Tear Jerker / Lindsey Stirling

• Shatter Me and the video makes a lot of listeners emotional. It's not strictly sad, but it's a very intense song.
• Her violin-and-harp cover of "River Flows In You." As if that song wasn't depressing enough.
• A lot of the album Brave Enough is this, given the Reality Subtext: several songs were inspired by the sudden and unexpected death of her close friend Gavi. They'd been close for years, but neither of them confirmed or denied any romantic attraction. The title track was the first song she wrote after his death. Now try listening to it without choking up.
  There's some things I should have said, I was too afraid
  It was just so hard to let you know, now it's all too late
  What we had was beautiful, I didn't want to wreck it all
  every day I think about the truth, I wish I was, I wish I was brave enough to love you
  • There's also the aptly named closing track "Gavi's Song", which she started writing with him, later finishing it on her own. The track even ends with a lo-fi recording of an early version of the tune, with Gavi's voice being the last thing we hear before the album is over (unless you have the vinyl edition, which adds one extra track, or the Target edition, which adds four).
• The audiobook of The Only Pirate At The Party, read by Lindsey herself, has a few passages where she clearly sounds like she's almost in tears as she's reading: The closing dedication to Gavi is one of them, and it's somehow even sadder just because it's the very last thing the listener hears before the book is over.
• "Lose You Now", a song written in memory of her late father and late friend Gavi that's equal parts tearjerking and uplifting. The music video provides an additional gut punch by featuring videoes of Lindsey and her dad from her childhood, as well as little Easter eggs alluding to multiple deceased loved ones.
• As part of the "Most Memorable Year" theme on Dancing with the Stars, Lindsey's dance was a tribute to her late father Stephen, with her dance partner Mark Ballas wearing both a hat and scarf belonging to Stephen. There was not a dry eye in the house afterwards.

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