Sad music might actually evoke positive emotions, reveals a new study by Japanese researchers. Sad music might actually evoke positive emotions reveals a new study by Japanese researchers published in ...

If you've ever reached for the ballads of Adele or blasted out Sinead O'Connor when feeling upset it might not be because you are wallowing, instead you could be subconsciously doing it to make you ...

Tear-jerkers such as Adele’s Someone Like You frequently top the charts these days, while gloomy classical compositions like Mozart’s Requiem have moved people for centuries. Both portray and bring ...

People with depression listen to sad music because it makes them feel better, according to a small study that is one of the first to investigate why people turn to tearjerkers when they’re already ...

One of the biggest challenges any songwriter faces is how to turn their own story into a universal story that an artist and millions of his or her fans will like. Most of us find it relatively easy to ...