Love or hate it, Christmas music has a big impact on our mental health - NBCNewsBETTER
“If you don’t want to hear a song, or are hearing it on repeat for three hours [with no say in the matter], your prefrontal cortex is working hard to filter it out so you can focus,” Freeman says, adding that though she’s not familiar with the aforementioned research about Christmas music being harmful when it’s played too early in the year, it makes total sense that anybody forced to hear a song they’re not a fan of on repeat would start to suffer. “Also, environment is everything.
“There's no one secret chord that unlocks it,” Gentry says of the genre. “It’s a very diverse set, with everything from Mariah Carey to Silent Night. What makes it so unusual, at least in the U.S, is that it’s really the only set of songs we hear widely at the same time of year, every year. We don’t really have that with anything else, which is partly why it can make us so nostalgic.
“You learn it as a child, and it’s one of the few bodies of songs that people have deep inside their memories,” says Gentry. “When I ask my students what are songs you could teach without referencing any [document]? The answer is often a Christmas song.” Keep in mind also that Western music, as Gentry points out, was “designed to elicit emotional responses.” There are some pretty corny Christmas songs , but even if you hate them, you must admit that songs like Silent Night and Carol of the Bells are ridiculously poignant. Perhaps that’s another reason these tunes can be so maddening: How many times can we feel this intense emotional pressure before we beg for it to stop? Well, we’ve got the whole holiday season to find out.
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