Sad Songs

There's something particular about 'sad' music. Somewhere between the slow rhythms and low notes, I lose myself because of the honesty that can be found in songs like these. The songs I'm talking about are those that when you hear them, you can instantly picture the musician held up in a run-down little motel sitting on the floor pouring his heart out about his latest heartbreak. It's the intensity of the musician's voice that one truly feels the emotion that the musician wanted to portray in his/her music. In my opinion, sadness is one of the strongest emotions, if not the strongest, so for an artist to incorporate it into their music just makes their music that much better. Moreover, sadness is something that everyone has experienced and can relate to, so regardless what genre the song is considered to be in, everyone can understand what the artist is trying to portray. For example, Slow Dancing In A Burning Room by John Mayer, Collide by Howie Day, Skinny Love by Bon Iver, or Broken by Seether are all songs that many people enjoy and look forward in their times of need. It's something about the rawness found in 'sad' songs that just makes them so much more attractive to me and, in my opinion, higher quality in the emotional sense than other songs.