Why do we like sad music? There is something magnetic and engaging in songs like Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton or Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. It is a musical emotion that far from overwhelming us or causing us discomfort, awakens our deepest feelings getting the world to stop, that we navigate in the introspection of our own being … We are not mistaken if we say that in the lists of the most successful songs there is always one of melancholic dyes. An example as distinctive as it is striking is that of the British singer Adele. His musical career is based on that quintessence, that of sadness, that of that permanent perfume where disappointment, ruptures, anguish and loneliness permeate lyrics like those contained in the well-known Hello. Are we masochists? Why do we delight so much with REM Everybody Hurts and with all those titles that we get to listen in a loop even going through a bad time ourselves? Aristotle himself said in his day that music has the gift of “purging....