Like
it or Not
There is an element or elements in the decision of whether we like a
piece of music that maybe most of us may have not
considered. There is more to the choice than just liking
the tempo or the back beat or lyrics. Maybe it's that the
sound of the voice is pleasing for an unknown reason, or maybe one
actually knows that this voice has a resemblance to a voice from a song
in adolescence that somehow is connected to a pleasing
memory. Her voice is reminiscent of the voice on a tune
that was on the charts when I was just starting college or in love with
Lucy. I know for sure that if someone hears a song on the
schoolbus coming home on a Friday afternoon on a beautiful day before
an exciting weekend that has been planning for months you are likely to
keep a positive memory of the feelings you experienced on that
Friday. The opposite might occur on a snowy Monday morning
when school should have been canceled and you were geared up to sit
around and watch TV or sled or skate and the news came on the radio
that your schoolbus will arrive after all. You sit there
boiling and feeling cheated and the new Beatles song comes on and it is
kind of dark or even too happy for the gear you are in so the song
always gives you an out of place kind of emotion when you hear
it. These theories are similar to the Dianetics books of L.
Ron Hubbard in the 80s. Mental engrams or memory files that
go hand in hand when this tune or even one with something similar in it
is playing. I am sure that this occurs on no predictable
level or pattern in some or all people, but it is probably the luck of
the draw or timing and we are usually completely unaware. I
dated a girl and during that beautiful few months at the beginning
where everything is wonderful and makes sense she would always play a
certain artist when we snuggled and he is one of the only contemporary
artists that I really like. Coincidence?
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