What makes Music Powerful

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The fact that music is powerful is undisputed. We can wax poetic about the power that music has over us. It can make us happy, it can make us sad. It can motivate us, it can aggravate us. It can heal, it can hurt.

But what makes it so powerful? Why does it it have such a profound effect on us? 

Music gives us instant gratification without providing us with any material thing that we can associate it with. Unlike say, drinking good wine or eating great food. We don't need it, not for the functioning of our bodies or for any other functional reason, but we like it. Oh! we love it! 

What is happening though?

Is it the chemical reactions in our brain that go off when we listen to music? But why should our brain react a certain way to certain melodies? Animals don't show such reactions towards different pieces of music. 

At what point during our evolution did we become enthralled with music? For it was surely us, who created it. What made us do so?
We may have been inspired by nature, but music as we know and enjoy it, can't be found in nature. It is a human creation. 

So, the question is what made us create music? Also, why should we bother about it? Perhaps, because music is extremely powerful. It relaxes us, soothes us, influences us. It is a very powerful tool of giving a message without actually saying it. Thus, it is a great power, which we might not have unlocked to its potential. 

Maybe if we know what made us create music in the first place and when we can understand the exact processes that go on in our brains as we listen to music, we would then be able to utilize it to achieve greater things. For it has already achieved great things. Who knows maybe one day we can make music which drives away mice from our homes? Or causes rains!

 








Another curious things is the wide variety of tastes we all seem to have in music. Everyone listens to music. But not of the same kind. What is that makes me like a certain beat, while making you hate it? It probably depends on the kind of music we have been exposed to. If you are looking to expand your music library, you should check out our top underrated songs that will be the death of you.

We might know about it with more studies and researches dedicated to music and its effects on our brain. Meanwhile though, let us know about what you think happens in our brains while we listen to our favorite songs.