MUSIC: ESCAPE TO SADNESS !!

One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain.     : BOB MARLEY

Researchers from free university of berlin surveyed 722 people around the world and found that sad music more than happy music can actually lead to beneficial emotional effects”.

The Freie Universität Berlin (lit. "Free University of Berlin") is a renowned  located in Berlin and one of the most prominent universities in Germany. It is internationally known for its research in humanities and social sciences, as well as in the field natural and life sciences.

People are more inclined towards sad music in the whole world, inspite of the fact that people always want to stay happy happy and more happy.

Researchers of the free university did a study based on the survey of 770 people around the world and discovered that sad music can evoke positive emotions, like peacefulness and tenderness, and offers four distinct rewards for choosing that weepy ballad on your iPod. It achieves this by providing the listener with four different rewards

: IMAGINATION,  EMOTIONAL REGULATION , EMPATHY   

                                        AND                                               

                   NO REAL LIFE IMPLICATIONS

Many respondents said that when they were in a bad mood, experiencing sadness through music made them feel better afterwards and provided an emotional boost. That may be because the songs help them to express and release their emotions.

The reward of “imagination” allowed listeners to feel as though they could express themselves as richly as the mournful music.

 The “empathy” reward made the listener feel good by allowing him to share the sadness of another human being through the so "(Sad music has) potential to regulate negative moods and emotions, as well as to provide consolation... In this sense, sad music can play a role in well-being."

It is been truly said that music washes away from the soul the dust of everybody’s life.

The study explained that the average number of emotions that participants reported to have experienced in response to sad music was three

This “suggests that a multifaceted emotional experience elicited by sad music enhances its aesthetic appeal”.

Conclusion which was published in the journal plos one, Stefan koelsch and liila taruffi said

“The fact that people appreciate sadness in music may appear paradoxical, given the strong popular and scientific emphasis on happiness as a source of personal wellbeing

Music evoked sadness can also be experienced as a pleasant emotion, differently from 'everyday sadness,'" Taruffi said.

Many people also reported feeling wonder and transcendence after listening to melancholy ballads.
So it turns out Elton John was right after all: Sad songs do say so much.
Music is your escape to sadness ..