Heartbreak never seems to go out of style, just like these classic country tearjerkers by Connie Smith, Merle Haggard, and Eddy Arnold.

Sometime in the mid-two-thousands, when people would still hand you cassette tapes or CDs at shows or in record stores or during hangouts in someone’s parents’ basement or smoke-filled apartment, I ...

Famed composer S. R. Dehariya praises Bhojpuri music's folk roots and emotional depth. He composed Chhath Puja devotional “Kaanch Hi Baans Ke Bahangiya” (sung by Anuradha Paudwal) and Hindi hit “Tumse ...

I need your help. I want to do my own Extremely Scientific Survey of the saddest songs you’ve ever heard. Bonus points if they make you cry. Why do we enjoy songs that make us cry? It seems like the ...

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Millions of people sing it each year at the stroke of midnight, some beaming with joy and others overcome with emotion as they bid goodbye to the year that has passed. But what does the New Year’s ...

There’s an old Howard Jones song that sums up the state of the Detroit Lions. You can look at the menu but you just can't eat. You can feel the cushions but you can't have a seat. That’s where this ...

In defense of the sad holiday song. By Melissa Kirsch Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The trouble is less with the song itself than with Song’s attempt to pivot toward a conventionally reassuring ending, which feels ...

On Friday, Oct. 17, Ella Langley released a new song called “Choosin’ Texas,” a track about Texans loyalty to their state. In the song, Langley tells a story about how she couldn’t keep her man, a ...

Grab tissues and dim the lights '€” we'€™re diving into the most heart-wrenching bops that belong in every sad girl playlist. From intimate bedroom-pop confessions to cinematic alt-pop laments, these ...