Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have found that today&aposs pop music is more depressing than it was 30 years ago, specifically 20% more depressing.
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All right, Rob, you think music has become more depressing?
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The real reasons are more depressing than "pressure of work".
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The news coming from Britain grows more depressing every day.
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It's even more depressing to know that they might not.
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In other, more depressing news, Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer again.
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Is there a more depressing sight at 1.30 in the morning?
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It's like Facebook's year in review, only somehow more depressing. Enjoy!
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The book ends on a much more depressing note for Camille.
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The Red Light District in Amsterdam is more depressing than titillating.
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In my day to day, the results were a little more depressing.
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But then there was the dark, more depressing side of the job.
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Doesn't get more depressing than a candle-lit dinner for one with Alexa.
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One far more depressing and dangerous than the dystopian America he currently portrays.
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That failure only seemed more depressing as I realized it was only 6 p.m.
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There's nothing more depressing than having to explain why certain jokes just aren't funny.
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But the more impressive the Democrats' case is, the more depressing the reality becomes.
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Former Sen Saxby Chambliss in front of him advising Equifax is more depressing. pic.twitter.
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Every year will bring more depressing news of things machines are better than us at.
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The tweets were an important and depressing harbinger of even more depressing things to come.
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As frustrating as Mr. de Maizière's article was, Mr. Schulz's response was even more depressing.
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Perhaps the only thing more depressing than Hanson's return has been the trend in "progressive" responses.
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Stay tuned to the TSA's social media accounts for more depressing stories to wrap up 2016.
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"We don't want it to be any more depressing than it's already gonna be," he wrote.
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I think the news coming out of Washington, it's hard to imagine it being more depressing.
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Perhaps even more depressing is the realization that this current retread plague won't be ending anytime soon.
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What's maybe wilder and certainly more depressing is that Singer might skate through this unscathed as well.
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The second chart details the staffing at newspapers -- and it's even more depressing that the circulation numbers.
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Even more depressing is what happens when you explore the identity division through the lens of demography.
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Reading about Shields's lust for Pippa Middleton ranks among the more depressing literary experiences of my life.
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Is there anything more depressing than ending a long day at work with… a Trader Joe's frozen burrito?
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We worried that if she kept starving herself, she'd be sent to a more depressing, regular nursing home.
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To make things even more grave, the ghostly form of Corsola has an even more depressing evolution — Cursola.
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More depressing than the continuation of looting despite a year of coverage, the trend seems to be spreading.
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Which makes it all the more depressing how many of the deportations of families have already gone through.
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Think the GM commercial where an assembly-line robot contemplates suicide, which many saw as more depressing than amusing.
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But in certain lights, I find the joke itself to be even more depressing than the world it's mocking.
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Chris Martin argues that throwing up trade barriers, dismantling NAFTA and building walls will only bring back more depressing days.
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On "Interlude – Sad," Jackson talks of watering a "spiritual garden" ("There's nothing more depressing than having everything and feeling sad").
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We're reaching the pinnacle (rock bottom?) of this Charles Oakley melodrama—as if things could get any crazier (more depressing).
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If you think about it, there are more depressing ways to spend your Valentine's Day than by going to Hooters.
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It's weird and somehow even more depressing than the sitcom-turned-bloodbath that set the internet aflame quite literally yesteryear.
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Even more depressing is that the president's budget eliminates NASA's Office of Education just when we need it the most.
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Taken too far, though, they become just another type of work, one made even more depressing by the facade of play.
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Sometimes, the dread of knowing an inevitably dark and gloomy winter is coming can be more depressing than the season itself.
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Kesha's legal battle to free herself from Dr. Luke, the producer she says raped her, grows more depressing by the week.
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" While the arguments for the lenses were promising, the lenses themselves made "the already miserable life of a chicken more depressing.
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You've learned a valuable lesson: Staying too long at the fair can often be more depressing than not going at all.
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But in keeping with the troubled lassitude that marked the whole season, the consequences were muted, and more depressing than violent.
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O&aposNEILL: I just thought (inaudible) saying that music is 20% more depressing than it was 30 years, but it&aposs kind of weird for me because life is 30% more depressing that it was 20 years ago, so I don&apost know, there&aposs a lot of things -- people write about their exes and all that stuff.
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To make this even more depressing, it would actually make sense within the larger framework of what we know about Harry Potter.
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The reality is much more depressing: these bodies are untethered to a star, so they're doomed to dance around the void solo.
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In more depressing terms -- if you earn $100k per year, this is like you dropping less than $3,000 for a new house!!!
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IT WOULD be hard to imagine a more depressing moment than the first year after the end of the second world war.
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When we get back, I eat my sad oatmeal and raspberries that I brought from home and even more depressing office coffee.
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"It seems to be more depressing, as some women are there for years, waiting for years, until an arranged marriage," she said.
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Truly, it's a sad day and an even more depressing end to one of the most ambitious smartphone experiments of the last decade.
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In one of the more depressing and hopeless turns of late 2016, Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84.
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Even more depressing, the flashbacks to 2015 in which Sophie Giroux (Abigail Hardingham) is shacking up with press officer, Adam Gettrick (Derek Riddell).
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What happened to baby Zeke on Ozark season 2 is one of the more depressing predicaments of the Netflix series, returning March 27.
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In the Russian feature-film industry, which subsists on a cocktail of state and private funding, things are at once looser and more depressing.
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Scott Adsit plays an umpire in one scene, which means he has officially been in something more depressing than Season 3 of Moral Orel.
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The caption that leads the film says that none of the troopers survived the initial assault, which makes this story all the more depressing.
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Ross Douthat Recent political history has offered few spectacles more depressing than the acquiescence of leading Republican politicians to the rise of Donald Trump.
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It's also a counterweight to Black Mirror's more depressing fare, which at times feels like its end goal is to instill despair about the future.
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Poking fun at their shallowness and phoniness saves us from dwelling on a more depressing thought: such deliberations will determine the future of the nation.
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Another of the "Girls Next Door," Holly Madison, offered a much more depressing version of life in the mansion in a 2015 tell-all book.
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The days were filled with music, laughter, exploration, and sun, which made coming back to Philly during the dead of winter all the more depressing.
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As for the Little Match Girl, literature has never provided a more depressing New Year's Eve, or a more compelling argument for child-labor laws.
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This was all the more depressing given what Syndergaard represented for the Mets: a bright future after years of futility, the fulfillment of long-frustrated dreams.
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While it's quite a bit more depressing — it's about an alcoholic former sitcom star who is also a horse — it's an engaging and surprisingly deep show.
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE; TRUMP/PENCE 220—these placards dot the highway and continue into town, where they become gradually more depressing.
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Directors Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block have made a documentary exploring exactly that question, and the answer is much more depressing that you might have imagined.
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The reliability of Cards Against Humanity as an activity most people will enjoy only makes it more depressing to those of us immune to its charms.
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Bret Stephens Of all of the dismaying and disgusting details of the Harvey Weinstein saga, none is more depressing than this: It has so few heroes.
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On the other hand, PEN22, High Fidelity, Harlots, The Mindy Project, and Shrill all offer some lighter alternatives to Hulu's more popular—and more depressing—programming.
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At 26, though—when you're still chasing after the same boy (now man)—asking yourself what you're trying to escape, and why, gets a bit more depressing.
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Here's where it gets even more depressing: I rarely heard them frame any of this work and stress in terms of future success or even just stability.
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The more depressing thought, however, is that one of them will ascend to the office of president and this country will be victimized by his or her judgments.
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But the thought of returning the way I had come — wading a murky creek and huffing up a rutted cow path choked with wood ticks — was more depressing.
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It's one more depressing sign that Senate Republicans and the Trump administration are not really interested in finding what did or did not happen between Kavanaugh and Blasey.
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Smaller provisions buried deep in the bill — like the treatment of carried interest — simply provide more depressing evidence that this measure is not about helping the middle class.
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But in my experience, what's even more depressing than gross weather is when the sun finally starts shining, the temperatures start to climb, and I still feel like crap.
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Research hasn't proved that there is any one day more depressing than all the others, but it's actually a PR stunt that has unfortunately cemented itself into modern culture.
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Embedded within Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan is something more depressing and desperate than merely the idea that modern America falls short of some past Golden Age.
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Forty-one percent of women think feminism unfairly blames men, and the numbers get even more depressing when it comes to what types of candidates men and women would support.
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Robert Andrew Powell's reporting painted an even more depressing picture: MBU's owners, all three of them, resided in other states and countries and had totally failed to engage local politicos.
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It's hard for me to imagine many places in America more depressing than the overcrowded all-female wings of local jails and prisons I've visited over the last few months.
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Is there a more depressing story than that of Alan Turing, the British genius who helped beat the Nazis but then was forced to undergo chemical castration for being gay?
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Venus is already sensitive as hell due to the retrograde (at least, during the first square), but Saturn's shitty vibe is just going to make things feel like even more depressing.
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"One of the more depressing aspects of my adult life is how true that piece still is," Hurlburt says of her 2002 essay on the left's lack of foreign policy institutions.
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If there&aposs anything more depressing than irrationally imagining your own premature death while you literally incubate a new life, it&aposs calculating your own financial worth in such paltry terms.
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It gets even more depressing after this since he was the second employee that we had to fire for their issues with drinking on the job in a two-week period.
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And in fact, two versions of the scene exist: One with the classic freeze-frame and the other where the camera actually follows the car down, which is slightly more depressing. 17.
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Even more depressing than Child Death's anxious atmospheres, "ain't worried about nothing," captures a frazzled headspace where you can only do the opposite of what the title suggests, just sit and sulk.
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More depressing is the fact that since Fetterman, 46, became mayor, life in Braddock has actually improved: Crime rates have decreased, an urgent care center opened, and there's now a youth program.
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The real story—as depicted in Neon Rated's incredibly funny, bleak-as-hell depiction of a talented athlete and severely abused woman's life—is a lot more complicated, and a lot more depressing.
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"There's nothing more depressing than only being who you are, some small work that's the result of circumstance," Lila, still a teenager, tells him in an echo of Gary's own Émile Ajar confession.
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Shouldn't they embody a more extreme version of our humanity, to live lives simultaneously more lavish and more depressing than we ever could, so we can live vicariously from a safe distance or something?
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Just in the nick of time to save me from myself, as I was about to start the second season of Friends from College — which A. warned me is even more depressing than the first.
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Viewers might find horror a little less cathartic and a little more depressing if they actually liked every eviscerated victim on-screen, and were fruitlessly rooting for them, then watching them ignominiously lose their lives.
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With only one episode left, it's hard to kick the feeling that even more depressing news awaits us, that full disclosure on this case will not bring the assumed relief we once thought it would.
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It also makes me realise that manufacturing rapport with other people is kind of depressing, and all the more depressing when you think about the fact that we do this on some level every day.
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Read more: It only took the Miami Dolphins 30 minutes of awful football to make a case as the worst team in the NFL this yearThings would get decidedly more depressing in the second half.
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What's far more depressing -- and corrosive to our broader culture -- is that while some people in the Michigan audience groaned when Trump suggested John Dingell might be in hell, plenty of other laughed and applauded.
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MURDOCH: I listen to ACDC or Ice Cube, yes, that&aposs pretty -- because I am throwing stuff around, yes, but here&aposs a reason why music is more depressing, there&aposs no more life experience, Greg.
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Now comes even more depressing news: "There is nowhere in this country where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment," according to an annual report released Thursday.
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This decision could have very easily ended up being nothing more than a permanent digital reminder of one of life's more depressing failures, but thankfully for everyone involved she said yes, god help both of these people.
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The creators behind grimdark superhero narratives sell their stories as being more weighty or impressive than lighter films like Ant-Man and the Wasp because they're more realistic — which is to say, more violent and more depressing.
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The rare overcast—yet completely rainless—sky on the day of my visit was all the more depressing when driving around the curbless suburban streets of the San Fernando Valley, which are littered with mostly dried-out foxtails.
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The only thing more depressing than the fact that the beer giant thinks that $12,000 is enough to cover a year's worth of rent is the fact that they know millennials are cash-strapped enough to bite on this.
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It was a dreary afternoon, and for Giants fans clinging to be joyous memories of Super Bowl victories in 2008 and 2012, the end of the Eli era will be far more depressing than a day of soaking rain.
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The mewling response from Democratic leaders made the other major political story of the week even more depressing: Another slate of primary wins for Joe Biden, the consummate centrist Democrat, all but assuring that he will be Democratic nominee for president.
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It finally gave Jesse the ending he deserved (and the ending that Gilligan has been teasing for Jesse since the finale aired in 2013) but it turns out that El Camino almost had a different—and way more depressing—finale.
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" He nodded at nominee Manchester by the Sea as "the only thing from 2016 that was more depressing than 2016," and joked that Meryl Streep's role as the "world's worst opera singer" in Florence Foster Jenkins "turned down performing at Trump's inauguration.
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While all of this is more depressing than surprising, documenting and exploring these strategies is important for understanding how doctors get through these difficulties, especially because the interviewees also said it was important for physicians to be prepared to handle such situations ahead of time.
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Few things are more depressing than Christmas bar people, however, if you must go out, take a look at what will be open—odds are if a bar is open that night they'll be advertising that shit—and pick one that you think suits you.
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And do I really need to see any more depressing photos of longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, whose sad, wide eyes make me so uncomfortable that I want to look away, as if I am passing in front of something that is none of my business?
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In Slate, the writer Jessica Winter called Instagram "even more depressing than Facebook," and described an "envy spiral" in which every beautiful picture raises the stakes for everyone else, so that in time the place came to be seen as fit only for the most luxurious shots.
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And it's to Smokeasac and Astasio's credit that they've crafted instrumentals as scuzzily anthemic as any of the beats Peep hopped on while he was alive—I can imagine no fate more depressing for these vocals than to be appended to distant echoes of the sound he inspired.
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This well-meaning American exceptionalism, with its cutesy recycling of a phrase ("irrational exuberance") meant as a critique of the market by, of all people, Alan Greenspan, strikes me as even more depressing than the barbaric version of American exceptionalism put forth on a regular basis by Donald Trump.
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" The 2202 Annual Report to Congress had a more depressing observation: "The IRS has steadily decreased the availability of face-to-face assistance at Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs), leaving taxpayers with few other options for communicating with the IRS, such as writing a letter or making a phone call.
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Wednesday's latest trailer melds all six new dystopian realities together in one existential gut punch, promising the season four release will be an even more depressing way to spend your New Year's Eve than cramming yourself into Times Square like a human sardine just to watch the ball drop.
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That number is staggering, and even more depressing when you consider the 42.2 million people, including 6.4 million children, living without enough to eat in the U.S. According to Hazel Technology's CEO Aidan Mouat, the company's BerryBrite and FruitBrite products were developed with farmers and food waste top of mind.
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One of the more depressing aspects of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was the assumption that, if you weren't able to get any of the immediately-sold-out tickets to the London show, you just weren't going to be able to experience the first new Harry Potter material in years.
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The odd thing is that the person I'm least upset with right now is Louis C.K. It is far more depressing to watch his apologists (Black, by the way, claims his concern for C.K. is actually a concern for the #MeToo movement) prove their inability to comprehend any of what we've been fighting for.
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One of the more depressing pages on the internet is the "Our Members" page for the Financial Services Forum, a group representing the eight largest financial institutions headquartered in the U.S. Each firm is represented by its CEO, and seven of the eight CEOs are white men between the ages of 58 and 64.
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In a move that, for some, might actually be more depressing than just scrolling through your feed, Facebook and Instagram will soon feature dashboards that can show you a breakdown of your daily activity on the apps, and how long, on average, you've spent on each that week on your phone, BuzzFeed News reports.
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Though the second season did touch on more serious issues, such as Maura's run-in with TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) at a cis women's-only retreat, or the implied murder of Gittel (Maura's presumedly deceased trans aunt, during a Nazi-era Berlin flashback), Maura's personal struggles always seemed to stop short of actually showing some of the more depressing realities of trans life.
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The fact that most of these hateful messages are allegedly coming from American metalheads is even more depressing, but is indictative of just how many knuckleheads in this country are currently afraid that evil social justice warrior feminazis are comin' for their black metals, the same way Obama is definitely comin' for their guns and that Donald Trump is definitely a sane and well-reasoned choice for President.
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Flavor Flav could not remember contestants' names, so he gave them nicknames based on various biographical details; Pollard was born in Utica, becoming "New York," Patterson was so popular that she later starred in her own spinoff, I Love New York, and two subsequent spin-offs, New York Goes To Hollywood and New York Goes To Work, both of which followed her fledgling acting career and were less memorable for the sole reason that they were far more depressing.
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