Is Music good for you?

• rlsh07

  3 Feb 08, 01:01

  John Forde wrote an interesting article in Early to Rise newsletter on [Can Music Make You a Better Writer?]. Georgetown University researchers says that music and language use the same type of memory. Not only that, but we unconsciously learn the "rules" of what sounds good in both music and language in the same way. Research from the New York Academy of Sciences says that playing music can make you smarter and beef up your immune system. "How they explain why so many musicians seem to go nuts or die young, I don't know." said Forde.
• sand king

  3 Feb 08, 01:18

  There was a research done and it proved that smart people listened to heavy metal.

   

  Read this

• rlsh07

  3 Feb 08, 01:19

  Originally posted by sand king:

  There was a research done and it proved that smart people listened to heavy metal.

   

  Read this

  
  hmm...
• soleachip

  3 Feb 08, 01:21

  I think it's the same explanation for why poets seem to die young. Imho music, poetry and fiction writing reflect emotional depth and more often than not, pain and longing. People with sensitive natures tend to recognize these qualities but sometimes too much clarity is no good. Two of my favourite writers came across as volatile, passionate and they committed suicide. I think too much awareness in life can cause sensitive souls a lot of destruction.

   

• Trump_Card

  3 Feb 08, 01:26

  Heavy metal is a diverse genre ... Its lyrical themes often involve Life , death , gore , society , politics , nihilism , gore , violence and blasphemy ... Also it emphasizes on musicianship that no mainstream artists today is able to deliver

• rlsh07

  3 Feb 08, 01:27

  Originally posted by Trump_Card:

  Heavy metal is a diverse genre ... Its lyrical themes often involve Life , death , gore , society , politics , nihilism , gore , violence and blasphemy ... Also it emphasizes on musicianship that no mainstream artists today is able to deliver

  
  hmm.. so it's a different kind of music all together?
• Trump_Card

  3 Feb 08, 01:30

  Originally posted by rlsh07:

  
  hmm.. so it's a different kind of music all together?

  There are many sub-genres , just like how rock can be classed into Indie rock , Alternative rock , Emo rock etc ...

• rlsh07

  3 Feb 08, 01:52

  Originally posted by Trump_Card:

  There are many sub-genres , just like how rock can be classed into Indie rock , Alternative rock , Emo rock etc ...

  
  oh i @@ think that research only target to certain smart ppl. because smart cannot be defined in one way though