Blog 11

For the past few days in class we have been talking about how music can illicit different kinds of emotions, recently bad emotions. Higgins addressed how certain types of music can be "evil". I think this is an interesting idea, and I also agree with it to some extent. I think music is highly influential in how people think and see things, I think music definitely has an impact on how people act. Someone who listens to a lot of depressing, emo music all the time tends to follow that kind of lifestyle, however, someone who listens to upbeat music tends to be happier and more positive. Higgins argues in favor of this in so many words, she thinks that "bad" music, whatever she perceives as being bad, can cause the listener to have bad thoughts. This all makes pretty good sense to me, and I can definitely see how listening to certain types of music affects my mood. When I'm listening to positive music I feel good, but when I'm listening to a sad song(s) I sometimes feel down or depressed. Overall, music definitely has some kind of effect, even if it causes the listener to feel nothing, that's still something in the end.