Why are you doing this to yourself?

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, why do people like sad songs?

It's just like sadness and then more sadness and then it's fade to black. Mike, we recently talked about being funny, but now we have an email from an

NSQ listener about being sad.

I think I prefer talking about being funny than being sad, but that's okay.

Here we go.

So it's from Colin, and he writes, whenever whenever I'm sad I tend to listen to sad music

my girlfriend caught me crying while listening to sound of silence by Simon and

Garfunkel she said the sad song probably made it worse. Any data on this?

Well, let me just first say that Colin, I completely connect with this because when I'm having a bad day or going through something bad I for sure

listen to sad music. Okay wait what's sad for you give me a sad song? The saddest

song for me is James Blunt goodbye my lover. James Blunt do not know who this person is.

Oh my gosh, first of all, James Blunt, his like voice is so sad.

Okay, wait, now I need to know the circumstances under which... Well obviously

it was during a breakup, duh. Okay I was gonna say like I don't want to touch a sore subject, but like, wait, and how old were you?

Oh, 25? But here's how it ends. This is why you have to understand how gutted this song makes you the final stanza I'm so hollow I'm so

hollow I mean again you've got to hear him sing it but like just this idea of being so

hollow like there's nothing left you've cried yourself to bits you're

anyway yeah so I listen to that okay, before you have anything else to say,

this is my favorite song that is sad that has words.

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