Why We Love Listening To Sad Music
Music affects our brains in all kinds of wonderful ways . Upbeat music is great for working out and classical music can help you focus, but even sad music has its perks. Here's why we love listening to sorrowful songs, and why they deserve to be on your playlists.
Tuomas Eerola , professor of music cognition at Durham University, explains the three main reasons we like to hear sad songs. First, sad music can deepen and amplify the feelings of sorrow and loss. These experiences often aren't pleasurable, but reflecting can be therapeutic . Sad music can also usher in feelings of melancholia, or as Eerola describes as the sentiment you might have on a rainy day. Melancholy, while often thought of as a negative feeling, is actually quite useful for enriching your creativity.
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