The Saddest Song in the World

While persuing the AV club's blog The Hater, I came across the following article:

Nokia recently commissioned a physiologist to conduct research on the subject of music and emotions, and he came to the exact same conclusion as my sister did after watching Richard Dryfuss teach some kid how to play the tuba during the turbulent 60s: Turns out, music does make you feel things. Who knew?

But the science didn't stop there. The physiologist went on to test physical responses to a number of songs in order to determine which songs make people the saddest, and which songs make them feel the most exhilarated.

The saddest song was The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work." (Sadness was measured by decreased heart rate, not by the number of tears you're crying on the inside.)

The most exhilarating song (i.e. the song that causes the biggest increase in breaths per minute) was Blur's "Song 2."

Yes, this study took place in the UK.

Grab a tissue and have a listen to both the most and least blue songs in the world.

LINK (to the original article)

THE SADDEST



THE MOST EXHILARATING