Michael Rank’s modernist home is tucked back into a sylvan stretch between Pittsboro and Carrboro, a steel-and-concrete prism that juts from the surrounding greenery. Gray and angled, the formidable ...

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 ...

Some of the saddest songs ever written come from the country music library. The genre has always been known for having a sensitive side, even if it's sometimes buried under some parties and ...

From happy dances to sad TikTok songs, people are making the most of this application to follow trends and viral songs. While users can use TikTok to express their love, happiness, and excitement, ...

Growing up as a musician in the major-label system, Aimee Mann says the thing she constantly heard was, “This doesn’t sound like a single. We need to have a single. It has to be more up-tempo. Radio ...

As this list of sad songs demonstrates, there are many reasons to break down in tears -- a broken heart, death, lost car keys after an especially crappy morning. No matter what the situation, chances ...

I for years believed in the Newtonian assertion that objects at rest tended to stay at rest, so I was an object at rest. Then several years ago, my daughter — who at the time had no sense of personal ...

I know what you're thinking: Every Radiohead song is sad. Well you're wrong! Data scientist Charlie Thompson has mapped out every Radiohead song by how sad each song sounds (and how sad the lyrics are ...

Aki Kaurismäki’s 20th film keeps his signature humor and style. Fallen Leaves, starring Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen as lonely, meant-to-be lovers, finds the Finnish director at one of the peaks of ...

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 ...