There’s plenty of stories from other countries about the cunning hero outsmarting the fae or similar. Just that in America, the hero always wins vs other countries where there are also many stories where the hero gets killed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe, two of America’s most famous writers, both based their bodies of work on people paying the price of losing to temptation/sin. Although to be fair I couldn’t think of any popular songs about that.
I know it’s not a popular take, but I don’t like Poe or Hawthorne. I always felt like their shallow exploration of death/edgy topics really only appealed to the immature or unintelligent reader.
I can see their work on a shelf between The Nightmare Before Christmas and a Dashboard Confessional CD- maybe a Jr High textbook as well.
I wouldn’t use them as an example.
It’s unpopular because instead of just saying you don’t like them or personally think they lack depth you go straight to insulting their readers and fans.
I don’t like them, but they’re also bad and unintelligent. Those are objective. Sorry if someone not liking a vapid old guys who can’t write their way out of a paper bag makes you feel attacked.
That’s subjective not objective…
No. It’s objective. Objectively they are unimpressive. “Well that’s just your opinion man” isn’t a defence.
You clearly don’t know what the words mean. Someone is being impressed or unimpressed.
