Music...

Ahhh music, thats not AHHH MUSIC just to make sure, it's ..oahh music ♥..

Now this is a nice and easy one...

Who can deny the magic of music?

For starters, music can achieve more than a sum of its parts - how miraculous!
What I mean is, the chords alone, the lyrics alone, and the melody alone, don't usually produce any great pleasure or have the capacity to particularly inspire you, however when combined with artistic harmony, can stir you like a stormy sea.

Music helps you relax,
It can make you cry,
inspire you,
scare you,
help you to understand yourself,
heal problems,
calm your mood,
open your eyes to life,
make you more sensitive,
make you happier,
keep you entertained,
create atmosphere instantly,
make you move like you wouldn't in silence,
and bring people together.

But what is it about music that makes it so enjoyable?

No one knows.

There's one theory... that it is comforting, as it reminds us of our mother's heartbeat when we were in the womb.. aww ♥

But really? I'm not convinced...

Music mirrors language - it's recursive, dynamic and rhythmically ordered. So, in the same way we look at a picture and acquire a 1000 words worth of understanding, so too may we be idly gaining a world of depth from the relaxing combination of beats and sounds. But why then do I enjoy an angry horrible sounding screaming man with indecipherable noise half drowning him out (the heavy metal genre)? And why do we melt at the sound of Paulo Nutini but not Girls Allowed?

Is it that their voices speak of their truest essence which in turn speaks to our soul? That they connect on a deep level, embedded somewhere beneath our subconscious, somewhere that forms our very person; the very material that the subconscious has to work with? 

Or...could it be that it drowns out all of our own thoughts, causing us to be transported to another conciousness; notably one that doesn't exist.. therefore resulting in a meditation-like state?

Or is it an evolutionary result of our propensity to certain sounds, like how a high pitched scream is unpleasant and unnerving..?

I don't really know.

But... what I do know is that whichever of these options you side with, if any, or if all, I know that music is untainted by any logic behind it.

There is no amount of clinical reasoning you could devise that would ever detract form the romance of song.

So how cool is that? What an astounding gift, from nowhere, that leads nowhere, other than straight back into you....

SO, next time you are listening to music, know that it is not a logically sound experience (excuse the pun) ..but a profound proof of self existence, an effective tool for subconscious introspection, an effortless mediation catalyst, and a mood enhancing journey through your psyche. Wow.

For your viewing pleasure click here: Sad, soft and sweet or The amazing hardly famous JP Cooper

I defy you not to like the second.. and who really knows why... but who really cares... ♪ ♫ ♩

Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow ✓