Let's Make Slow Essay

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People like music for a variety of reasons. However, if one were to truly analyze the commonality between those reasons, one would arrive at the understanding that in its most quintessential form, music is a means of expression that stirs the emotions. When performed correctly, it is perhaps better than any other medium of art for stirring the feelings of its audience.

With that point being made, one can understand that people like music because they like the feeling it gives them. On an extremely basic level, people like music because it makes them feel good. However, what feels good to one person may not feel good to another, and different music is created to express different emotions and to give people different feelings. Some people like music that helps them to relax and set the mood in a way that they can feel composed and simply decompress. Other people like music that is seductive, and which is romantic and can enhance things such as natural scenery or beauty.
Still others like music that is raucous, and which can issue an imperial feeling of power, majesty, and possibility that is difficult to attain without music. The intoxicating quality of this type of music is self-evident: it can take people so metaphorically 'high' that they begin to look for other things to sustain that sort of high. However, as a wise record producer once denoted, nothing gets one high like the music does.

People learn to like the music that they like from their environments, for the most part. If there is someone who grows up in a single parent household without any brothers and sisters, such a person's environment may come to consist of watching a lot of television and spending hours alone on the internet. The music that is found throughout those two mediums will inevitably influence the type of music that such a person likes. Families (and parents….....

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