Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music is about the performance.
Great artists suffer for the people.
Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.