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We're all familiar with what happens when a writer's personal problems start to intrude upon their work — characters are killed off left and right, plots are resolved either in a depressing fashion or not at all and the worldview espoused by the work as a whole seems much bleaker than it was before. But what happens when the opposite happens? Whether by dint of marriage, the birth of a child, the author finding religion or some other cause, the author now finds themselves in a much happier place than they were before. And, hardly unexpectedly, this starts to bleed into their work, which becomes Lighter and Softer and much more optimistic. Just as Creator Breakdown isn't necessarily a bad thing from an artistic standpoint (many artists produce their best work while feeling down in the dumps), this trope isn't necessarily a good thing either: feeling happy and self-satisfied can often lead to an artist becoming complacent and unwilling to push themselves creatively. On the other hand, a sunnier disposition may result in an author cutting down on the Wangst and producing something more accessible. This is the Opposite Trope to Creator Breakdown and, just as with that trope, Word of God examples are required for it to qualify. Keep in mind that Creator Breakdown and Creator Recovery may be opposites, but are not mutually exclusive, and it's not uncommon for both things to happen at the same time in various aspects of a creator's life. For example, an artist might recover from a physical illness that negatively impacted their ability to make works, but develop a mental illness that makes the works they are doing weird and depressing in tone; an artist might split from a toxic relationship but channel their replenished creativity into Muse Abuse revenge scenarios; and becoming rich can remove an artist from a stressful material situation but also give them a lot more money to spend on addictive drugs. See also Tone Shift, Lighter and Softer, Kinder and Cleaner, Darker and Edgier, Denser and Wackier and True Art Is Angsty. Compare Career Resurrection, when the creator returns to form after a period of diminished reputation or below-par/non-existent work.note Career Resurrection is a creator's work going back to being good after being bad (or being nothing). Creator Recovery is a creator's work becoming more cheerful after being depressing. |
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Marina Diamandis' first two albums, The Family Jewels and Electra Heart, are considerably negative, mostly focusing on her experience feeling hopeless and unloved and how she became The Casanova to circumvent this, but still feels empty. Froot, on the other hand, is decidedly more upbeat and positive, with the song "Happy" even lampshading this trope. | |
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Metallica had a very public Creator Breakdown that spawned St. Anger, that as a result sounds abrasive in both sound (lacking solos and with trashcan-sounding drums) and lyrics (angsty and depressing). Once they were content with their lives again, the result was Death Magnetic, sounding closer to their earlier albums and with lyrics cryptic but not brooding. | |
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Another in-universe example in Shiro Bako. Seiichi Kinoshita received a big award for his early directing work, then wound up having his reputation ruined with Boing Boing Paradise. After years of minor work he finally earned some respect from his original series Exodus. In comparison, one of the driving conflicts in the first season, when Exodus was being worked on, was Kinoshita's problems in finishing the storyboards, which put pressure on every other aspect of production. In the second season, after Exodus was widely praised, Kinoshita is in such a groove that he finishes the storyboards for Third Aerial Girls' Squad weeks ahead of schedule. | |
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Imagine Dragons proclaimed in the 2017 single "Believer" that frontman Dan Reynolds overcame the depression that made much of their music since late 2014 sound disillusioned and/or apologetic. | |
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Matt. Hardy. In 2005, after learning that his longtime girlfriend Lita cheated on him with his close friend Edge, he was engaged in a rather public and ugly war between them and eventually the WWE, who would fire him due to complaining about it as their own careers skyrocketed. Then after seemingly gaining a new life in TNA, he burns bridges with that company as well due to getting a DUI and soon devolved into a complete joke with his fans due to faking a suicide note disguised as a "rebirth". Sometime later, he found love again with fellow wrestler Reby Sky (with whom he would eventually have four children), eventually introduced a crazed "Broken" character (partially inspired by what he had went through), became exceedingly popular with fans and has gotten steady work for several companies, including the two aforementioned ones, ever since, regaining back his previous reputation and then some. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion is a dark, psychological deconstruction of Mecha anime about loneliness and despair created when Hideaki Anno was suffering from clinical depression. Cue being married and recovering and all of a sudden we get a retelling in a series of movies by the same guy, called Rebuild of Evangelion trying to make the story make more sense and have less of a Downer Ending. Hmm… coincidence? Zig-Zagged as of the much darker third installment, which pulled a Happy Ending Override on 2.0's hopeful cliffhanger. Anno put the final movie on hold to work on other projects in light of the relapse of his depression that occurred while working on the third film. Working on Shin Godzilla finally gave Anno enough of a break that at the opening of said movie, Anno finally felt that he could return to make the fourth movie. It says something when the darkest Godzilla movie since the original, full of Body Horror and Nightmare Fuel, is the Lighter and Softer project you undertake to recover from working on these films. |
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The Slim Shady LP, while maintaining the Horrorcore subject matter of the original Slim Shady EP, goes into a much more playful place, incorporating a lot of cartoony Subverted Kids' Show elements ("Hi kids! Do you like violence?") and goofy concept songs (like Battle Rapping between a Good Angel, Bad Angel pair, a school bully revenge fantasy, and a Weird West Cowboy Episode). The sound of the album is also more poppy and cheerful as well, ditching the heavily bitcrushed A Clockwork Orange-inspired classical music samples of EP for springy, boingy funk and pop beats. This is because, between albums, Eminem got signed by Dr. Dre, finally had money, and was recovering from the suicidal depression he'd been in when he'd made EP. | |
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The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, is a sequel to The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem's meanest and most offensive album, but only aims to capture the humour and playfulness of the early work, rather than the violence. The concept of the album is that it's a second chance after being murdered by a Loony Fan, and much of the album deals with him apologising for all the awful things he said through Slim, and extending an olive branch to his abusive mother. | |
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Cathy Lee Guisewite, creator of comic strip Cathy, often jokes that her boss at the syndicate dreaded the day she entered a stable relationship and became a more secure, confident person. When just that happened, Guisewite chose to end Cathy rather than let it fall victim to this trope. | |
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In-universe example: Ryu Shizuka from Bakuman。 writes dystopian fiction, but after his editor takes him to a cabaret where he talks to women for the first time, his main character slowly starts spending most of his time with a harem of hot women. After the editor shows him the women were only nice to him because they got paid, Shizuka becomes disillusioned again and continues writing about how all Humans Are Bastards (even women). | |
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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls has an In-Universe reference to this when Toko Fukawa, the Ultimate Writer, takes a moment to wonder if her writing is going to suffer now that she's become happy through her friendship with Komaru. Her belief is that great writing comes from the depressed and the downtrodden because even when they write a happy love story (like hers) it will never be shallow, vacuous drivel, as those types of writers are still able to perfectly envision how an ideal world should look. At the end of the conversation, she determines that her natural talent will make up for it. | |
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The Rolling Stones's 1989 album Steel Wheels was made after Mick Jagger and Keith Richards buried the hatchet after spending much of the 80s bickering with one another to the point that the Stones almost broke up. | |
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Caroline Polachek's 2023 sophomore album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, was ironically first brainstormed as a result of the turbulent emotions she experienced following the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, from contracting the virus herself to losing her father, whom she had a turbulent relationship with. The wildly conflicting emotions spurned her into what she dubbed a "spiraling" state, musically and psychologically, acting on a stream-of-consciousness-style approach to her songwriting and lyrics that ended up emphasizing themes of optimism and escapism amidst bittersweet turmoil. The final album ends up being very "maximist" and adventurous in mixing genres and influences (lumping Caroline's usual art pop sound with the likes of calypso and dembow, Celtic folk, flamenco, early 2000's radio pop, etc.), and with poetic, abstract lyrics that lean towards being romantic, witty, and upbeat. | |
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Working on Shin Godzilla finally gave Anno enough of a break that at the opening of said movie, Anno finally felt that he could return to make the fourth movie. It says something when the darkest Godzilla movie since the original, full of Body Horror and Nightmare Fuel, is the Lighter and Softer project you undertake to recover from working on these films. | |
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Because Shigesato Itoi was suffering from heavy depression while developing Earthbound 64, the game was initially going to be much darker in tone. By the time the game became Mother 3, Itoi had mostly recovered from it, and the game's tone became suitably lighter. | |
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While difficult to describe it as a full recovery considering how the material on the album is inspired by his legal problems, work stress and divorce, Eminem stated that the reduced shock content on The Eminem Show was because, after his assault conviction, he'd mostly got his Hair-Trigger Temper under control. The regular drug tests he had as part of his probation deal also prevented him from using drugs and alcohol other than his prescription, which made him a lot more emotionally stable; he was in great health following his body transformation for 8 Mile; and he'd cut ties with his abusive mother and toxic ex-wife. He stated around this time that his life was calmer than it had ever been. | |
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Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says has this In-Universe, and unusually, at the beginning of the work. Cityscape, the oneshot Toda pitches to Tanaka at the beginning of the series, is seen by Nishi as expressing Toda's own frustration and distrust of society. Her subsequent works are more joyous in tone, reflecting the fact that Toda is, in fact, slowly recovering. | |
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Porter Robinson experienced a bout of creative burnout following the release of his debut album Worlds in 2014, in turn resulting in a years-long depression from not knowing where to go next. Eventually he rediscovered his calling and set sights for his following album in 2021, titled nurture, which retains the introspective tone of Worlds, but took a much gentler, more life-affirming, and prosperous tone. | |
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