For as long as I can remember, I have always preferred sad music. As a child, I used to force my mom to listen to me belting along to karaoke tracks of “My Heart Will Go On” and “I Will Always Love ...

There is a “sad girl” category, but suspiciously no “sad boy” category to counter it. Rolling Stone put out a readers’ poll of “The 10 Saddest Songs of All Time” in 2013.