If you're looking for a simple sad song about getting over a memory of someone, you won't find it easily in today's country. When sad songs do come around today a lot of the time they spend so much time trying to make it catchy and radio friendly that they forget the purpose of it in the first place; to ease the pain for someone else, and the writer. Sad love songs written in big Nashville office buildings just aren't the same.
"Outta My Head" - Craig Campbell
This song tries to sound serious, yet to the casual listener who isn't paying much attention it sounds no different than the happy love songs. The chorus has so many "Yeahs" and "Girls" you probably wouldn't know the difference. This song sounds like sing-along pop, which is probably why it's big right now. I just don't get it. If you're gonna write a sad song the very least you could do is make it sound like you wrote with actual feeling. If the only reason you have a depressing song out is because you did too many happy songs in a row, just go ahead and keep making happy stuff because a sad song with no feeling is just pointless.
"Sweet Savannah" - Shooter Jennings
This song tells a story. If I was a guy who couldn't get over a long hard relationship, I would want to listen to this. You could tell that the listener would pay attention because real thought and feelings were put into here and it seems real. The first song just used a gimmicky hook to make people listen. I don't get why songs like this can't be on the radio. I can't believe a song needs to have a certain amount of happiness to be accepted as a sad song these days.
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