The Nuance
Why Listening to Sad Music Makes You Feel Better
There’s science behind the coping benefits of melancholy art
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4 min readSep 5, 2019
In a 2018 tweet, country music star Reba McEntire said that, for her, singing sad songs “has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”
