Sad music can help boost your mood?

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Sometimes a good cry happens all on its own and sometimes you need a little help, but the tears just aren’t quite coming. So you do whatever you need to do in order to get there: you watch a few gut-wrenching minutes of a movie scene, or you put on a playlist that tugs at your heartstrings in just the right way. And then you let it all out, and it feels great. A study (Journal Scientific Reports) found that crying to sad songs really does produce a measurable sense of pleasure. The study’s results showed that tears involve pleasure from sadness and that they are calming.