"Black Sunday", also called "Melancholy Sunday", is a piece of music written by Hungarian pianist Rullance Charles in 1933 after his love failed. The song describes an unfortunate man's inability to bring his loved ones back to him. The song has an extremely sad mood. It is said that more than 100 people committed suicide one after another after listening to this song. It is known as "The Devil's Invitation". For a time, a mysterious atmosphere of terror enveloped Europe and America.
It is reported that the United States had not completely escaped the shadow of the Great Depression triggered by the stock market crash in 1929, and fell into a severe economic recession again between 1937 and 1938. This has brought considerable despair to a large number of unemployed people and their families. This sentiment rippled through society and led to the music's rapid popularity in the United States. Many Americans who committed suicide due to the stock market crash were linked to the popularity of this music. Therefore, radio stations in the United States, Britain, France, Spain and other countries held a special meeting for this purpose, calling on European and American countries to boycott "Black Sunday" . After that, all countries around the world began to destroy information about this piece of music, and the piece was banned for 13 years. As for the composer's own motivation for writing the music, even psychoanalysts and psychologists cannot give a satisfactory explanation.
Some experts remind everyone that when it comes to the so-called "death music", it is best to face it naturally. Don't listen deliberately out of curiosity, let alone be afraid because you have heard it before. After all, this is just a relatively desolate song. Just a lyrical piece.
“It’s not the music that’s wrong, the key is how you listen to it.” Psychological experts believe that “death music” is not as scary as the legend says, and there may be some suicide incidents that coincide with it. Coupled with the malicious hype of some people, the effect of "spreading rumors" is exaggerated.
Nowadays, some people suffer from mental illness due to listening to this kind of music. The main reason is the negative psychological implications on the "Death Music" web page and some rumors. Faced with the fact that more and more students are addicted to the stimulation of searching for "death music" in the online world, Dr. Du pointed out that many students are currently psychologically fragile and lack the proper ability to distinguish. She warned everyone to stay away from online garbage and be cautious when choosing online music.
Excerpts from the lyrics: Sundays of despair/I spend my time shrouded in shadow/My mind is made up/I want to end it all/Soon this place will be filled with flowers and sad prayers/I won’t let it They cry/I will let them know that I left happily/Death is not a dream/Because I caress you in death/With the last breath of my soul...
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1. Author and creative background of Gloomy Sunday
Rezs? Seress , born in Hungary in 1899. Seress is a self-taught pianist who aspires to become a famous composer in Paris. However, luck does not seem to favor him. Of course, this is also because he doesn't play the piano very well. Although Seress insisted on his ideals, his fiancée disagreed with him. Finally one afternoon, the two had a conversation, and his fiancée left angrily.
On a Sunday not long after the quarrel, Seress stayed in his apartment, sitting in front of the piano, staring at the Paris sky with a sad face. The gray sky was covered with dark clouds, and then heavy rain fell. Seeing this situation, Seress murmured to himself: "What a gloomy Sunday." Suddenly, his inspiration suddenly appeared, and his fingers began to play on the piano. He started playing, and thirty minutes later, he finished "Gloomy Sunday." [Szomorú vasárnap, English translation Gloomy Sunday]
With high expectations, Seress sent the song to a music publishing company, but his hopes were disappointed. The company returned his work and attached a letter that read: "Not because it is a melancholy tune, but because of the soul-stirring despair revealed in the piece. I thought it was This is not good for anyone listening. "The first failure did not deter Seress. After several twists and turns, a publisher in Budapest accepted his work, and this time his music could finally be released to the world. "Melancholy Sunday" was first released as a performance version. Seress himself wrote the lyrics. Later, the Hungarian poet László Jávor wrote the lyrics for the song, which was sung by the female singer Hernadi Judit. Sam M. Lewis translated Jávor's lyrics and named it "Gloomy Sunday", which was sung by black female singer Billie Holiday, which is now the most popular English version.
"Gloomy Sunday", just like its original name - Gloomy Sunday, seems to have an irresistible magical power of depression. Since its launch, suicides have occurred one after another, even all over the world, with the death toll reaching one hundred people. So much so that people at the time called it a "suicide song." The worst trouble was in Hungary. After investigating numerous suicides related to "Melancholy Sunday", the police in Budapest believed that the situation was serious, and finally the Hungarian government announced a ban on the song. The British B.B.C radio station also banned this song, and the United States and France even discussed it.
Seress really did not expect that such a result would occur. His original purpose of writing this song was to win back his fiancée's heart, but it actually had the opposite effect. His ex-fiancee committed suicide by taking poison shortly after the release of "Melancholy Sunday" and the day after Seress contacted her. There were a few words written on the paper left beside her - "Melancholy Sunday".
What caused these tragedies is still unclear to the world. Unfortunately, Seress, the composer of "Melancholy Sunday", also committed suicide on a winter day in 1968. He was nearly seventy years old that year, but he still jumped from a building in Budapest, drawing a blood-black end to the story.
2. Victim of Gloomy Sunday
Berlin: A young man asked the orchestra to play "Gloomy Sunday". When he got home that night, he complained that the melody kept playing. Haunted in his mind, he ended his life with a revolver.
Berlin: A week after the band incident, a female shop assistant hanged herself in her apartment. The police found loose sheets of music for "Gloomy Sunday" in the dead girl's bedroom.
Rome: A beggar hummed "Gloomy Sunday". After a newsboy heard it, he stopped his bicycle, walked over and gave all the money he had to the beggar, and then jumped from a nearby bridge. Go down and commit suicide.
London: A woman was found dead in her home by a neighbor. The cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates [a sedative]. The neighbor found out that the music was played at maximum volume and on repeat. "Gloomy Sunday".
New York: An old man over eighty years old jumped from the seventh-floor window of his apartment while singing a wailing melody.
New York: After a young and beautiful female typist committed suicide by burning gas, her suicide note specified "Gloomy Sunday" as the farewell music at her funeral.
New York: A 14-year-old girl who drowned herself was found clutching a copy of the sheet music of "The Suicide Song".
By the way, the reason why this song became so popular in the United States has a lot to do with the social environment there at the time. At that time, the United States had not completely escaped the shadow of the Great Depression triggered by the stock market crash in 1929, and fell into a severe economic recession again in 1937-38. This has brought considerable despair to a large number of unemployed people and their families. This sentiment rippled through society and lingered for years to come. Therefore, during this period, people can easily resonate with the sad and depressed mood rendered in the song.
In fact, the "Era of Great Despair" sixty years ago produced a number of melancholy songs as profoundly influential as "Gloomy Sunday".