Sad Songs that will Make You Cry ~ Playlist 2021

Music Therapy channel presents Sad Songs that Make You Cry ~ Playlist 2021. This beautiful playlist of sad songs will make you cry, and will also make you feel relieved and a lot better after listening to it.

Music has the ability to provide company and comfort, especially for broken hearts. People tend to listen to sad music more often when they are in emotional distress or feeling lonely, or when they are in introspective moods. Sad music can be experienced as an imaginary friend who provides support and empathy after the experience of a social loss. People with depression feel better after listening to sad music.

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion. But we tend to find it pleasurable in an aesthetic context, which is known as the paradox of enjoying sad music. What is the nature of the pleasure that people experience from listening to sad music?

1. Nostalgia. Sad music is a powerful trigger for nostalgic memories of foregone times. Such reflective revisiting of nostalgic memories may enhance mood, especially if the memories are related to pivotal and meaningful moments in life (i.e., high school, college). We enjoy the sweetness of these memories through vivid imaginations. There is some happiness felt in recollecting the good times, as well as sadness from missing them.

2. Vicarious emotion. Music generates vicarious emotions in listeners without real-life implications. Music helps to channel one’s frustration or purge negative emotions like anger and sadness. When we listen to sad music (or watch a sad film), we are disconnected from any real threat or danger that the music (or movie) represents. When we cry at the beauty of sad music, we experience a profound aspect of our emotional selves.

3. Prolactin. At the biological level, sad music is linked to the hormone prolactin, which is associated with crying and helps to curb grief. Prolactin produces feelings of calmness to counteract mental pain.

4. Empathy. Empathy can be broadly defined as a process by which we can come to understand and feel what another person is experiencing. Expressions of sadness and grief are likely to rouse support and help in others. Similarly, listening to sad music may evoke an empathic concern in those with a strong disposition to empathy.

5. Mood regulation. Sad music produces psychological benefits via mood regulation. Sad music enables the listener to disengage from distressing situations (breakup, death, etc.) and focus instead on the beauty of the music.

6. An imaginary friend. Music has the ability to provide company and comfort. People tend to listen to sad music more often when they are in emotional distress or feeling lonely, or when they are in introspective moods. Sad music can be experienced as an imaginary friend who provides support and empathy after the experience of a social loss.

In short, music has the proven ability to affect emotions, mood, memory, and attention. The ability of music to express emotions is also the reason for its application in music therapy. Listening to sad music makes us feel better because we can use it as an emotional outlet.

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Track list:
00:00​ Heart To a Stranger
03:18​ I Used to Be Free
06:06​ I Let Your Smile Fade Away
09:47​ I’ve Fallen Down
12:43​ Won’t You Save Me
16:12​ Fire Line
19:36​ Where Are You Now
22:45​ Way Way Back
27:25​ Act Normal
31:07​ Bitter Heart
35:00​ Whatever You Do
38:57​ A Wanderer
42:04​ Gone With The Wind
45:32​ Youth is Wasted on the Young
50:06​ Monster
54:13​ Apologize
58:12​ Hate Being Away From You
1:01:11​ If You Still Wanted To Be Loved

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