The third Monday in January has been cataloged as “Blue Monday” or the saddest day of the year, but many of us remember the mythical New Order song.
Mexico City, January 18 (AsMéxico) .– We are in the middle of January, it is Monday and, to top it all, this year we are facing a global pandemic to which we see no end. Like every third Monday in January, today is “Blue Monday”, also known as the saddest day of the year. And although it is a somewhat taxing idea that also began with an advertising campaign in 2005, social networks always echo it.
But today we leave ourselves with sadness, pessimism and agony due to the third wave of coronavirus to remember the song that, without intending it, has also imposed the day classified as the saddest in the world: “Blue Monday” was the song that consolidated New Order as one of the great alternative rock and electronic groups in the 80’s.
It was the year 1980 when New Order was born, a band formed by the members of Joy Division who decided to change their name when their singer Ian Curtis committed suicide. On their first album the British kept the style we heard in Joy Division, but on the second they opted for a more genre dance that made them world famous.
The only #BlueMonday it should be this.
New Order ????????????????https://t.co/aGCQrhKxQO– TuristaGalactico (Y Come Pan) ???????????????????????????????????????? (@Y_come_pan) January 18, 2021
The best-known song on the album, “Blue Monday”, gave an important boost to electronics, which at that time was in the process of change due to the growth of dance music. Today it is still a reference song when we recall the music of the 80s and the truth is that, no matter how many years pass and no matter how much electronic music has sounded in discos or on our Spotify lists, the melody of New Order will always be unforgettable .
But leaving aside the history of the group and going back to the third day of January, those of us who see “Blue Monday” in trends on social networks again have two options: to take the saddest day of the year to the letter and let ourselves be infected by one imposed sadness or listen to the New Order song and choose the mood that suits us.
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