• ‘You Be Tails, I 'll Be Sonic’ has fast paced versus, slowing down at the chorus. The effervescent loudness and rhythm to the melody transitions itself into the listener, reproducing the artist’s sentiment. It has a sense of aggravation in its lyrics, simultaneous with its musical tone imitating anger, frustration, evoking a pulsating inclination to physical be with the temperament in the listener, surrender to the musical sensations (Sander & Scherer, 2009).
• By singing along with ‘You Be Tails, I 'll Be Sonic’, particularly in the chorus, listeners expel their frustrations as they are encased within the music. Alongside the …show more content…
These sounds within the song can develop a sense of musical isolation with the listener, release of everything existing in that temporal space but the music. This can be used to regulate mood, decrease anxiety and augment the listener’s communion with the artist (Giannantonio et al., 2015) (Sander & Scherer, 2009).
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• As the penultimate song in the playlist, ‘Late Nights In My Car’ is utilized as a self-motivating anthem, designed to incite listeners to sing-along and expel their anxiety or melancholy, to escape feelings of despondency (Clift et al., 2010) (Giannantonio et al., 2015). ‘Late Nights In My Car’ is about the past and knowing it is not where the present is, the need to eradicate the feeling of despondency.
• It echoes both its lyrical purpose and musical emotions though its additive fast beat and the differing loudness from the vocals and instruments. These musical properties within the song becomes transitive to the listener, where the listener feels a quasi-feeling of lightening and the yearning to physical expel their misery (Palmer & Hutchins, …show more content…
Non-verbal aspects of music such as rhythm and pitch can be altered to encapsulate an artist’s implication within the song, then translating intuitively into the listener’s subconscious. (Giannantonio et al., 2015)
• Consumption of music can create an all-encompassing atmosphere for those listening, henceforth allowing an escape towards the ambiance of music whilst simultaneously creating a concordance with the music. (MacDonald et al., 2002) Particularly in those not overtly emotional or maintain a facade within others’ perception, music can thusly allow individuals to express and experience their own vulnerabilities and emotions to their inclinations. (Hall & Du Gay,