Sunday, August 24, 2014

10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Music

Eric Barker  Aug. 16, 2014
Background music does not improve your ability to concentrate but will help you when you’re at the gym. It can affect how you work. A littlebackground noise makes you more creative, a lot hurts creativity.

One of the most interesting music facts in 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 musicianmakes eye contactduring a concert and what they wearaffects whether you like their music.

When times are tough people prefer music that’s more meaningful. Music can predict the stock market. Popular music has been getting more narcissistic for a while now. All the best songs are about sex anyway.

Do you feel these music facts are increasing your intelligence? Well, there’s a lot of evidence that playingmusic can make you smarter. Listening to classical musicmight 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 musicthan conservatives.

Music facts related to money: 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 in restaurants.
Rockstars do really live fast and die young. It can costupwards of a million dollars to make a hit song. Music piracy helps big bands and hurts little bands. “Overall, the Beatles’ lyrics became darker, more psychologically distant, and less immediate over time.”

The music you like does say a lot about your personalitybecause different personality types are drawn to different music.Your personality also affectshow 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. You can tell how conscientiousness and agreeable a man is by watching him dance — and if he keeps dancing he’ll get more creative.
read more: http://time.com/3103753/10-facts-you-didnt-know-about-music/

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