Music choice affecting Betaness?

[TheVoyager]

Do you guys think that the type of music that you listen to can affect how you behave? I am just curious as to what you guys think.

Back in highschool, I was such a beta, I would let people walk over me. I thought that being nice was the way to get girls which was not the case at all (surprise surprise). During this time, my favorite choice of music was like pop and alternative songs that were mostly about love, falling in love, falling out of love, well you get the point....

These days I do enjoy my plurred out trance however when I workout i like listening to much harder, faster trance and house music. It really gets me in the zone.

What do u guys think? Does the music you guys listen to affect how you behave?

 

[djthiago1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b39ALX4neIk

 

[Atom Smasher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBUM1THgaQ

 

[logicallefty]

If sappy AFC love songs are your thing I prolly wouldn't be bragging that to a woman you hope to get with later. I think you are pretty safe with top-40, 80s, rap/hip-hop, metal, classic rock, perhaps even some country so long as it's not sappy country.

I personally think there is something behind the music people listen to. This is just my own observation observing people around my own age, 40. Nothing more than my observation and opinion:

- Top 40 listeners: Just want to go with the flow and times, and maybe be "cool" with their kids

- Country listeners: Folks who have a lot of past scars in their life and want to move on and not have the same life they once did

- 80s listeners: People who are stressed out now and want to go back and remember easier and better times (oh and they were!!)

- Rap/hip hop listeners: People who want to go against the grain and not be goodie two-shoes all the time

- Sappy love song listeners: People who want love in their life or cant get over someone in the past

- Classic rock listeners: People who used to party and maybe smoke weed and miss the partying days

- Metal listeners: People who still like like to party like they did when they are younger

Again, just my take from watching and "listening" to people

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

It definitely does. How else are people able to 'vibe' to the music like they do? Because it makes them feel like they can relate to it.

There is a strange effect on the human mind whenever we hear, feel, or just sense a rhythm in general. Ever heard of the 'runner's high'? It occurs whenever you stay in constant motion in a constant rhythm for a long time. Whenever you hear the pounding of your feet on the ground in the same exact rhythm for an extended period of time, you get into this trance, a focused state of mind that will allow you to keep on running for hours on end. And nothing really enters your consciousness because of that focus. But it can drift into your subconscious the same way how some studies claim that you can learn while sleeping (if you play an audio at night and fall asleep while still listening to it, you can retain that knowledge when you wake up without having actually studied it prior).

It's just a theory/idea though. I could be totally off so don't go getting mad at me if someone proves me wrong. These are just MY beliefs.

 

[BrainDamage92]

Once you got the blues, remeber what I say, you always got the blues.

 

[Suspens]

Yes.

Definitely.

 

[Fin9]

Yes it does affect you. Don't listen to shytty love songs

 

[Mike32ct]

I enjoy some sappy ballads sometimes, but I concede that songs like that probably do hurt men's game.

So the short answer is yes.

 

[FairShake]

Absolutely. Music is emotion both yours and the artist's.

However, music made by pansies is usually better than that made by (c)rappers, butt metalheads, and douche ravers.

So I prefer to listen to music made by people with vocal and instrumental talent and something to say that I can actually understand.

Edit: Before people get hurt I do like trance. But that's the nerdy side of EDM so it's a little beta.

 

[Between_The_Lines]

Definitely.

I know it's an oldie, but I came across Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gru4IfbKlfU) at the most opportune moment, Summer/Fall of 2013, at the height of my furious determination to win back my ex, and my god, what beta-reeking lyrics, what beta-enabling lyrics. I'd listen to it over and over and over, each time thinking to myself "this is exactly my situation - EXACTLY!!!", sinking deeper into a trance-like state of absolute betaness with each repetition.

How I projected the lyrics back on to me and what was really taking place in bold


I guess you wonder where I've been (as if she actually gave a fvck)
I searched to find the love within (my way of rationalizing how I yielded completely to an inner craving for co-dependent expression)
I came back to let you know
Got a thing for you ("thing"? no, ONEITUS... lyrics ought to read "Got ONEITUS for you, and I can't let go")
And I can't let go (I used those exact words the first time she let me know that this little chase of mine to get her back wasn't going to amount to anything)
My friends wonder what is wrong with me (Precisely. That's all I could talk about back then - HER HER HER. How annoying!!)
Well I'm in a daze from your love you see (there's that oneitus again, fvcking sh1t up as per usual! Sighhh...)
I came back to let you know
Got a thing for you
And I can't let go
Some people go around the world for love
And they may never find what they dream of
What you won't do, do for love (Ughhh)
You tried everything (double ughhh)
But you don't give up (double ughhh to the fifty-eighth power)


Gross. I feel like I need to take consecutive showers now. Still love the song though. Strange..

 

[Fr. Andrew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b39ALX4neIk

I love Bing Crosby; I don't see how having good taste in music would inhibit anyone from finding a girlfriend.

 

[Comatozed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM this is weird cos it makes me feel different things at once. the lyrics say one thing and the riff something else