Music is one means to express the soul. Sad genre music is one of music with high emotional pressure. High emotional pressure allows triggering emotions in someone who hears it. According to Sloboda and Juslin (2001), the music can induce emotions in its listeners and is perceived by listeners as expressive of emotion. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of music with the sad genre for emotions from the song "Too Good at Goodbyes" by Sam Smith. In this study, the researchers found that the majority of respondents revealed that sad music can trigger emotions in the soul. Descriptive qualitative research with questionnaire methods was used in this study to obtain the valid data. Questionnaire was used in this research as an instrument of research to get the real data from the participants.
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