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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe, two of America's most famous writers, both based their bodies of work on people paying the price of losing to temptation/sin. Although to be fair I couldn't think of any popular songs about that.
I know it's not a popular take, but I don't like Poe or Hawthorne. I always felt like their shallow exploration of death/edgy topics really only appealed to the immature or unintelligent reader.
I can see their work on a shelf between The Nightmare Before Christmas and a Dashboard Confessional CD- maybe a Jr High textbook as well.
I wouldn't use them as an example.
It's unpopular because instead of just saying you don't like them or personally think they lack depth you go straight to insulting their readers and fans.
Thats only because they write with emotion in mind, in my opinion. They are trying to evoke feelings and cause dissonance, not lay out an intellectual thesis on the subject.
Im sure they can't hold a candle to your own peerless prose, king.
Well, the problem isn't that your take is unpopular, it's that it's confusing. You say they only appeal to the unintelligent or immature but you also say you don't like them. I'm sure you can see the contradiction.