It's totally normal to need a good cry sometimes, and there's nothing that does the trick quite like the best sad songs can. Hearing your favorite artists of all time singing the saddest lyrics and ...

When it is a topic in a song you often have the ingredients for a tearjerker. I have a list compiled from readers and a separate list called Editor's Choice, which follows the first list. While I took ...

Come on; we’ve all ugly cried. And if you really haven’t, you should try it out sometime. We wouldn’t recommend doing this in public, but a hearty, full-out hysterical cry sesh can be cathartic. And ...

A lot of pop songs become hits because they perk you up. But not this pop song. Among current chart-topping bops like Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” and Lil Naz X’s “Old Town Road,” there’s the absolute ...

Here’s a fun little musical experiment from The Gregory Brothers. They flipped major and minor keys in popular songs to transform previously happy songs into sad ones and turn old depressing sad songs ...

Babies as young as 5 months can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomy tunes. Researchers displayed an emotionally-neutral face for ...