Why do we like to listen to sad music, when the feeling of sadness is something we usually try to avoid? In the New York Times article “Why We Like Sad Music” , Ai Kawakami explains how Aristotle suggested that by overwhelming us with an undesirable emotion, like sadness, music somehow purges it. According to an experiment that the New York Times did, they found that the felt emotion did not correspond to the perceived emotion. The experiment showed how people sometimes feel more romantic and feel the urge to dance, when listening to sad music.
