I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard

Glide Magazine has a review of I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds:

Depressing songs don't always need overtly depressing lyrics (hence the absence of lyrics in this book) since the horror can come from various musical missteps. . . One of the most egregious is the brain concussion modulation, or BCM.
BCMs are found near the end of practically every 1990s power love ballad sung by the Big Three: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston," each of whom has a song in the book. It makes me happy to learn that someone actually coined a phrase to describe the horrible, yodeling, syllable-splitting, emotionally fervid, intensity tantrum, or HYSSEFIT, because my acronym would have been just too long.

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