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  Same overuse for Barber's Adagio for Strings, but that's more clearly melancholic, less ambiguous.
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  It’s like if a still life painting was music >
  
  I think it’s a beautiful piece. I regularly listen to this and agree that it isn’t sad and the overuse of it is kind of annoying. I’d say it’s slightly melancholic but when I hear it I visualise myself peacefully walking down a valley at sunrise. >
  
  Yeah, I never considered it depressing either. Just a reflective mood kind of piece. >
  
  I definitely get a sense of melancholy from No. 1, but I can understand your frustration about the overuse and misinterpretations. It's one of my favorite pieces of classical music, but I cope by slightly preferring No. 2 instead. >
  
  I have seen it put in happy and sad classical music playlist. It’s a very versatile piece of music. It’s slow and deliberate making it feel a bit melancholy. But it’s also sweet and simple making it very carefree. >
  
  I don't think sad is the correct interpretation of most of its uses in popular media. It's always more about the introspection moment. Even in Queens gambit, it seems sad and melancholy because the husband abandoned, but she's actually playing it so she can think. She's a right wreck without it in the same scene. >
  
  You reminded me how much I hate that piece of music.
  It's exceptionally boring music written by a composer famous for trailblazing the boring music genre. 
  I used to have a Pandora mix of Philip Glass, Max Richter, and other minimalist composers to play in the background when I was studying, and the fucking Gymnopedies would come up at least once an hour. Why are there so many recordings? Why is it constantly getting lumped into my contemporary playlist. 
  Fair play if you enjoy it. But that piece is garbage and Eric Satie is a bad person for writing it. >
  
  He wasn’t. Your opinion isn’t objective truth.