Limiting your holiday playlist to your standard “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Deck the Halls” denies you one of the best musical offerings of the yuletide season: sad Christmas songs.

Listening to sad songs may seem like wallowing in pity, but a study to be published in the Journal of Aesthetic Education found that sad music can help people express their emotions, which in turn ...

But the very saddest country songs of the 2020s share personal experiences with death. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 on our list of sad songs from the decade are all story songs about loss and grief ...

Valentine’s Day means something different for everyone. However, one unanimous feeling is that it is no fun being spent alone. And what makes it worse is when you see another couple coddling and ...

And the most effective pain relievers were found to be sad songs detailing bittersweet and ... and the only requirement was that they needed to be at least 3 minutes and 20 seconds long.

3. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” by Bing ... It lands itself on our list of sad Christmas songs because even though the war is over, it doesn’t erase the devastation the war left.