Name: Why Does Music Make Us Cry?
Uploaded: 2025-03-06T20:38:12.000Z
Duration: 2 min 9 s
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One of the interesting things about music that touches our soul.

Music that induces melancholy, perhaps a bit of sadness is the question, why would we do that to ourselves, right?

Why would we listen to a song that makes us cry?

What kind of sick pleasure do we get from nostalgia, right?

And there was an interesting article in Brain Pickings that says that this is part of the purpose of beautiful music.

And by actually making room for our pain, acts as a cathartic experience.

That allows us to release pent up emotions that otherwise would drive us into a neurotic spiral into hell.

Melancholic music, beautiful music that makes you cry is piercing you in a certain way and making room for your pain.

Most of us are just generally very good at repressing it.

Repressing the grim reality of our condition, but most of us, we've we've we've picked up so much pain along the way.

We're all suffering from a kind of psychological PTSD.

It's called being alive, you know, it's called falling in love and having your heart broken.

It's called failing in life and getting back up again, but those failings, they eat at us.

And so we carry this pain and we need outlets for our pain.

And some of us become artists and some of us become painters and some of us become lyricists and some of us build companies that change the world and plant the flag on the surface of the moon.

But for others of us, sometimes what it takes is a beautiful song that lets us cry.

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Why Does Music Make Us Cry?

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