Can Music Really Affect Your Mood?
Most people listen to music at some point almost every single day, but can it actually affect your mood? The answer is yes, it absolutely can!
According to Healthline, there is research currently that suggest music can reduce anxiety levels and boost happiness. There is even evidence that sad music can lift your mood.
Music is a large part of human life and how we communicate and perceive different things.
For many centuries different researchers have wondered that type of therapeutic effects music might have, if any at all.
According to a study from PLOS ONETrusted Source, most listeners actually get pleasure and comfort from listening to sad music. However, the study also found that some people feel negative feelings like grief when listening to sad music.
A lot of people listen to sad music as a form of therapy. Most who do listen to it gain comfort and a place to regulate from it.
Tuomas Eerola is a professor of music cognition at Durham University and lead author in this study. “The results help us to pinpoint the ways people regulate their mood with the help of music, as well as how music rehabilitation and music therapy might tap into these processes of comfort, relief, and enjoyment,” Eerola stated.
There is also research out there that is focused on how upbeat music can bring joy.
In 2013, there was a study shown in Journal of Positive Psychology about this upbeat music. It concluded that a majority of people who listened to upbeat music would have a boost in happiness in as little as two weeks. The upbeat music would also help to improve their mood anytime they listened to it.
Five Riley Green Songs Everyone Should Know
Riley Green is one of country music’s most talked about up-and-coming superstars. He released a new album dubbed Ain’t My Last Rodeo on October 13. The 12-track project is named after a song on the album, “My Last Rodeo.” The singer wrote the song following one of the final conversations he had with his late Grandaddy Buford while in the hospital.
Riley attributes his Grandaddy for his musical appreciation, education, and inspiration. Riley said, “I was fortunate enough to grow up within about three miles of my grandparents, so they were a huge part of my growing up and who I am—and this album is a lot of who I am. This is really the first time I was able to really take my time, write, and record songs that really felt like a cohesive album.”
He added, “I’m really proud of it and want to thank the fans for all of their encouragement—I hope y’all enjoy it.”
Green also has a song with Jelly Roll on the project as well as a cover of Tim McGraw’s “Damn Country Music.”
The new album also includes Riley’s current single, “Different ‘Round Here (feat. Luke Combs).” He told me of being on Luke's stadium tour in 2023, “I certainly learned a lot. It’s a different show. You know, I think I am a lot more drawn to the smaller acoustic venues and the more intimate setting. It’s completely different, so there is a lot I had to learn to fill up a big stage like that and to appeal to fifty-thousand people.”
He concluded, “I definitely learned a lot about a live show, and it really put me in front of a lot of new potential fans. It was a great opportunity. I think me and Luke have a lot of the same fans.”
As Green’s star continues to rise in country music, we gathered five songs of his that we think everyone should know.
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