Is this a suitable reply?

[Swag1138]

I read this earlier:

What came first? The music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns and watching violent videos, we're scared that some sort of culture of violence is taking them over...But nobody worries about kids listening to thousands -- literally thousands -- of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

I wrote this as a reply to that:

Music is an echo of what is in our hearts. It cannot create feelings. It cannot form emotions. It has no power over us, other than what we give it.. All music does is give the feelings inside our hearts, the deepest thoughts of our soul, a voice. It lets them speak to us in a way that makes them a little more understandable, a little more bearable. Some question that music causes misery. I contend that music makes the misery survivable. Makes the sorrow a little less intense, the depression a little less deep. We dont listen to music because we want to feel, we listen to music because we want to know somone else feels the same as we do, even in some small insignificant way.

what do you think?

 

[Swag1138]

Anybody?

 

[kt]

I don't know what you both are talking about, but I listen to music because I like it and it is pleasant to the ears. I can't say the same for the pop scene right now though that are overflooded with boy bands. They are just noise.

 

[idNut]

Who are you replying to?

 

[Alphazero]

I disagree with your reply. You say that music cannot create emotions, but I think it has the power to arouse very strong feelings. There's a thread around here with plenty of songs that affect many people very deeply. I'll post a link if I can find it...

 

[Swag1138]

Originally posted by: Alphazero
I disagree with your reply. You say that music cannot create emotions, but I think it has the power to arouse very strong feelings. There's a thread around here with plenty of songs that affect many people very deeply. I'll post a link if I can find it...

It cant bring them around unless they were already there. It does not MAKE you feel, it, more or less, LETS you feel. No song would ever affect anyone on a deep level, unless they already had the feelings that made them listen to that song. Wether or not you knew that you had that emotion, you had to have had it for the music to pull it out. Like I said, all the music does is give your emotions a voice, and it lets them speak to you.



And Im replying to a point a friend of mine brought up.

 

[xBopx]

For the past week or so I've felt a very strong warm and fuzzy glow emanating from my heart(literally)....And listening to the right music enhances the feeling tremendously.