I love this article, Deconstructing The Love Song: How And Why Love Songs Work. It contains so many references to the music and musicians we love. If you love music, you’ll find it pretty interesting.
Here are just a few of the tidbits buried in this article:
- It has been estimated that more than 100 million love songs have been recorded, and the variety is staggering. (My first thought? “How is that possible?”)
- A Spotify playlist titled “Sad Love Songs For Crying Yourself To Sleep” has over 35,000 followers.
- Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme to the movie, The Titanic, sold 20 million copies.
- A study by the University Of Montreal in 2016, published in Frontiers In Psychology, offered a scientific basis for “the paradoxical enjoyment of music-induced sadness.” Researchers found that sad songs induced a biochemical response in empathetic listeners, triggering beneficial hormones.
