The sad songs they have a unique magic that allows you to connect with the deepest emotions, exploring the complexity of feelings. Through their melancholic melodies and moving lyrics, these tracks manage to capture moments of pain, loss, nostalgia and heartbreak in a way that resonates with the hearts of those who listen to them. Throughout history thousands of compositions with these characteristics have been published and, although determining which of them is the saddest may depend on various factors, science seems to have an answer.
For ChatGPTwho is frequently consulted for questions of this type, “there is no single saddest song in history, since the perception of sadness in music can vary according to the experience and emotions of each person”.
Taking this clarification into account, it produces a list of ten songs, based on what people generally qualify as the saddest. The topic that dots is “Hurt”, of the king of country Johnny Cashwhich originally recorded Nine Inch Nails, American rock band. The sad melodies, the vulnerability of the voices and the lyrics form a total atmosphere of sadness.
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“It’s no secret that music can profoundly affect how we feel, nor that musicians can seek to express their feelings at a specific time or about a particular subject through their work,” he shared. Miika Makitaloexecutive director of HappyOrNot.
It is important to note that the songs selected by this study are not necessarily the ones that the public finds the saddest, but those that have melodies that -according to the data- are the best for expressing the emotions of sadness.
This is the saddest song in history, according to science
Meanwhile, science also answered this question of the saddest song in history in the year 2022. The analysis was carried out by the analyst Micallef Grimaudin the university of Durham, together with data HappyOrNotand the answer that the study gave was “Something In The Way” from the band rock nirvana. Two more songs were below, which are “Black” from Pearl Jam and “Everybody Hurts” by REM, which was ranked eighth on the Artificial Intelligence list.