For me, so-called angry music has never aroused feelings of real anger — quite the opposite, in fact. I’d have been far angrier in a world where you could only hear so-called happy music. “Angry music,” exposing as it did its author’s truest feelings, let me know I was not alone in my own feelings of frustration. Far from making me angry, it made me feel as if there was something positive I could do with my feelings.
