It means the purification and purgation of emotions by giving them an outlet. “These findings resonate with the Greek theory of catharsis. In that mood of pathos, they get solace,” says Meenakshi Ravi, a music therapist. “Individuals tend to listen to songs with sad tunes as these go with their emotions. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.” But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. More recently, Terry Pratchett wrote about the inspiring power of sad music in the novel ‘Soul Music’ (1994): “It was sad music. P B Shelley (1792-1822), the English Romantic poet, famously wrote about the appeal of sad songs: ‘We look before and after,/And pine for what is not:/Our sincerest laughter/With some pain is fraught /Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. For Vishnu, thematically, songs about wars, grief, regret, and anomy create ‘a sense of running out of time.’ “Somehow for me, that translates into an appreciation of the time we have,” he says. Of late, I listen to jazz as it peps me up,” he says. “I identified with those songs then and they helped me calm down. He remembers how on the occasions he was sad, he listened to heavy rock music. They just pick songs that calm them down,” says Vivian Christopher Rajan, a drummer who runs the music school Sound and Silence in Ejipura. Nobody goes and types ‘sad songs’ on YouTube. I feel people go back to some soothing numbers with which they have a personal connection. So how does one identify what songs to listen to when one is sad? How does one identify these songs? In the entire wide world, there are few things are subjective as musical tastes. “It’s like they acknowledge feelings that humans can’t understand,” he says. Girish Chandran, MNC professional, says he listens to sad songs because they console him. I feel liberated as if the instruments care for what I’m going through,” he says. “The kind of catharsis I get from making more intense, dark music generally leaves me with an emotionally balanced life the rest of the time. Psychologists say one reason is that the music resonates with what an individual is going through.īengalurean music composer Vishnu Ravindran Nair agrees. Why is sad music preferred? Many reasons. Like in a 2015 survey, participants indicated they would rather listen to the sadder pieces as they made them calmer and less agitated. Researchers at the University of South Florida asked 76 female undergrads (half of them diagnosed with depression) to listen to various classical music clips. They don’t do it to increase their misery rather, sad songs help them feel more cheerful, according to a report in Emotion, a magazine published by the American Psychological Association. A study has found that depressed people prefer listening to sad music.
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