User blog comment:CykeP/Negativity in Western VOCALOID Music/@comment-26192563-20160223102452

The thing I've noticed about English songs is that it seems to be a lot easier to write negative songs instead of positive songs. Perhaps it's the language itself, or the general aversion to anything cheerful on the basis of it being 'cheesy'. Words like dreary, melancholy, monochrome are associated with negative emotions and in songs it seems to be more popular to use negative conotations because there's a wider and more elegant vocabulary than words with positive conotations.

Listening to Chinese vocaloid songs and comparing them to English vocaloid songs, the problem in my opinion again seems to be the very nature of the English language. Mandarin songs have a huge vocabulary range for both positive and negative conotations and still sound good and catchy. However, positive English songs are harder to pull off and even harder to make it 'not cheesy' due to the negative vs positive differences in vocabulary range. At least, that's what I've observed.

And of course, it's much more easier to write songs about suicide or depression or sad events due to the numerous number of analogy/metaphor/simile choices in comparison to, say, acing a test.

This is just my viewpoint on the overwhelming amount of negative Engloid songs vs positive ones, based on what I've listened to in the Chinaloid and Engloid song choices.

Also yes I'd like to have some cheerful and motivational Engloid songs in my playlist as well, but it's surprisingly difficult to pull off without sounding fake, insincere, or cheesy.