My research collaborators at Yale University and I tried to figure out why we like sad art when we hate experiencing sadness in real life. We pay good money to see depressing movies and listen to Sad ...

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Taylor Swift has released her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, on October 3, making fans go gaga over her new tracks from the much-anticipated album. It is reportedly full of upbeat and ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

A firm favourite topic for Beatles obsessives to kick around during those long-into-the night deliberations is just which of their eleven (we don’t count Magical Mystery Tour or Yellow Submarine, okay ...

Country music is a genre known for hitting you right in the feelings, and that's true both in terms of the lyrics and in the real lives of the people who write and perform these often sad songs.

Country women have delivered some truly great music in 2025. This list of the 12 best country songs released by females features several contemporary hitmakers, one absolute legend and a woman who ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

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It sounded like a slap in the face. A stinging jibe from one great rock artist to another. But was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s hit song Sweet Home Alabama really an attack on Neil Young? Guitarist Gary ...

The search for a young Lethbridge, Alta., boy who went missing while on a camping trip with his family in southwestern Alberta, is now into day five and there are about 120 searchers from Alberta and ...