From a fan perspective, sad music is also a concrete way to catalogue your ups and downs in music. Different songs have held different emotional meanings for me at various times in my life. Listening ...

Background Music: But It’s Good for You. 6 minute read. ... instrumental solos, everything set in minor keys (too sad), and anything else that lasts more than three minutes. O’Neill, ...

Japanese Breakfast: Not Sad, Just Brilliant Michelle Zauner’s latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), is another example of her eclectic indie-pop excellence By Brenna Ehrlich ...

Sad Christmas music is practically a genre unto itself. One good starting point, if you can find it, is Rhino’s long-out-of-print “Bummed Out Christmas” CD.