When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: YouTube/The Beatles Picture this scenario: one day in the summer of 1968 you sit down and ...

My research collaborators at Yale University and I tried to figure out why we like sad art when we hate experiencing sadness in real life. We pay good money to see depressing movies and listen to Sad ...

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is holding a vote which could expel Israeli broadcaster Kan from the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, amid escalating calls for a boycott of the competition due ...

The organisation behind the Eurovision Song Contest has confirmed it will hold a vote on whether or not Israel should be allowed to participate next year. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. D4vd’s rise from a homeschooled Houston teenager posting Fortnite videos online to a burgeoning pop star with a ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

Another "greatest" list from Rolling Stone will spark more debate over who and what belongs and where. What is not up for debate in the music publication's 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So ...

The song, which reworks Hootie's '90s classic "Hold My Hand," is McCreery's sixth No. 1 and the band's first on the list. By Russ Penuell Scotty McCreery and Hootie & the Blowfish climb two spots to ...

Country music is a genre known for hitting you right in the feelings, and that's true both in terms of the lyrics and in the real lives of the people who write and perform these often sad songs.