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[MyRedNeptune]

I concur with Chronofox. Not for any elitist reasons, I just don't have patience for that shit. Not all pop is bad, but the pop that actually is good is well composed and not intended only (or at all) to accompany dancing. I just don't see why I should listen to music that gives me a headache and makes me feel completely neutral emotionally when I could be having a life-changing experience. It's not my fault I'm fatally serious about everything.

Hearts to you guys, hearts to you.

Pop usually leaves me slightly amused at best and seriously annoyed at worst... to me, catchy means it's gonna get stuck in my head, which means annoying. Don't see the appeal at all!

Also I never understood why people enjoy catchy beats so much. Studies have been done, I believe, on how pop music can put people into a steady and almost hypnotic mood. I'd rather listen to music that allows me to experience a whole range of emotions, as this creates a more rewarding feeling. The pleasure gained from enjoying and understanding a structurally complex piece of music or a composition with a dynamic mélange of emotions is incomparable.

I sometimes enter a hypnotic mood when listening to my favorite music (yes, with all the goodies we enjoy so much!). Technically, hypnosis and "steady, zombie-like mood" are different things. There's dissociation and detachment - coping mechanisms that can be used to deal with stress. While hypnosis is just immersion. They don't exclude each other, necessarily, they're just different things.

but for some reason you never comment on my or Bridge's music in the music thread. meanie.

There are also studies that show that loud and repetitive (pulsating) rhythms cause people to become horny. Add in a little alcohol and the presence of vag and there's nightclubs in a nutshell, so it's not like it's a huge mystery.

Here are my thoughts on how this could work:

Many frequenters of night clubs might be insecure. They need to overcome their insecurities by doing something that goes against these insecurities. They achieve this by drugging themselves with rhythms and alcohol, so as to numb themselves to the unpleasant feelings that would accompany the breaking of personal borders. Of course, once sufficiently drugged, overcompensation can take its toll on their future.

That's the first thing. The second thing is that teens have a need for a feeling of belonging to a larger whole. When you and everyone around you are submitting to a single rhythm, this feeling is accomplished.

How's that for a rationalization?

EDIT: wait a minute, this is the random thread? oh shi--