Meditation for July 5th, 2016
Music & Your Brain
We all listen to music, except those who are so boring won’t listen to any music or will just listen to ‘all kinds of music’. Different genres of music shape who we are and how we react to the world around us. We of course, if we have a personality and don’t have to rely on just identity to fit in, listen to different kinds of genres, so we can be very complicated, but for this list I require that you listen to a certain genre of music for four hours or more a week. Anything under that is just dabbling.
When our mind reacts to music, different parts of the brain light up. For instance, when we listen to electronic dance music, our creative side remains black while our social parts light up bright.
After several years of study here at the David Everett Fisher Cracked Pot Meditations Research Labs in the Southwest Hills of Portland, Oregon, this is our results.
Blues: confident, calm, at ease, but close minded, argumentative, picky when it comes to socializing. Blues fans dance when things aren’t danceable, love a loud abrasive guitar solo and terrible singing. Blues fans are traditionalists, conservative and narrow minded to progressive values.
Jazz: extremely creative, introspective and open minded. Jazz fans can’t stand ‘normal’ music. Bored easily and always in search of something new. Jazz fans tend to be stickler to the progression of things instead of a traditionalist or progressive. Jazz fans are annoyed at everything you like and will roll their eyes at anything you say you enjoy. Snobs.
Classical: Old. Usually introverts that prefer a lot of lone time with a cat or thirty. Likes to watch other people without the people knowing they are being watched. Always flirting with complete insanity.
Rap: Angry, passionate from being marginalized or passionate from marginalizing the marginalized. Angry for not having enough or angry for having enough too easily. Either over privileged or under privileged. Never a balanced person. Always not happy where they are, who they are with or who isn’t them.
Opera: Just so tired. Can’t wait to sleep forever.
Country: See Top 40 Pop
Reggae: Too stoned to know who they really are. Thinks that a nasty dictator from Ethiopia is God. Thinks weed is a gift from God. Doesn’t think about anything else.
Dance: So uncreative they listen to a music that literally listens to itself while you just throw your body around to the boom boom noises. Not an intelligent class of folks. Needs social reassurance all the time.
Indie: Never heard of it.
Heavy Metal: Clones. These people are uncreative and use only four set recipes for songs. These people are lazy, dirty, and in a strange young person way, traditional, conservative and against any kind of new or progressive ideas.
Top 40: This is so a person can listen to music and be able to talk to anyone about it. This is why there is so much press about top 40 music and the personalities that make that music is so people hiding their scared insane minds can talk like a normal person. Usually country fans fall under this umbrella, but with a traditionalist view. Basically, people who don’t want to miss out – hates fantasy, but watches Game of Thrones because everyone else is.
R&B: Passionate and loving, R&B fans usually listen to music that makes them feel the love they have never felt in real life.
Punk: Too dumb to listen to anything over three minutes. Or don’t have time because of ADD.
Hardcore: White people mad at white people – self hatred and guilt. A lot like the clones of Heavy Metal, but not into solos. Noodling belongs in pasta.
Any Specific Genre that fits inside of a genre and even the really specific genre that belongs inside of a genre that fits inside of a genre: Help! I’m so fucking special and wants to belong to a tight knit group of people, but I am too scared too so I make myself too different to ever be approachable. Have you ever been to a show an you’re the only one in the crowd?
Polka: Very interested in beer.
Folk: Not interested in anything too complicated. Just wants an easy life. Won’t work hard. Won’t play too hard either. Just wants to chill and hang, dude.