How can cultural products have a negative impact on psychology?

Art, including music, has always been an important aspect of people's spiritual lives. Music can help people's emotions sublimate, happy and sad according to the music and lyrics. There are songs that have had a profound impact on listeners like Gloomy Sunday by Hungarian pianist, Reszõ Seress. But unfortunately, its influence is negative because it has caused many people to commit suicide because they are too sad.

The song "hit the curse"

Gloomy Sunday was composed in 1933 and released in 1935. The first singer to record this song was Pál Kalmár. After its release, the song immediately became famous not only in Hungary but also globally. Many singers have recorded this hit song, the most famous of which is Billie Holiday's version.

But perhaps musician Reszõ Seress himself did not expect that his song's commercial success would be a huge tragedy. Because of its melancholy melody and melancholy lyrics, it becomes a "hymn" to people who are carrying negative emotions.

Portrait of the father of music

The author composed this song on a Sunday afternoon as sad as the song's title, after he had just broken up with a memorable love affair. From a heartbreaking song, Gloomy Sunday's pessimistic lyrics touch the heart of anyone who is suffering and despairing. At that time, the Great Depression was still going on in Hungary, so people's lives were facing many difficulties in all aspects. The number of people who feel sympathy and comfort with the music is even greater.

Just like that, Gloomy Sunday gradually appeared in the stories of people who chose to take their own lives: A shoemaker quoted the lyrics of her suicide note, a girl in Vienna (Austria). ) committed suicide by jumping in the river while holding a sheet of music, a man shot himself in the head after telling relatives he was haunted by the lyrics, a woman in London (England) ) was drugged while listening to Gloomy Sunday. Dozens of people have committed suicide because of the negative impact of this song.

Before the terrifying influence of the hit song, the Hungarian government and a number of other countries had to issue warnings to the people and limit the propaganda of the song. In the UK and US, this song is even banned completely.

Musician Seress shared the following about his most famous work: "I stand in the midst of this deadly success as an accused man. This fame hurts me. I cried. with all the disappointments of the heart and it seems that many people have also found their own vulnerability in this song."

In 1968, Reszõ Seress committed suicide by jumping from a building. It is said that because he was always tormented by creating a "suicide song", indirectly taking many strange lives, he also came to this choice.

The record of Billie Holiday - the American female singer who made the song famous worldwide

Is it really "just a song"?

Despite being labeled by the media with many names such as "the song hit the curse", "the strange curse", but in fact, everyone understands that Gloomy Sunday does not have a curse or carry any puzzling mystery. The song has made listeners sad, miserable and even want to die simply because music has a great influence on the human psyche.

No one is happy, happy suicide because listening to Gloomy Sunday. All the people who were "killed" by the song were in an unstable psychological state and filled with sad and negative thoughts. Listening to a song as if speaking for their heart, containing pessimistic words, the urge to let go has pushed them into real negative action.

Gloomy Sunday or any sad song is never a direct cause of people who are depressed to commit suicide, but can still be an indirect agent "inciting" people to immerse themselves deeply in sadness, the dark side of life. me.

Negative energy from cultural and artistic products also creates dangerous harm like Gloomy Sunday

A century on, Gloomy Sunday is no longer banned and there are no more unfortunate stories surrounding it. But this classic, famous music in the most unexpected way will forever be an example of the influence of cultural products on the human psyche. That is something that should never be taken lightly.