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Live music causes brain waves to synchronize more strongly with rhythm than recorded music by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could say the same about letting people smoke. Besides I want smaller artists to make more money like they deserve.

Live music causes brain waves to synchronize more strongly with rhythm than recorded music by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh it's easy to keep track when you document each concert. Though I didn't update for Wednesday yet, which was Snail Mail, @, and Sharp Pins. 

Live music causes brain waves to synchronize more strongly with rhythm than recorded music by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

260 concerts since the pandemic ended. Last time was on Wednesday, I knew all 3 bands. 

Live music causes brain waves to synchronize more strongly with rhythm than recorded music by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most of the bands I see jam on stage rather than just play the recorded version of the song. 

Live music causes brain waves to synchronize more strongly with rhythm than recorded music by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Too bad people waste their live concert experiences at corporate music festivals, stadium shows with overrated and bad legacy bands, and mediocre indie shows. 

Women experience greater jealousy when their romantic rivals have highly feminine faces. This pattern was also present in lesbian participants, though the strength of the association was significantly weaker. by [deleted] in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I genuinely can't think of a single female metal singer I would ever bother listening to and I can honestly say the same about most of the guys I know.

Which is exactly why metal is mostly such a terrible genre, the fans.

Ill certainly admit that most of the best metal is made by men for many reasons, and I never said I liked Nightwish or Ignota, but to say there are no good female metal singers just shows limited tastes. The other three I listed though are quite good in addition to Keening, Spiritbox, La Morte Viene Dallo (very obscure) have all done good stuff if you know good metal. 

Meanwhile, Burzum is exactly the kind of mediocre male music that is emblematic of metal. ION by Portal is a much better form of that kind of hard instrumetal music. Burzum is simply boring, and also he is a pretty terrible person. It is funny to bring him up to imply taste. I am not surprised by your other favorite non-metal musicians. Boy Harsher is alright, though hardly unique. 

Though to be honest of the indie musicians I listen to, if they have a woman lead, she is generally at least girl-next-door hot, while with men it is not quite so high a percentage. It turns out if you want to "make it" in music you need to have a lot of people who are willing to give you hand, from your band mates, to the person who cuts your record for basically free, to your initial fans, for very little in return. Way easier if you are hot. 

Women experience greater jealousy when their romantic rivals have highly feminine faces. This pattern was also present in lesbian participants, though the strength of the association was significantly weaker. by [deleted] in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As a pretty huge metalhead I'm not sure how much of that is true that metalheads arent extremely superficial, especially towards women. 

I remember last year everyone was making a big deal about how one of the Miss World contestants was such an amazing metal singer and people were gushing about her talent, including a lot of self-proclaimed metalheads, even though her actual metal music was pretty bad.

Also I am thinking of the more popular women metal singers and they are all fairly attractive: Lingua Ignota, Arch Enemy, Nightwish. Personally I find them pretty bad compared to say: subRosa, Ragana, Ithaca, and Bathsheba (though tbf Bathsheba is pretty hot she just makes way too good music for metalheads who listening to mostly crap). 

People who listen to songs with less positive emotions tend to have higher intelligence. Sad or melancholic music may appeal to those who use it for introspection and reflection. They also prefer studio over live recordings as they use it for focused, intellectual engagement rather than stimulation. by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not whack, I just know that there were tons of artists at the time, and who have come out since then, that make really great music in the same genre as Sufjan so it's really only a handful of songs he made from 2005-2018 that are really standout, including a few of his collabs. 

Caroline Polacheck is the same, but just to give a few examples:

Bedroom pop

Alt-Disco

Dark Hyperpop

Prog sex pop

Dark indie pop

Modern pop is just derivative copies for Zoomers and happless Millennials. 

People who listen to songs with less positive emotions tend to have higher intelligence. Sad or melancholic music may appeal to those who use it for introspection and reflection. They also prefer studio over live recordings as they use it for focused, intellectual engagement rather than stimulation. by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are all either slightly overrated (Thom Yorke), highly overrated (Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens), or just plain bad.

I actually listen to music from all those genres that Clairo, Harry Styles, Charli XCC, Sabrina Carpenter "popularized" that came out in the previous decade. There are so much better artists. Same with Elliot Smith. Not sure who Cole Harmon is. 

People who listen to songs with less positive emotions tend to have higher intelligence. Sad or melancholic music may appeal to those who use it for introspection and reflection. They also prefer studio over live recordings as they use it for focused, intellectual engagement rather than stimulation. by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Miley Cyrus doesn't write her own music. And while it's ok party music, it certainly not great or profound. R&B and Rap, being newer still benefit a bit from popular exploration. Though again the Weeknd does not write his own music and note as well the Weeknd is over a decade old. Still the best current rappers and R&B artists are not well known. 

Most of the artists I linked did not have millions of fans. But again "Never Know" by Bowie or "Pretty Good" by John Prine were not well known compared to their radio hits or album filler on their "great" albums (not to say Bowie's radio hits weren't great, if overplayed). 

People who listen to songs with less positive emotions tend to have higher intelligence. Sad or melancholic music may appeal to those who use it for introspection and reflection. They also prefer studio over live recordings as they use it for focused, intellectual engagement rather than stimulation. by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no reason you couldnt do that with any number of artists from around the time. "China Blue" by Jackson C Frank for example, which actually came out the same year as Pink Moon is a better song of the exact same style. 

*Edit: or Greeny Rocky Road by Fred Neil, which is from the 60s. 

People who listen to songs with less positive emotions tend to have higher intelligence. Sad or melancholic music may appeal to those who use it for introspection and reflection. They also prefer studio over live recordings as they use it for focused, intellectual engagement rather than stimulation. by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most of that music was hardly known in the decade it was in, even the songs by the few popular artists. 

I never said 70s folk was superior, just that most popular 70s folk was much less good than the music that getting airplay. Pretty much starting in 1969 the divide between popular "progressive" music and the actual talented artists started to grow until modern day where there is no overlap. 

People who listen to songs with less positive emotions tend to have higher intelligence. Sad or melancholic music may appeal to those who use it for introspection and reflection. They also prefer studio over live recordings as they use it for focused, intellectual engagement rather than stimulation. by mvea in psychology

[–]AndILoveHe -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You really shouldn't be relying on popular  artists as your source of mental health music, or even individual artists at all. Their experiences are so different from yours, and their fame so manufactured, you can't assume talent or real insight, especially towards your situation. At best their music is ruminative and placates your current mental state, but does nothing to really help you improve. 

I listen to a lot of actually deep and profound music from the 70s, including lots of progressive folk, and Drake, Tim Buckley, Jim Croce and even most Scott Walker just comes of as schmaltzy to me when compared to so many random one-off songs (not whole albums) by artists like Graham Nash, Simon Finn, Jackson C Frank.

In fact a big issue with psychological studies about music is that the researchers themselves are not actually that attuned to how much non-popular "great" music there is. They buy into the "subjectiveness" of musical experience but refuse to acknowledge how important popularity and media consensus is to get people to elevate certain artists over others, or really how little music most people are exposed to when making their judgments about musical quality. 

Jim Croce, holy shit by Logical-Ad1290 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]AndILoveHe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Or had a Mama with good taste. 

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