Music these days.

Listening to some of the most recent music of these days, I feel that we're missing out on a lot of the suave, cool, and more romantic side of music from the past.

Take for instance, Andy Williams, writing Love Story (Where Do I Begin) in 1969. The song is so passionate, a soliloquy of a guy desperately describing his love of the woman he loves; at the end, the guy says how the woman he loves will always be there for him, and there's a happy feeling for him, seeing that he has someone in what could be described as a "fairy-tale" relationship.

Now fast forward to modern music. What do we see? The closest songs I can think of that describe something like it, would be songs like Beyonce's "Irreplaceable", or Timbaland ft. One Republic's "Apologize." However, these would be much more on the depressing side; both sides talk about how the relationship breaks up, there's no chance for making-up, there's cheating within relationships, and the perfect line to explain all this, "It's too late to apologize."

This made me think. Why has the popular music of our time changed from optimistic relationships and fairy-tale love of the '60s-'70s to the breaking-up, pessimistic fighting of our modern R&B, Pop, and Rap music?

I miss the old days. Not only is the music more melodic and passionate, but I can't help to feel that modern music is based purely around how loud your bass can go and throw in some drum beats.

I like drums, but music shouldn't be just that.