You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

My research collaborators at Yale University and I tried to figure out why we like sad art when we hate experiencing sadness in real life. We pay good money to see depressing movies and listen to Sad ...

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing praised Donald Trump in a rare letter and compared his military’s coup to the US president’s baseless claims of election fraud, suggesting both leaders were ...

Country music covers a wide range of topics with lyrics that speak to the best of times and the hardest of times. While there are plenty of songs about love, drinking, dancing, and living life to the ...

The 2020s may only be halfway over, but already, this decade has produced a bumper crop of heartbreak songs and tear-jerkers. Some artists opened up about their mental health struggles and childhood ...

Kameron Marlowe is going against the grain. While artists are releasing party anthems and feel-good tunes, Marlowe is offering Sad Songs for the Soul—ten songs that dive deep into heartbreak and ...

In the 2010s, country music revamped the definition of what a sad country song could be. Sure, there were still quite a few traditional heartbreak ballads about the end of a relationship, like Tim ...

We can love a song despite it making us feel sad — and scientists don’t agree on why. Researchers have previously found that sad music might cause us to feel moved in an emotionally positive way, ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. When Adele debuted her 2011 ...

After all these years, Julian Lennon admits "Hey Jude," the song Paul McCartney wrote for him, got under his skin. Lennon, the son of the late John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, who passed in ...

The widow of a retired police captain is speaking out in defense of country music star Jason Aldean’s song "Try That In A Small Town," saying people need to stand up for their community. Ret. Police ...