Comments by "Cestarian Inhabitant" (@cestarianinhabitant5898) on "Truthstream Media"
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Yeah it's a clear indicator of what kind of music I listened to when I can say I knew every song mentioned for "Aeolian"; every single one, some of them are still favorites (can't say the same for the others). Funny enough today I seem to somewhat lean towards Locrian songs, I actually think they're really beautiful, I really like wherever I may roam, and I sometimes listen to really chaotic sounding bands like Unexpect or The Dillinger Escape Plan and dir en grey; most people can't listen to it, Dillinger escape plan was like a gateway drug that lead to more like it, I didn't like it at first and most people can't listen to it but I just latched on to one song that I somehow liked and now I love it. I think if I were to describe it, it's like the songs create extreme tension with the chaotic compositions, and then they suddenly break it with beautiful melodies, and the contrast the chaos creates for these melodies makes the melodies much more powerful, like a candle in a completely dark room.
After watching this video I am now wondering if my inclination towards Locrian based music could have a correlation to how chaotic my life is, I feel like I can't control anything and my discipline is shot, but I've been working through it. It's like every day is opposite day, the less I care about something the more successful I will be at it, the more I let go of my control the more control I end up having.
When I was overcoming depression I sought out Ionian and mixolydian music, it's surprisingly difficult to find, but to make it easier, just look for upbeat music. Can't go wrong with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M (roundabout!!)
Still, you'd be surprised how hard it is to change your music tastes or to hold back yourself and stop listening to a specific type of music that you know you love, but luckily if you look hard enough there's usually a subgenre within your favorite genre of music that holds what you need. Although if your favorite genre is rap then there's no salvation for you :D
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This is fun, I've experimented quite a bit with this throughout my teens and found that ultimately we don't need all the information in this video to identify which music is good for us and not. Music invokes emotions, you feel these emotions (obviously) and the more you feel the same emotions the more they will become a part of your day-to-day life. So that is how you can identify what type of music you listen to, the rest is just determining which emotions steer your mentality towards feeling in a way that helps you rather than feeling in a way that drags you down. Determining this again is really simple, if those feelings that get invoked are completely positive things that cannot be linked to negative things, you're in the best place you can be, but I don't think anyone is in that place, we hold a strong bias for the music that we like, almost like cult members we most likely cannot even see the evil in it when we look. The strongest confirmation bias you will ever find is in music opinions.
If you say the first minute of this (e.g. morrowind part) doesn't invoke a feeling of yearning in you then you're lying or somehow trying really hard not to feel it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAnQQcIncq0
But is that yearning a positive or negative feeling? This is difficult to decide and normally we will be biased towards whichever opinion suits us, if we really like this song then we will decide it's positive, if we don't, l we will think it's negative. Which is true? I don't know, I'm guessing it depends on the person, so the right question to ask is how does this feeling help or halt you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2m371xLxw (meg myers - go) as a metalhead I was quite surprised by how much I like meg myers, this song for me inspires a feeling of power, energy, decisiveness, all good things, but if you look at it more critically you find that decisiveness is just a pretty word for aggression, so is power (at least as a feeling) but the energy is real good stuff. You will find the answer you want to hear about your favorite music, and the truth? We're not 'completely' at the mercy of the music we listen to if we're fully conscious of the negative aspects of our favorite music we can willfully ignore it or twist it into a positive spin, it's hard to explain, it requires a lot of mental gymnastics to figure out how this can be done. The same method we can use as a basis to shun certain types of music.
If you really want energy though, swing music is the shiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI (Caravan palace - rock it) it can be pretty hard to find these days, but yeah, music that makes it hard to sit still, that's what energy invoking music truly is. No rock nor metal can match up to this for energy, and what's better, it invokes none of the negative feelings often associated with heavier music. It's like a caffeine and sugar free energy drink. There's a lot of better swing bands, I don't particularly like caravan palace, just 2 or 3 songs.
Now let's compare that to instrumental metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm932Sqwf5E (DOOM Soundtrack), it invokes quite a lot of energy, it can almost compete with swing at some parts, but it also invokes aggression and extreme tension, tension which snaps you to attention, but also creates stress, the tension amplifies the feeling of high energy which is how it feels close to swing in energy generation, but like caffeine and sugar, it's harmful in the long term even if it works in the short term. (I'm literally dissing my favorite genre here lol).
But metal isn't all bad, you'd be hard pressed to find a more uplifting song than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ (korpiklaani - vodka) there's no aggression, but it's uplifting, energizing, not a lot of tension, it's a real nice feelgood song... if you can look past the fact that it promotes alcoholism... Other similar bands include Alestorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-Z_psXODw which... promotes piracy instead of alcoholism, but since fewer people are likely to act on those urges, I think it's a pass as an uplifting energizing band :D when they're not also promoting alcoholism :)
Stepping a little outside the window of metal (but not very far) there's Linkin Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU you listen to this? This your favorite music? I'll bet $100 that you're generally a debbie downer and probably depressed, I loved this shit when I was an edgy depressed teenager, I can't stand it now. Is it a good song? Yeah sure, it's a good song, I'll give it that much, But it doesn't make me feel anything positive. It strongly invokes feelings of loneliness and sadness, things like feeling alone versus the world, it does this on purpose, it does it well, so do bands like five finger death punch (yeah back to metal!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_l4Ab5FRwM again, loneliness, alone versus the world theme, mixed with self loathing. These songs are delivered in a way that makes them sound and feel empowering, but they're more like a trojan horse that unleashes and reinforces negative emotions upon you, everyone who's had a tough time (and god knows I'm one) can identify strongly with songs like these, there's a lot of shit to latch on to and attach meaning to in these songs, they make you feel lonely at the same time as they make you realize you're not alone with your feelings (since someone had to have written that song after all) creating a vicious cycle of you pursuing these kinds of songs to run from your loneliness chasing after songs like these which make you end up like a dog chasing it's own tail, the thing you seek out to expel your loneliness is the same thing that's causing it. After I stopped listening to music like this despite nothing changing, and me still being super alone, I stopped being lonely. If you have no thoughts feeding your sense of loneliness, your loneliness dies even if you're still alone. This is a good song, but it spreads misery disguised as empowerment.
I normally listen to things that poison my mind with aggression rather than loneliness, because through some mental gymnastics of mine aggression invocation in music has 0 effect on me, kinda like waves hitting against a wall, I am too much at peace to be aggressive so it's the perfect poison for me since without it I'd probably end up as some sorta hippie lol.
Stepping away from this genre entirely if you want truly motivational and empowering music, trailer music is where it's at! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJj2EpC8vg you'd be surprised how much it has in common with metal. Rather than making you feel alone vs the world it makes you feel ready to take on the world, and win, singlehandedly, delusions of grandeur may occur, but like metal it also creates strong hints of aggression, but it provides such incredible energy and makes you feel like the hero of your own story doesn't it? In general people think this sort of music is over the top, too dramatic. I say it's spot on.
There's also soft piano music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TSKgwvHgho this song makes me tear up right from the get go, I have a serious soft spot for pianos. It's hard to identify the feeling this invokes but my gut tells me that this feeling is what we call hope. Such a powerful emotion. I've never played the game, I have no mental association or context with this song. I remember the same feeling (+ some others) occurring when I turned on a hentai game (not a joke) and the menu track was so beautiful I listened to it all the way to the end, cried a little, lost my boner and turned off the game before I could even hit "new game" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWfdj0K2Ymg (Rakuen no tobira from Euphoria, a hardcore bondage (aka torture) porn game from what I hear), the song caught me completely off guard I was not expecting that from some fucking porn man!
Last but not least, here is an example of perfect execution of video game soundtracks, you won't find this in modern games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWsICxqgt5w a sense of mystery, a call to action, snaps you to attention, fills you with energy, and makes you wanna do lara croft things; reason this isn't in modern games is cus now we have bigger budgets and this sort of thing is the norm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y&index=22&list=PLA69C1EEA3355844F
Music holds a magic power, it can singlehandedly make us experience the full range of human emotions, it can lift us up, it can tear us down, it can make us happy, it can crush us, it is our best friend and worst enemy, pop & rap music sure has been hard at work to become mankinds worst enemy. And just like beautiful flames burn, beautiful songs can burn you too.
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I noticed this shit (or at least came up with a theory that this was a thing) when I was about 14, as in 10 years ago, and I used this to my advantage. I was dealing with depression at the time, I started to slowly shift the music I listened to, and it was a major contributing factor in me curing myself of depression I'd had for 9 years or so. I simply tried to listen to more happy and positive music, and think happy and positive thoughts until I had a psychological shift of some kind where my world view shifted and instead of the world being an ugly shithole, it was beautiful. It felt euphoric, and for 8 years no matter how much shit has hit the fan I've been flat out immune to depression, I got sad or disappointed sometimes, but traumas that people are known for taking years to recover from (such as breakups) took me about 3 days.
I used to listen to a lot of metal usually with depressive lyrics, but it was more depressive as in when you're looking for a certain meaning in something, you will find it, rather than it actually being depressing or angry or sad lyrics, I broadened my musical tastes to include more genres and sought out songs with happy or positive or energizing or motivational lyrics, and then actively tried to force myself to be optimistic and positive every waking second until that shift occurred. After the shift I have started listening to metal again, but it feels completely different, the same songs hold different meaning, I see the world and everything in it in a different light, a better light, and all I really had to do was to choose to do so, to decide that this was how I wanted to see things. The circumstances of my life did not change much at all, the lifestyle that I once considered absolute shit and beat myself up over, became a lifestyle of luxury free of stress, it's amazing how much of a difference you can make in your life by changing how you think, and one of the most effective ways to change it is indeed through music. I would have never had this shift had I not happened to be listening to the exact right type of song at the exactly right time.
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