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One writer examines why people still love listening to sad music, even when they're not feeling down. Spoiler alert: There's some cool science behind it.

This is the paradox of sad music: We generally don’t enjoy being sad in real life, but we do enjoy art that makes us feel that way. Countless scholars since Aristotle have tried to account for it.