Amy Winehouse performs during the 46664 concert in celebration of Nelson Mandela's life at Hyde Park on June 27, 2008 in London. Sadness takes on different forms, from regret to depression to loss; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Sad songs can be helpful when someone has been bottling their emotions up,” says adolescent therapist Dr. Courtney Conley. “They ...

Hip-hop has been cranking out living-it-up bangers for decades, but the average historian is (or should be) aware that dark thoughts aren’t a foreign concept for the genre. After all, Grandmaster ...

UPDATE, 4/19/24 at 4:00 p.m. ET: The depression era had a list of new songs when Taylor Swift released The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology on Friday, April 19. Now, “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or ...

Need a few depressing rock songs to get into your feelings? These five tracks are some of our favorites. And the stories behind a few of them are heartwrenching. For a man known for his country music ...

Beyond feeling sad, depression can leave a person feeling hopeless, apathetic and worthless. Some people deal with major clinical depression all of their lives, while others suffer from situational ...

Time and time again, Boston-based musician Alisa Amador has found the right words for the moment — a challenging skill, even for many practiced songwriters. Last year, her song “Milonga Accidental” ...

If you’ve never experienced depression, consider yourself a very lucky person. If you have, then you know that it can be crushing, debilitating, and devastating. It’s one hell of a mean disease and it ...

Grunge had no pretension. The rock subgenre from the late 1980s and early 1990s wasn’t afraid to speak its mind. Its biggest names wrote songs about disillusionment, drugs, and depression. And yet ...

Lately, Kane Brown has been leaning into the idea that people, more often than not, are better together. During a recent celebration for his country hit “I Can Feel It,” the musician revealed that he ...

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 ...