It may sound counterintuitive, but listening to sad music can improve our mood in a variety of ways. Music is a form of art, and some enjoy listening to it simply in appreciation for the artistry.

Bruce Springsteen has released his fair share of emotionally devastating songs, with The River and Jungleland being among his ...

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Sad emotions can only exist because you understand happiness. Roy Orbison attest that his song about loneliness, at its heart ...

The days are getting shorter and the weather colder, so some of us get in a SAD funk. It's known that music can help improve ...

If you were to ask my friends to create a playlist for me, there would be a lot of slower tunes on the list. In fact, when I first met my current neighbor and we got around to talking about our music ...

I am one to get started on a new year. That means clearing my desk, cleaning it and readying a new daily planner and old-school desk pad. Like Robert Duvall, I love the smell of fresh paper in the ...

The 1990s just might be the definitive era of sad country music. Legends like Garth Brooks, George Strait and Alan Jackson were at the top of their game during that decade, and young bucks — like an ...

Whether you prefer the sad songs of the 2000s or the 2010s is ultimately going to come down to a matter of taste. That was true for song styles, too. In the 2010s, the country genre revamped the ...

Taylor Swift has perfected the art of the breakup song, from early hits like "Should've Said No" to recent ballads like "Loml ...