Do you hear the music, feel the music or both?

[K-ness]

We've all been there. We hear a song for the first time and we decide if we like it or would rather not have to listen to it again. But when you are listening to a song that you like, what is it about the music that makes you want to listen to it again? Do you enjoy the sound and find yourself grooving to the beat and singing the lyrics? Does the arrangement, tone, and feel of the song reach out to you, catching onto your heart and never letting go? Is it a mixture of both?

I've always said to myself that I love the music for how well I can feel it when I listen to it, but that isn't entirely true. I find myself singing along or dancing to songs that don't really make me feel much other than happy. Some songs are those from mostly pop/rock/hip-hop artists.

The songs I feel and take emotion from are the ones who write their own music, with lyrics straight from the heart or real-life experiences, music that you know they put a bit of their soul into when they created it, and a power of emotion behind every note and syllable.

So again I ask, do you hear the music, feel the music or both?

[turdburglar47]

It depends entirely on the music.

A really great turn of phrase in a spare, melancholy voice can really move your mind.

A really great beat and hook with the stupidest lyrics in the world can bypass your brain and go straight to your spine until you're swinging your hips and you can't stop moving.

Music hits you how it hits you. Everybody's different.

[K-ness]

It depends entirely on the music.

A really great turn of phrase in a spare, melancholy voice can really move your mind.

A really great beat and hook with the stupidest lyrics in the world can bypass your brain and go straight to your spine until you're swinging your hips and you can't stop moving.

Music hits you how it hits you. Everybody's different.I understand that, but what I want to know is which one do you tend to go for more often? I hear people comment all the time about how they love music, then when you actually start talking to them, you get responses like "Oh, I love Fergie! Her songs are great and she's so talented!" To me, this person tends more towards what they hear as opposed to what they feel from the song. Maybe I'm disconnected, but someone like Fergie has yet to inspire emotion from me. Does that mean I wouldn't listen to her music? Not at all. I just don't feel anything from it. It's more of a "listen" style of music.

I love to listen to Eurobeat, but none of the songs I have ever heard have inspired anything resembling emotion from me. When I listened to Spekkio the Brave (A remix of Delightful Spekkio from the video game Chrono Trigger) I actually got tears in my eyes. I could feel the dedication the artist placed into composing the song. It overwhelmed me in a sea of emotions ranging from sorrow to joy to passion. It felt like I was able to establish some sort of rapport with the composer.

[Big Mac35]

Music is sorta weird for me, I listen to music ALL the time pretty much, all the songs I really enjoy I can connect in some way with the lyrics and relate it to my own experiences, which therefore, makes me listen to lots of songs like bruce springsteen - The River (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgx-zlXeEEs&mode=related&search=)(best song ever btw)

I dunno its hard to explain but Songs that are bathed in emotion appeal to me greatly

[technohead]

I into alot electronic stuff and when playing it in the car... I tend to go much faster. Bad habit, but i can't blame music.

[MatT-COBHC]

Both.

Some songs have really cool melodies or a sweet solo or drums or bass line or hopefully all of those that makes me love the songs...others just put you in a certain mood when you hear them...a song like "Asator" by Amon Amarth just makes me feel invincible and like getting up and lifting a car over my head or something...and the live version of "Chainsaw Guts####" by Mayhem, even though I can't understand a single word, just kinda vents my anger when i'm pissed off...it's so angry and intense that it gets you riled up until you realize how ridiculous it is and I calm down...I like that song in a bad horror movie kinda way, so repulsive and messed up that it's funny.

[Pashmina]

Depends.

Homogenic - Bjork (the best album ever, it's just mind-numbingly perfectly produced and just out of this world in it's greatness) has loads of tracks that do both.

The opening track "Hunter" has "travelling" beats, that send shivers down your spine as they trave between speakers. "Joga", "Bachelorette" and "Pluto" all go inside you and work magic.

On the other hand "Alarm Call" and "Immature" are one's that stay outside your being, and you listen to only.

(BTW, eveyrone should have this album, you're missing out on something beautiful/amazing/violent/peaceful/too good to be true)