Larry Sherman
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first heard Aug 2026
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We talk about always wanting to be happy, but in reality, we seek out sad songs.
We want to have that catharsis.
We want to have that experience of sadness without actually going through the actual loss or sadness.
And that actually gives us a sense of reward.
All this today on Something You Should Know.
I think so.
One of the things that I believe, based on all the research that I've done, is that music brings people together in really powerful ways.
And so I think it was kind of something that people turned to to unite groups when we were trying to survive as groups.
It probably has a lot of other functions too that are uniting people and bringing people together to
I mean, think about all the music, for example, that we use in religious practice or the music that we use even in the military or national songs.
It's the idea of uniting people, I think.
So evolutionarily, it's probably very powerful that way.
It's probably really important for our social existence.
I think there's a number of things.
One is that think about what music has in it.
If you have lyrics, like you mentioned poetry, poetry by itself is basically lyrics.
But now you add some rhythm to it.
You add some tones that actually give emotional content to the words.
It makes it much more powerful, so much more meaningful for people.
The other thing that's, I think, important in that regard is that music, when we perform it together, there's these great studies suggesting that when we sing in a choir, for example, we release things like endorphins and we activate dopamine.
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