I'm sure that pretty much everyone understands that a persons taste in music mostly depends on their mood at that exact moment. I also understand this, but I don't understand why.
I mean, music is music. Once you decide that you like a certain type, it shouldn't matter when you play it or not, right? But it does. Like, right now as I'm writing this, I'm listening to Family Force 5. A little bit harder rock, but not like, say, screamo. I'm playing it because I'm not in a ridiculessly good mood, but in a bad enough mood to play, say, Underoath. (Not that I would really play Underoath even if I was in a really bad mood. I mean, it's not that I don't like them, but they're more comic relief for me than anger relief. Sorry to those out there that love Unederoath, but you have to admit that the different extremes in their voices as they switch off screaming is pretty funny.)
So what is it with playing the peppy pop/techno songs only when you're in an up-beat mood? Or only playing... well, nevermind. I don't think there is a mood for country (again, no offense).
Or maybe it actually has very little to do with the actual music and everything to do with the lyrics. Because, after all, who wants to listen to "Everytime We Touch" when they just had a huge fight with their parents or something?
Honestly, it's probably a little of both. When I'm angry, I want something with a strong bass that I can feel pulsing, but I also like the lyrics relating to what I'm feeling.
I hate to say it, but this whole thing just ties into that old saying that they shove down our throats from the time we can walk till we move out, and sometimes even longer than that.
"It's all about the attitude."
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Music is interesting. Not only is it another art, and therefore a form of expression for the composer, but it's also a language (sort of). You'd be attracted to certain pieces based on mood because, since art is expression of emotion, that music reflects that emotion.
And as a language, you interpret different kinds of music as expressing different feelings. Someone who speaks Mandarin and has never heard European music will have a drastically different reaction to Beethoven's 9th than someone who is raised in a European manner (ie you and me).
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