CHAPTER 6

Each emotion has so many songs written about them because that is the basis behind music. Music is entertaining because of the emotions behind it and how much music can make you feel. 

Happiness is a pleasant emotion that people try to achieve that can be characterized with a better life and having a more positive outlook. 

Happiness can change your outlook on life, making everything seem more positive, looking more optimistically, like there is light shining in every situation. The song "Walking on Sunshine" shows how people become more positive and everything seems better because of a few things that may have caused that positive emotion.

Anger is a response to feeling like someone is threatening you in some way. People react to those emotions in different ways and it causes the different ranges of anger that we see in different people.

Anger happening by feeling threatened, or anger in many cases, can lead people to want to be "even" with someone, so you wish misfortune on them, rather than giving up on the aggression and arousal that comes with the emotion. This song shows how the idea of "revenge" can happen because of wishing misfortune on others because of how they are happy. 

Guilt and Shame are different levels of a similar emotion. Both are characterized with feeling bad for something, but shame spreads to the whole being and makes you feel bad about yourself in general, not just feel bad for the one action.

The shame she felt for her actions made her continue regretting them for years later, which shows the strength of emotions like shame. It is a stronger version of guilt and can last for years, affecting who you are and how you act. You can't change what happened in the past, but when your actions make you change how you think of yourself, it is a common wish.

Disgust is a strong feeling of dislike that leads to being repulsed by that object. With foods, you would stop eating it and with people, you wouldn't want to be around them for any reason.

(alternative song for disgust: "FDT (F*ck Donald Trump) Part 2" by YG feat G-Easy & Macklemore).

In "Jar of Hearts," simply the idea of getting closer to the person who scorned her, was too much making it so that she couldn't take even another step. With emotions as strong as that, where people keep themselves away from another, the songs end up stronger, but they are also harder to write about so songs about disgust can be harder to find.