Music on Tisha B’Av

This reminds of one time in Shul the Ruv was explaining about not specifically listening to music for enjoyment during these time periods.
A man asked, “Can I listen to talk radio if some of the commercials might have music?”
The Ruv almost choked but managed to answer respectfully.
Very often a production with sight & sound needs filler sound or it just doesn’t flow. A pointless narrator would take away from the film while silence would as well. So some music is played during this time to improve the production & better your experience. It’s not played for musical enjoyment.
There doesn’t need to be a heter because there’s no issur in the first place.

I once asked my rosh yeshiva why we are noheg to listen to music on a regular basis, even when Rav Moshe held differently. We also discussed why we sing psukim, and especially parts of shir hashirim, when this is also questionable from the gemara and rishonim.

He answered in two parts. 1) It is a mitzva to be melamed zchus on klal yisrael, and 2) music today has a different social context than music did 200 years ago. Until recently, music was part of an occasion. You had to hire live performers. Nowadays, music is background noise everywhere we go.

Based on the above, as we know that many, many leaders of klal yisrael appear in these Tisha B’av videos (and they know that these videos include some form of background music), and the music is not upbeat but rather serves to enhance the feeling of mourning and loss, there is good reason to assume that the background music is deemed acceptable.

This isn’t to say that you should run to listen to sad music. But in many shuls, they sing parts of kinnos, or between kinos. If these videos help people experience Tisha B’av in a more meaningful manner, and the leaders of their communities embrace them, the YWN coffee room may not be the right venue for a productive debate.

There’s a software program that lets you enter your shaila as well as the answer to it that you want. It’ll then give you the name of a rabbi that says you can do what you want to do, as per the question you asked.

Moshe > I do question whether Oct 7 events qualifiy but as I heard on one program, all bad events that occur to klal Yisroel stem from the destruction of the Batei Mikdash,

This is separate from the music. I heard it from multiple Rabbis that all tragic events are included, especially for a specific community. I am not sure it has to be necessarily linked as “stem from”, although it might be. Commemoration is a straight-forward issue not requiring theological justifications, I think.
I am a little surprised that when you were listening about Oct 7 events, your thoughts go to “do they qualify”

you don’t have to stare at youtube during the ad. Mute it and read a posuk, or watch another video on the second screen, or do chesed, call your zeidi.