Interesting facts you didn't know about Music

Since the SAMAs are close we thought of giving you interesting facts about music and how it can affect, influence, motivate your everyday decisions.

One of the most interesting music facts is that your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life. Both social influences and quality affect which songs you like. You don’t like the original version of a song because it’s better, you like it because it’s the one you heard first. Whether a musician makes eye contact during a concert and what they wear affects whether you like their music. Here are some of the interesting music facts :

• When times are tough people prefer music that’s more meaningful.

• Background music does not improve your ability to concentrate but will help you when you’re at the gym. Music can affect how you work and little background noise makes you more creative, a lot of it hurts creativity.

• Playing music can make you smarter. Listening to classical music might increase that IQ as well. (And smarter people like classical music.) Music can literally affect the way you see the world and lyrics can influence your behavior. Liberals own a wider variety of music than conservatives.

• Bar owners get you to drink more by turning the music up. Love songs and romantic music make you spend more in flower shops. Classical, jazz and popular music make you spend more money at restaurants.

• It can cost a lot of money to make a hit song and music piracy helps big bands and hurts little bands.

• The music you like does say a lot about your personality because different personality types are drawn to different music. Your personality also affects how you use music.

• You get some of your musical taste from your parents. The music you’ll like when you’re old is probably what you were exposed to between ages 16 and 21.

• Country music can make you want to kill yourself but rock music won’t. Classical is the most relaxing. People who like heavy metal don’t have issues. Jazz musicians actually “turn off” part of their brain to be more creative.

• Romantic music does help men pickup women and also music can persuade you to do unethical things. Good music can increase pain tolerance and reduce anxiety. Melodies are more responsible for how music makes us feel than lyrics.

• People who really like music are more likely to get songs stuck in their head and the best way to deal with an “earworm” is to just accept it.

SOURCE : Bakadesuyo.com