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If you’re a fan of alternative music, you are well aware that emo is way more than just a phase. It’s a sound, it’s a subculture and it’s a lifestyle to be a forever emo kid. Emo didn’t die back in ...

If you use Spotify or Apple Music, chances are you organize your tunes into mood-reflective playlists — one fully loaded with bangers for a kickstart before the pregame, another teeming with romantic ...

Are we intentionally making ourselves feel worse by listening to sad music? Studies show that the reason we always go back to ...

Fans can't get enough of Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" and her success on the Billboard Hot 100 proves it. The single has been sitting atop the chart ever since its release on Jan. 8, beating out ...

Sad bangers and other songs that get us through. By Melissa Kirsch To get through the pandemic, the writer Hanif Abdurraqib has relied on “sad bangers”: “songs whose lyrics of grief, anxiety, yearning ...

I was surprised that my favorite music streaming service has a playlist called Sad Songs. I wondered: Why would anyone want to listen to a bunch of sad songs? I assumed that sad songs make you sad, ...

Fifteen songs that tell the tale of a rough season. By Lindsay Zoladz This week, there has been joy neither in Mudville nor in Queens — home of the New York Mets, a team enjoying a catastrophically ...