These sad country songs are almost guaranteed to bring on the waterworks, no matter how many times I hear them.

It may sound counterintuitive, but listening to sad music can improve our mood in a variety of ways. Music is a form of art, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you’re a fan of alternative music, you are well aware that emo is way more than just a phase. It’s a sound, it’s a subculture and it’s a lifestyle to be a forever emo kid. Emo didn’t die back in ...

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 might be a global pop star, but she got her start in country music. These four songs proves she is still a ...

The popular belief that a song can be so sad that it can trigger suicide has a long history. Written in 1933 by Hungarian composer Seress and lyricist Janvor, Gloomy Sunday tells of the despondency of ...

Taylor Swift said she feared that her songwriting would “dry up” if she was “truly happy”. The US pop star admitted she worried that she had to be sad to write songs in interviews promoting her 12th ...