New Study Says Music Is More Depressing Now Posted by Joseph Lee on 08.28.2012 Because of a slower tempo… AV Club reports that a new study says that popular music in America is getting more depressing. This comes after studies that said music was getting louder and more boring. A study published by the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity And The Arts looked at over a thousand top 40 songs from five decades, and found that more recent songs have used minor…