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Doesn't this presume that "sad music" is - in fact - sad? There's plenty of music I will sit and listen to that my daughter asks me to turn off because it make
by massung 7y ago
Doesn't this presume that "sad music" is - in fact - sad?
There's plenty of music I will sit and listen to that my daughter asks me to turn off because it makes her sad, but I find very uplifting. Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUpvEgJEn94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUpvEgJEn94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIcR7Xkysds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIcR7Xkysds
There are plenty of other examples as well. All the studies reveal to me is that we're all wired a little different. Shocker.
- jplayer01 7y agoYeah, I've noticed the same thing. "Sad" songs make me feel better. I'm not sure why.
- randcraw 7y agoI think music is a mirror that provides contrast. If the music is more depressing than you are, you feel less depressed. But if the music is happier than you are, you appreciate that you're more unhappy, and that makes you feel worse.
- pier25 7y agoWe're culturally conditioned to associate certain patterns to certain emotions. Personally I find those two examples you posted as melancholic and solemn, which I love. If you put those same tracks to an African tribe which has never heard (let's call it) European music, I doubt they'd feel sadness or melancholy. Maybe they wouldn't feel anything at all.