No "precise" answer from science yet but few eloquent lines from this piece:
The premise postulated by Johnson and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis, who co-hosted the event, is the oft-repeated idea that music, by conferring a narrative structure to emotion, brings emotion closer to thought. "There is something about seeing your own mood reflected that allows you to let go of that feeling," says Johnson.
A scientific explanation of how music and mood interact was sadly lacking. When asked to talk about the brain processes involved, Tallis replied that while brain scans can show us which parts of the brain are receptive to music, they do not take us much further.
The response was reminiscent of Tallis's New Scientist article on consciousness, where he stated that there is a "deep philosophical confusion embedded in the assumption that you can correlate neural activity with consciousness".
I think sad songs act as a metaphoric trampoline assisting to self reflect, assuring that we are not alone and eventually helping us to bounce back vividly. The saddest song that comes to mind right now...
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