why do we like sad music?

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Seems weird when you think about it I mean why would you like something that makes you sad?

because people can relate to it.

I like some sad songs but I prefer happy songs. I tend to like happy songs the first time I hear them and have to kind of warm up to sad songs.

For example, there is a happy song called "Good People", on the same album, there is a sad song called "Safe Upon the Shore". I like them both now, but I liked "Good People" the first time I heard it, and "Safe Upon the Shore" took about 10 listens.

It also depends on the mood I'm in.

I like feeling sad. It's my constant companion, sadness. It's not like a deep depression, more like a sweet melancholy. And sad music really fits this mood.

Because it's just so damn epic to sit their with some sad music and think about life...

because in sadness, there often is a kind of elegiac beauty as well. and in beauty, there is often a tinge of sadness, due to its transient nature. the buddhist priests who make those multicolored sand paintings illustrate this point well, when they obliterate their artwork after it is completed.

Sad songs say so much.

- Elton John

Can you name any 'sad' pieces of music?

I was thinking along the lines of, say, the Irish song Spancil Hill. Or perhaps the Catholic chant Miserere.

I like sad music, because I can relate to it and I like how it feels to listen to it......but there is pleanty of music i listen to that is not nessisarly sad, but I do not like what people would call 'happy music' it makes my head hurt.

the old tim buckley song "once i was" is totally sad.

I only like really, really good sad songs. Otherwise I won't. They tend to make dwell on things that I am fine thinking about, but don't want to think about if I can avoid it.

I don't like things that make me sad. I've never heard any music that's made me sad.

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