{"id":2225,"date":"2025-03-10T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/sad-songs-cheer-up-downcast-people\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:05:13","slug":"sad-songs-cheer-up-downcast-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/sad-songs-cheer-up-downcast-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad songs cheer up downcast people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-10 12:05:12<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Sad songs can make miserable people feel better.<BR><br \/>\nThe heart-wrenching sounds from tracks such as Neil Young&#8217;s &#8216;Only Love Can Break Your Heart&#8217; can actually help lift spirits because they act as a sympathetic friend during times of trouble.<BR><br \/>\nEric Clarke, a University of Oxford music professor, told the Unexpected Elements podcast: &#8220;There&#8217;s been some really interesting work going into why it is that people like sad music when they&#8217;re feeling sad.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;People often describe music as being like a friend.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;And if you were feeling really down in the dumps, you want someone who&#8217;s going to be sympathetic to your situation or to empathise with you.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-10 12:05:12 Sad songs can make miserable people feel better. The heart-wrenching sounds from tracks such as Neil Young&#8217;s &#8216;Only Love Can Break Your Heart&#8217; can actually help lift spirits&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}