Results: Music and Lachrymosity (Tunes That Produce Tears)
Published on 12/21/2015
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Does any music get you to crying? Yes, there's music that opens my waterworks anywhere from a trickle to a flood
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No, there isn't any music that affects me emotionally like that
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359 votes
Not currently, but there once was a time when music so affected me.
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If music can bring you to tears, what does the trick? Passages of &/or entire instrumental pieces
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250 votes
Multiple pieces by a particular singer (or rapper) that brings me to tears
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169 votes
The playing of one particular &/or multiple instrumentalists
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The singing of (a) paritcular song/s by (a) particular singer/s
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Songs in a particular genre &/or style (e.g., folk murder ballads, sad country drinking songs, love-begging r&b/soul slow jams), possibly by specific singers
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302 votes
None of the anove, but another instance or instances I may describe in a comment below
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Music doesn't make me cry
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If you cry to certain music, how does that make you feel to be have music make you feel so sad? I'm good with it;there's nothing wrong with a good cry.
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599 votes
I feel embarrassed to have been so emotionally manipulated by music.
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99 votes
It disturbs me, giving me pause as to my emotional stability,
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It depends on the song &/or my mood at the time I'm hearing certain music.
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400 votes
Once again, I'm not one to cry to music.
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Does it seem to you that there's less English language popular music of a sorrowful nature being produced now than in times past? Yes, and it's a shame.
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Yes, but so what?
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No, but you have to know what you want to hear.
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No, but I don't like or avoid sad songs anyway.
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Beats me.
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491 votes
I've another answer I may share in a comment.
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