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Does your mood determine the music you select or does the music you listen too affect your mood?
p.s. anyone want to jump around smashing one another into oblivion? (RATM)
I definitely listen to music according to what sort of mood I’m in.
Not sure music has ever changed the way I’m feeling just by listening to it.
Both. Music affects mood. Music therapy is effective because of our neurological, cognitive and physiological responses to sound rhythm and tone.
Definitely both.
What he said.
It can reinforce it definitely - but general choice will be led by mood to begin with..
It goes both ways.
Flame away, but if Bat Out of Hell or Freebird can't lift my mood then I know I'm having a bad day
Bowf, sometimes like now I’m listening to Off the Wall by Michael Jackson and it’s lifted my demeanour by about 74.666%
Eariler I was listening to 90’s Dance Radio on iTunes and some of it was utter tripe, had to turn the iPad off.
definitely both.
Another vote for both.
and I’m definitely up for some RATM
Both .
RATM \m/
I find mornings unbearable without Tim Lerehau on Classic FM.
Mood almost always dictates what I’m listening to if I’m having a specific music evening. Otherwise I’m listening to whatever’s on my phone in shuffle mode, and yes, certainly there are tracks that can immediately lift my mood.
My choice of music reinforces my mood.
Feeling narky? Pennywise
Feeling sad? Phil Campbell (he of the Temperance Movement)
Full of the joys of spring? The Offspring
Definitely find it can affect mood/energy levels - so by default never listen to anything that could influence downwards. If I'm feeling a bit drained/tired/whatever, I'll play something uplifting/energetic to fix it and get back to a more useful state. Equally, when getting ramped up for something at work, or racing, I've got a playlist that does the trick of turning my energy levels up a notch or 3.
Neither. I mean, bad music distresses me if I'm not in a position to be able to shut it off but beyond that totally non-overlapping magisteria.
Everybody experiences music differently I think. But aye it has all sorts of effects.
Both, though mostly the first. If you don't feel it there's not much point listening to it.
Both, but I tend to find whatever I decide to listen too it leaves me feeling better. Even miserable Mahler - it's cathartic like that.
[i]bad music distresses me if I’m not in a position to be able to shut it off ..
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Same here, massively. (Except I turn it off)
I am a miserable bastard and love miserable music, chicken or egg?