Got your box of tissues ready? It's time to dive into the five saddest country songs of all time, ranked by emotional damage.

The four country songs below are all really beautiful bummers, with the final entry being the one that ruined me the most.

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, but we tend to find it pleasurable in an aesthetic context. What is the nature of pleasure that people experience from listening to sad music?

Virtually every frame of "The Saddest Music in the World" sings the same tune. It's the old ditty that goes something like this: Love me, I'm a cult film I make no sense but I'm so cute If you don't ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

When times get tough, you sometimes need a good cry — whether that’s being curled up on the couch watching a sappy rom-com or in the shower singing to the shampoo bottle or stuck in traffic belting ...

The Pitch: Can You Spoil Something This Surreal? Few experiences surpass stumbling onto a jaw-dropping moment in film totally unspoiled. The big twist in “One Cut of the Dead.” The Fern Mayo reveal in ...