Playlist: Song Analysis

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• This playlist is aimed to assist removing a person from a negative headspace or despondence, lacklustre feelings to a buoyant, motivated state. Music with a slow rhythm begins the playlist to draw out negative emotions, and then transitions into songs of a combined jauntier and sombre note as a bridge between the first and last songs. Finally, it concludes with songs with a faster rhythm, crying out voices, primarily used as a cathartic headspace. Primarily, by enveloping themselves into these songs, listeners will explore their emotions and by belting out lyrics, they will expel their negative feelings.
• Looking at the songs with the most plays in iTunes, scouring previous created playlists, and then putting the selected songs in a combined
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• Its simple, repetitive nature easily slows down the listener 's anxiety, regulating mood by matching those of the listener 's palpations and subconscious thoughts to the rhythm (Zhang, Wang, Yao, Zhao, & Davis 2012), (Sander & Scherer, 2009).
• The stylistic pull of the enunciation of “I” in the chorus: “I had a feeling that I belonged” along with the increased loudness and additional harmonisation appeals to listeners, creating a perception increase in energy (Palmer & Hutchins, 2006).
• Within its element of escapism, ‘Fast Car’ is evocatively relaxing its influencing atmosphere, foster encouraged with its slowed tempo (Schäfer, Huron, Shanahan & Sedlmeier, 2015). These components create a fundamental emotional fusion where listeners, in enveloping themselves within the song have feelings of safety. In these experiences, quintessentially to the nature of the playlist, listeners will modulate their moods within the rhythm, singing along with Chapman. (Clift, Nicol, Raisbeck, Whitmore & Morrison, 2010)

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