I feel nothing

There are a few threads spread out among our forum requesting what piece of music evokes sadness. joy, etc while you listen to it. That's all find and dandy, but there are some of us here who find it hard to become so attach to music.

So I ask, what music causes you to feel nothing(in a relative sense) but you still enjoy listening to it.

I occasionally listen to some old Swing music, doesn't really make me feel anything, just sounds really cool

i dont feel anything by Mozart (that i've heard at least, granted i havent heard a lot of it), but i enjoy listening to it in the mornings...it helps me wake up

"Smooth Jazz"

Originally Posted by DOFTS

There are a few threads spread out among our forum requesting what piece of music evokes sadness. joy, etc while you listen to it. That's all find and dandy, but there are some of us here who find it hard to become so attach to music.

I don't tend to 'feel' any emotions per se (i.e. sadness, anger, etc...). I pick up on feelings of energy, and power. I feel when a composer/performer is injecting emotion, but I really don't care what it is.

Originally Posted by robinjessome

I don't tend to 'feel' any emotions per se (i.e. sadness, anger, etc...). I pick up on feelings of energy, and power. I feel when a composer/performer is injecting emotion, but I really don't care what it is.

Yeah, very well put.

DOFTS, if you are interested, there is a guy called Eckhart Tolle who explains this VERY well.



Seriously though, if a piece of music actually made me SAD or ANGRY, if it actually injected those energies into me, there's NO WAY I would be dumb enough to actually listen to that music.

For me there is like a hidden beauty behind the music. If you watch a film like Saving Private Ryan, which contains a lot of death and violence, it doesn't quite have the same meaning/energy as a Quentin Tarantino film that's also based in violence.

Saving Private Ryan says, "Look at what humans did to each other, this is madness." It puts it in a new light, and carries a hidden beauty and awareness.

Whereas Quentin Tarantino just says, "Violence is cool!", and doesn't really address the true consequences or causes.

It's the same kind of thing when comparing a Beethoven piece which conveys anger, and some angry, commercial hip hop tune.

One is powerful, one is weak (forceful).

I don't quite understand the question. Isn't enjoying something a feeling in the first place? Most of the times I don't feel anything like "sadness" or "happiness", but that doesn't mean I don't feel anything (even though it may be hard to describe what I feel). It just may be fascination, or something along this line.

The only music where I'd say I feel "nothing" might be music I feel totally indifferent to and it doesn't interest me in the least. But I really can't imagine "enjoying" this kind of music.

"I feel the snow... I feel the air..."

Originally Posted by Gardener

I don't quite understand the question. Isn't enjoying something a feeling in the first place? Most of the times I don't feel anything like "sadness" or "happiness", but that doesn't mean I don't feel anything (even though it may be hard to describe what I feel). It just may be fascination, or something along this line.

The only music where I'd say I feel "nothing" might be music I feel totally indifferent to and it doesn't interest me in the least. But I really can't imagine "enjoying" this kind of music.

I mostly meant music that doesn't produce any great emotional responds in you , but you still like it. For example, I like the book, Happy to be here, but emotionally, mentally, or anything else, it really doesn't do much for me.

Being emotionless is an emotion. Nothing is still something.