Is listening to sad songs a kind of masochism or catharsis?

The Notebook was recently discussed, and it made me go and listen to this song, and it tore me up something fierce!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5Uog-MDGo]

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SW-User

I think it's definitely both. I have quite a few that do that to me. The most recent is "Sleep Well My Angel" by We Are The Fallen.

puck61

@SW-User Now, I'll have to go see how well that shreds me!

SW-User

@puck61 It has one of my favorite lines of lyrics EVER in it. I think you'll appreciate it as a writer even if it doesn't hit you the way it did me.

puck61

I'm such a sentimental sap for a barbaric fatalist!