A MINOR, THE BITCH

A Minor, the fucking simplest key out of Western harmonic structure. It's the fucking key with a key signature of no sharps nor flats. It's the fucking key that you can play all notes (except the leading tone) on the white fucking keys. And, most importantly, it's the fucking key that gives you one of the induced strongest emotions (hence the uncensored obscene terms listed above).

Quoting Wikipedia (again),

シャルパンティエはこの調について「優しさや悲しさを表す」と述べている。マッテゾンはこの調を「嘆くような、品位のある、落ちついた性格をもっている」と述べている。

Yea, translations...

Charpentier said that about the key "that represents the sadness and tenderness." Mattheson said that the key and "have to lament, dignified, calm personality."

So, #Sadness, #Tenderness, #Lament are adjectives to describe A Minor. But in terms of the pitch, what qualities makes it so? In my opinion, it is rather interesting to consider the diatonic chords (chords build on diatonic notes) and their functions.

On the one side, C Major (III) represents calm and flowing, F Major (VI) represents passion and slightly emotional, G Major (VII) represents a lively and childish manner. On the other hand, chords like D Minor (iv) representing a mild crisis, controversies, and an emotional episode (Such as Dance In The Dark) and E Major/Minor (V/v) giving it the suspense before returning back to A Minor (hence the V -> I Cadence mentioned several days ago). Which, the key of A Minor is consists of various chords with different properties, and therefore making the key able to induce contrasts of emotions and feelings. Does it create the awe? Personally believes that major keys like A Major (The Edge of Glory) and E Major (Eh Eh, Nothing Else I Can Say) would do the job better than A Minor, but it really depends on subjective feelings. 

Compositions from Mother Monster, such as Bad Romance, Monster, and Electric Chapel are all in the key of A Minor. 

I once asked Mother Monster, via YouTube, that

Why is Bad Romance in the key of A Minor??

Obviously and as expected, this question wasn't answered. But I still believe that this question is worth pondering. 

Let's halt here for a sec for you to digest what I had just been fucking talking about...