Nobody worries about kids listening
to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and
loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most;
and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been
listening to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives.

Author: Nick Hornby