Sad Songs That Help a Little…Not a Lot

Episode notes

If you read Annabelle’s op-ed in the New York Times about being diagnosed with lung cancer, you might be able to infer this year has been a bit much. So why would a friend recommend Annabelle watch the play We’re Gonna Die by Young Jean Lee, in which the playwright talks about her father dying…of lung cancer?

With her band, Future Wife, playwright Young Jean Lee takes the stage at Lincoln Center’s LCT3 in a life-affirming show that anyone could perform, about the thing everyone has in common: WE’RE GONNA DIE. You may be miserable, but you won’t be alone.

1. The friend knows Annabelle very well
2. Science

A study from the University of Limerick sheds some light on why sad songs make us happy.

In this week’s episode we’ll hear the sad songs that get Laura and Annabelle weepy–in a good way–and a listener tells us why Edelweiss is her go-to sad song.

We received lots of responses from listeners on Twitter, and since we don’t have time to squeeze them all into a 15 minute show, we created a Spotify playlist with everyone’s favorites:

Tiny Victories Sad Song Playlist

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We want folks to share their tiny victories on our hotline because, frankly, we’ll assume we’re just talking into the void every week and nothing matters. Prove us wrong. Did you finally do that thing you were putting off? Tiny victory! Reconnect with someone you haven’t been in touch with for ages? Victory! We only ask that you try to keep messages to under a minute so we’re able to play it on the show.

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