A Dutch neuroscientist has released a list of 10 songs that are supposed to make you smile, after analyzing a lot of data.
We already know that music can play on our moods. One song can make us want to move, and another can plunge us into a moment of nostalgia. But if when we're sad and brooding, we tend to listen to depressing music (with ‘The sound of silence 'first in our playlist), there are 10 songs in the world that can make you happy. It was not we who selected them, but the science that says it! We explain to you.
Songs that breathe good humor
As the Mental Floss site reports, a few years ago the British band Alba launched a survey of English and Irish citizens to find out which songs made them happy. They then made a list of the most common songs and sent it to Dutch neuroscientist Jacob Jolij, to ask him why these songs had such an effect. First and foremost, the expert made it clear that musical tastes were very personal and that it was mostly a search for data rather than pure science. Still, there were enough quantifiable factors to draw a conclusion. Analyzing the songs, he found that they all had, on average, a tempo between 140 and 150 beats per minute. That is twenty beats more than the average pop song. And while some songs are written in minor, the majority of them were in major. Also according to Mental Floss, Jacob Jolij also noticed that most of the lyrics were either about positive things or they didn't mean anything at all (maybe that's why we love 'Djadja'?).
Thus, he developed a formula capable of comparing the well-being value of different songs (while specifying, again, that this was not really a scientific fact). His subsequent survey of Dutch citizens reinforced his conclusions, since they chose the same type of music. All this information allowed her to list the 10 songs that make you happy. You won't be surprised to find that they already have in your repertoire!
- Don’t stop me now by Queen
- Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys
- Uptown girl by Billy Joel
- Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor
- I’m a Believer by The Monkeys
- Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cindy Lauper
- Linvin ’we have Prayer by Bon Jovi
- I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
- Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves