"Plenty of the ones I've heard are sad too. From my world, I mean. Songs about wars, about losing people to the sea. It's the kind of emotion that inspires some really moving music."

But, point noted about the lyrics contrasting with the music itself. Most of the ballads and other sorrowful tunes he knows have a melody that matches the words. Hm. "But in those cases, like the ones you're talking about, maybe they like the contrast. Maybe that's a thing people from Earth are into now. It's cool to see how other worlds and time periods do things."