Why is the lyrics so sad but 'Happy New Year' still makes people want to listen?

By the beginning of the year, in both the East and the West, people want to come with joy and excitement, as a forecast of good fortune and good luck at the beginning of the year. But why is the song 'Happy New Year' so sad, still making people want to listen?

Recently, a study conducted by the MindMovers Psychology Clinic (located in Sydney, Australia) explained why sometimes we 'don't like' or 'fear' the New Year comes. Accordingly, there are those who eagerly welcome the New Year, and there are those who . no.

The mentality of Westerners is no different from Eastern people; there are also people eagerly awaiting New Year's Eve, waiting for a long holiday with a series of parties; And there are also people who are "afraid" of New Year's Eve , afraid of a long holiday with lots of invisible pressure. This has even become a topic of psychological research.

One thing in common, is that the New Year is always portrayed as the most important moment , with a lot of uplifting emotions, when people watch fireworks, toast, toast, to play music, to laugh. say and congratulate . The general psychological default for that moment must be the most beautiful expectations, when people stand before a new year has just opened before their eyes.

At the sacred New Year's Eve, there are people who are happy with their hopes for something new, and on the contrary, there are those who suddenly feel a strange inner calm, they are not happy, eagerly awaiting the new year but there are many traits mixed, contradictory, busy .

ABBA's 'Happy New Year' has 'hit' the mentality of a group of people who always silently wander about before the upcoming New Year.

Psychologists have affirmed that such two opposing psychological groups exist at the beginning of the new year as an interesting and very characteristic difference of human being in the face of the twisting and turning times of time. space.

And surely, it is also a compelling reason to understand why 'Happy New Year' - the song is so familiar by the legendary ABBA group, despite having very sad lyrics, but throughout the decades is still one of the most heard songs on New Year's Eve, in both the East and the West.

ABBA's 'Happy New Year' has 'hit' the psychology of a group of people who always silently wander and quietly 'sadly' after a new year has just opened.

'Happy New Year ' is the most popular song of the legendary band ABBA, included in the 1980 album released 'Super Trouper' . Initially, in the process of making the album, the song had a very interesting name, both humorous and bold nature of the Christmas - New Year, it was 'Daddy Don't Get Drunk on Christmas Day' (Ba Oh, don't get drunk on Christmas day).

Although it was recorded and included in the album 'Super Trouper' since 1980, it was not until 1999 that this popular song was released on the single because the song was so successful and the public's need to listen to this song separately. New year occasion is too big, even at the time . 19 years after its debut.

So far, no happy new year song has been able to overcome the success of 'Happy New Year' on a worldwide scale.

Over the past three decades, the melody continues to stir people's hearts whenever they witness the New Year's Eve, the transition period between the old year and the new year. The melody of the song sounds warm, gentle, evokes excitement, and in fact its content also sends many feelings of the hearts when standing in the flow of time.

'Happy New Year' is not filled with joy, love and hope like many other New Year songs. The song is not 'superficially' calling on people to cheer up, believe, then all good things will come .

'Happy New Year' on the contrary, somewhat pessimistic, carries a typical sadness of the human heart when faced with the endless flow of time. Every time the melody of 'Happy New Year' plays, we feel like our hearts settle down with an unnamed, indescribable and hard-to-describe sadness that is very characteristic of New Year's Eve.

A year passed with so many joys and sorrows, ups and downs, fluctuations . Facing the constant movement and change of time, how can people avoid the feeling of barbarism, excitement, sadness? .

The melody of that song continues to stir people's hearts whenever they witness the New Year's Eve.

The lyrics of 'Happy New Year' are actually somewhat gloomy with the general idea of ​​a New Year's morning, the young couple sat together after a noisy night party with friends to welcome New Year's Eve. Looking back on the remnants of the fun that ended with firecrackers, bottles . they felt a bit sad and empty.

The party was over, leaving only the couple and a solitary, cold morning. They remember what happened in the old year, happy and sad . They worry about the future, who knows what will happen in ten years, what is ahead .

At this time, when there was only 'half' left , they just congratulated the new year together most sincerely in such a setting and mood. They wish each other to have dreams and wills to fulfill their dreams, because without dreams and wills, we will have no motivation to continue to lead in this life.

The sadness in the lyrics is conveyed through beautiful and deep melody that makes listeners feel both happy and sad aftertaste, both disappointment and hope, not too tragic but also not 'optimistic ' before. reality and future.

Listening to 'Happy New Year' every New Year has become such a familiar affair for many of us that even listening to the melody feels a repetitive, hectic feeling. And no matter how many years we listen to it, and how many more years will be heard, many people still enjoy listening to 'Happy New Year'.

Please introduce the temporary part of the song 'Happy New Year':

No more champagne / Fireworks / Left us, you and I / Feeling empty, feeling sad / Over the party / The gloomy morning / Not like yesterday / It's time let us say .

Happy New Year / Wishing we all shared the same wish / About a world where every neighbor is a friend / Happy New Year / Wishing we all have hopes and wills to try / Because otherwise we would probably lie down and give up / Both you and me.

Sometimes I see / A whole new world bravely steps forward / I see that world rise strong / From the ashes of life / Yeah, people are stupid / Just think you will be fine / Le step, feet of clay / Unaware that he was off course / Still trying to move on at all costs .

For me now / All the dreams we had before / Were faded, nothing left / Like a firecracker on the floor / Went a decade (song released in 1980 - caption) / In 10 years / Who knows what we'll find / Who knows what awaits us / In 1989 . (the song has a temporal relationship with the time of the song's release - note ).

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