Marien
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02-02-2008 11:19 AM -
Streets is an amazing song, it always works for me, especially if I'm having a really rough time, whenever I feel I would start shouting in rage or I would sink under the pressure, I play the song and I feel as if was letting my feelings leave...I don't know... to the space, and, out of a sudden, I feel happy again. If I'm home alone or in my car back from work, I sing along with Bono and I feel an almost physical relief (but remember, I will always deny doing it before anybody outside this forum).
Streets may be the most spectacular at this, but there are some other songs I experience similar feelings like Beautiful Day, Mysterious Ways, Elevation and Vertigo.
Different songs can change my mood in different ways, I used to start crying when listening to One the time I was splitting up from my boyfriend, and well there could be many examples of this kind, I have always thought it is due to the way you relate your own feelings to those expressed in the songs.
I remember a National Geographic documental about human behaviour (I can't recall the title), in one of the chapters they were analysing human feelings such as love, rage, etc. and then they made an experiment with music showing how music can shift your feelings or can make them more intense, they explained it by the frequency of the notes, the general rythm and intonation?, I mean the musical phrase going up or down, but there wasn't any particular scheme about which note does what, etc. so what I really learned is that it is a universal phenomenon and that music brings magic to your life somehow, not sure it is the Holy Spirit or simply the writers' spirits shown there.
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