The 2000s delivered some of country music's stone-cold saddest songs, ever. Want proof? Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss' "Whiskey Lullaby" — one of country music's defining heartbreak ballads, and a ...

Whether you prefer the sad songs of the 2000s or the 2010s is ultimately going to come down to a matter of taste. That was true for song styles, too. In the 2010s, the country genre revamped the ...

Kelly Clarkson’s Since U Been Gone still hits with the fire it had in 2004 and remains the breakup anthem that shaped the ...

We can love a song despite it making us feel sad — and scientists don’t agree on why. Researchers have previously found that sad music might cause us to feel moved in an emotionally positive way, ...