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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is D Minor the Saddest of All Possible Keys?
Nigel Tofnell said that D minor is the saddest of all possible keys. I think Joni Mitchell sounded better in the 80s and 90s than in the 60s because she lost the ability to get up so high. There are certain things, certain type melodies, like there are certain minor keys like aolian, which is natural minor, that has a very melancholy sound to it.
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