Surprisingly; Four main reasons we take comfort in melancholy songs:

in Article published on "buffer.com" for 10-weird-ways-to-be-happy-today" , one of those weird ways is to listen to melancholic songs, might provides us comfort because:

• They allow us to drift off into imagination

• They might provide us catharsis (emotion regulation)

• They allow us to relate to a common emotion (empathy), and

• They’re divorced from our actual problems (no “real-life” implications)

Would you agree? 🙂

The above reasons were extracted from a scientific survey on a large population, you can check the results of that survey on the link below;

Source News https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110490