Does music make you sad?

[Gemini]

I know this is a bit of an odd question as music can uplift us, improve our mood and make us happy.

I'm not talking about the emotional feelings we can get when music moves us, but a sad 'down' feeling.

I tend to get this when we listen to music from my youth, which we often do when playing games.

I enjoy a lot of the songs, but then start to feel sad because they remind me of when my parents were still here, or even the very happy early years with my ex. Perhaps this is just a reaction to getting older. Maybe nostalgic is more the word?

I can end up feeling very sad indeed. I wondered if this was just me? It certainly doesn't affect my OH that way.

[Daisy]

Music for me can be very emotional and also evocative.

Perhaps it's natural that some things make us feel nostalgic, and I think that can be a sadness for other times in our lives that we know can't be repeated or recreated.

I just tried a little experiment. I searched on YouTube for music from the 1950s. The very first record that played was Buddy Holly's "It doesn't matter any more". I remember very clearly how this record upset me. Buddy Holly was hugely popular but died tragically young in a plane crash, leaving behind his pregnant wife. This record was issued just a couple of weeks before the crash, and the feelings I had at the time were disbelief and a lot of sadness at the futility of things. Those feelings came straight back to me as soon as I heard the opening notes. I was 15. It isn't nostalgia, but more a return of feelings which at the time were very powerful and also very sad.

There's so much music that does make me sad and other songs that just make me want to get up and dance.

[Oma]

I don't know why but as soon as I hear old war songs
I get a real feeling of sorrow ,
It's the same when the last post is played
Also the same when I hear anything from Jim Reeves as he was my lovely dad's favourite singer.

[Lizzie48]

Oma, Jim Reeves was my mothers favourite, I can remember saving, wait for it, six pence, each week in a local shop club card or something to get her an LP for Christmas, it was Moonlight and Roses!!!

[Daisy]

Aww, Lizzie, your mother would have treasured that LP, both for the music and for the love and thought (not to even mention the six penses) you put into getting it for her.

Oma, my Dad's favourite was Mary's Boy Child sung by Harry Belafonte, and that song always reminds me of my Dad.

[Oma]

Daisy
Johnny Mathis singing Mary's boy child is my favourite, I love Johnny

[Grauntie Mag]

I’m beginning to think I really am odd! I love all kinds of music. Yes, many songs bring back memories but they don’t make me sad. Often I can remember where I was and who I was courting when sixties music is played!

[Oma]

GM I now have a vision of you having a boyfriend for every 60 's song 🤣🤣🤣

[Grauntie Mag]

Very likely Oma! 😂

[Daisy]

Very likely Oma! 😂

Well, it was the Sixties, Grauntie! I always think of it as my era! It was an exciting time to be young.

[Plantaholic]

Of course I am much older than all of you and the music from war time songs can make me sad.