Listening to sad songs makes you feel sad?
By Wise Ghost
@WiseGhots (14606)
February 2, 2019 4:57pm CST
When talking about music, especially the saddest songs and / or slow rhythms, many people make an automatic association with the fact that many people feel even sadder to hear them.
What do you think about this?
In my case, this isn't work like that... Not at all. I listen to this kind of songs very often and I don't feel sad anytime.
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@FourWalls (68130)
• United States
3 Feb 19
I truly think it depends on the person. I remember Jim Reeves saying in an interview that, although he wasn't a sad person, he loved to sing sad songs. On the contrary, Patsy Cline was once quoted as saying, "I sing just like I hurt inside."
Sad songs don't make me sad all the time. As Elton John once sang, sad songs say so much!
(And yes, I really did just reference Elton John and two country singers!)
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Feb 19
You are so sly. What, no Warren Zevon?
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@WiseGhots (14606)
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5 Feb 19
@FourWalls @JohnRoberts That's a very good quote from Sir. Elton.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
3 Feb 19
Yes, sad songs make me sad but at times the sadness needs to come out.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Feb 19
I don't listen to sad songs.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Feb 19
@WiseGhots They don't interest me.
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@hillhjill (23717)
• United States
3 Feb 19
I think it all depends, like if it is a song that was a friend and mines songs and they are no longer here with us I will get sad.
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@isweartokira (3460)
• United States
20 Feb 19
I guess it depends. sometimes lyrics can make me sad, sometimes just the melody can make me sad. can be slow or fast. or sometimes a song will be associated with a memory and that's what makes it sad/bittersweet, not the song itself
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@JESSY3236 (19941)
• United States
5 Feb 19
When I heard the song Tears in Heaven, it makes me sad. My mother also gets sad when she hears it.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
3 Feb 19
Sad movies always make me cry.....A song by forgot the name. ...mary hopkins?
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@MissNikki (5237)
• Maple Ridge, British Columbia
3 Feb 19
I think it depends on the person. I believe when you are already sad and you listen to sad music that you find beautiful, it can be therapeutic.
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@Funmilayomercy (106)
• Nigeria
3 Feb 19
I sometimes relate sad music to my sad memories so whenever I listen to them it usually brings me down and it changes my mood immediately,nahhh sad music is not for me
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@WiseGhots (14606)
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5 Feb 19
When we establish this connection, everything becomes more personal.
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