The science behind Adele's 'perfect tear-jerker'

Sounds like there's the possibility for a new political ad technique here! Which primary candidate will be first to bring the voters to tears? (I'd have to recuse myself. Their lack of substance has brought me too close to tears already. TEARS OF LAUGHTER!

give credit where credit is due,,,the lady did good,very good. Congrats to her

I remember when the song "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" had the same appeal. Everyone seemed to like it and it was being played on the radio and everywhere else all the time. You rarely heard it after a year or so because people got sick of it. Too much attention can make a song and break a song.

Gosh, I didn't know that it was science that tore my heart out when I first heard Someone Like You. I just thought it was because I could relate to the sentiment. I shoulda known...

"'Someone Like You' is a textbook example." Which is why it has never brought a lump to *my* throat. I don't dislike the song, but it IS formulaic, just like all the other "popular" music the industry is churning out.

this is 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back.. another crap article from yahoo

I thought it was us feeling sorry for her??

I'm plumb sick of studies that tell why we should or shouldn't like something. Music industry professionals are so stupid; they think they know what we all want and actually listen to studies like this. What jerks!

Is this all psychologists have to do with themselves, decide why songs are popular? If so, we don't really need so many of them.

Leave it to scientist to tear apart and analyze something beautiful!

I listen to Slayer. ;)

If you'd like to hear a real tearjerker, look up "Elfen Lied Lilium" on Youtube. It's a beautiful song. Adele's music is good and so is her voice, but it doesn't make me cry!

Adele is no more than a passing fad. From the time I was just a few years old I listened to voices of singers so far superior to hers that when I heard her for the first time recently I wondered what kind of standards people have now? Now Whitney, she could sing. But alas, she is gone.

Adele's music is boring. One of the main reasons she's probably doing so well now is because, compared to the other mediocre garbage out there, she is "quality" by comparison. But still a wet noodle when taken on her own terms.

That aint no tear jerker for me- it's a channel changer

please, please for the love of god stop degrading music!!! stop encouraging these mongoloids who release the same crap year after year. listen to something real, thats actually means something. satchmo, tchaikovsky, etta, hendrix, django, beethoven, marley, the duke, even #$%$ slayer

That Americans claim to find her singing as well Jennifer Hudson's in any way enjoyable is proof positive all ya'll n/i/g/g/a/s are brainwashed feel me?