When I was learning piano, my dad hated classical "long hair" music. One day, I was practicing a piece. He stood behind and slightly above me, watching my hands. After I finished the piece, he told me it was the most beautiful music he had ever heard. He was actually crying (he never cried)l He said he had never seen anyone's fingers move so quickly and the piece made him actually feel like he was next to a stream listening to the water. He actually started listening to classical music on his car radio and on the radio in his office. He "borrowed" (permanently) several tapes of mine. All he had ever listened to was country from the 50's and some rock from the same era. Before he died, he converted his wife to the same kind of music. Strange huh? A parent changed his taste in music because of his kids. He loved Mozart, Beethoven and his absolute favorite songs was Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and the Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata". Bach moved him also. He started listening because of the MASH episode where Radar was told to say "Ah Bach". For two weeks now, I have had an ear worm. It's a jingle for a car dealership from where I lived as a kid. I remember all the words as well about "Downtown Chevrolet" in Oklahoma City where I lived as a kid. I even keep singing it. Help!
Was your dad a “hard work” person? Like, someone who appreciated or thought that a hard days work was worthy on its own merit? I ask because my armchair psychology says that after watching you play, seeing the amount of work you put into it, your hands working fast and with high precision, that it may have caused that part of his brain to link the music with the concept. I have noticed such effect with other things. Disparaging hobbies as being a waste of time until they see how much work, how hard, or what level of skill goes into it. In most cases they may not convert, yet their level of adversity decreases, and they can gain even a moderate amount of respect for such things.
I get my obsession with music from my dad. I'm a millennial, and he is a boomer, so people are surprised he listens to Green Day, for example, but he is open to us introducing him to new artists. He doesn't like all of it (Billie Eilish isn't his cup of tea), but he's at least open to listening to it to come to his own conclusion. While my dad doesn't listen to much rap (he used to hate it since it didn't exist when he was growing up, so he didn't understand it), I think after Hamilton and the "This Is America" music video, he at least respects the genre now. While most people will prefer the music from their teens, people who truly appreciate it as an art form will be open to expanding their musical experience.
When I first got my kitten, she was super afraid and insecure. I was such a sap for that cat that I played cat music for her at night and I kept on a nightlight for her
Omg, i was worried about my bunny feeling lonely at night cuz she would act up so I would always put on diferente “bunny music” from UA-cam for her! It did make her feel better :)
being dutch, its weird hearing earworm/oorwurm being used scientifically xD they say its german, but its dutch. could be the same in german tho. my german isnt so good.
I had no idea that people didn't experience frissons. They're something I use to gauge my interest in artists, and even when I try to write my own music.
@@michagrill9432 Oh, I don't know if I'd call it arguing. That sounds so unfriendly. I prefer to think of it as having a spirited discussion on a difference of opinion. 😁
I'd never heard the Imogen Heap song before now, and yeah I had a lot of the tinglies. I also got to find out that it's the song 'mmm what'cha say' comes from, so that was an interesting surprise.
Drums do this to me every time. Drums I can feel through my entire body. Taiko drums, Indigenous drumming, Chinese drums, a rock drum set, tympanic drums, snare drums, hand drums, it doesn't matter. Some have a stronger effect than others (for me, I respond stronger to the lower toned drums that rumble), but they ALL do it. I love them and I can break out in tears listening to them, too. I get shivers from them, although I don't often get the goosebump effect. Now that I think about it, bass and baritone voices do the same thing to me. LOL. Maybe I'm just wired to react stronger to lower pitches. :)
Sometimes when I'm listening to music, doesn't matter what genre, a certain chord or sequence of chords can actually make me cry! No idea why that should be.
Hey SciShow, I and many others have a condition called Specific Musical Anhedonia, meaning we can't experience emotion from music. Think that'd make a good video subject? I'd love to see what kind of stuff you guys can dig up. I've not been able to find much personally.
@@jameshardwick7440 Oh yes, thank you. I looked it up. Sounded flippin awful! Lol I was imagining people with worms slithering out of their ears - nightmare provoking!! 🤣🤣
I played Pink Floyd's comfortably numb to my 75 year old cousin yesterday. She said 'Thank god that's over' afterwards. Amazing the different effects a piece can have, I find it amazingly moving.
'Hide and seek' did nothing for me. Never heard about it before. Sounds like someone having a stroke while operating the synthesizer. 'Comfortably numb' (David Gilmour - live in Pompeii 2016) does indeed give me an eargasm. Those solos, the third in particular, are just mindboggling.
I didn't like either of them, but comfortably numb actually did something for me. Not like the strong feels I get for my favorite songs, but still some feels.
I experienced the mere exposure effect when I worked with a bunch that liked to listen to classic rock. I wasn't into it at first, but it grew on me. Conversely, riding the school bus listening to country music permanent associated it with misery and suffering in my mind. It wasn't just that I hated the bus, but also lots of other sources of misery and suffering at that time in my life.
I have zero ability to recognize notes because I’m a perfect percussionist but Music absolutely means everything to me and almost every popular song ever reminds me of many significant life events
I gotta know the science behind that uncontrollable lifting feeling you get in your chest from a set of powerful pleasant rising notes. My best example (for me at least) is a lot of Lindsey Sterling's music, her violin skills are insane.
I have a couple different chronic health issues, and when my pain meds are not enough, I have a play list of songs that give me shivers because the endorphins released help with the pain...
@Kayla Kat The golden age of music production for sure. 2000ish to 2014ish especially. It seems to have faltered a bit in recent years I think because the newness of the age and technology has slightly worn off. But I could also just not be looking hard enough.
Best way I have to stop an ear worm is to sing the Lamb Chop song, “This is the Song that Never Ends” until my brain refuses to think on its own. Kind of like beating it into submission. Sometimes just thinking of doing so stops the ear worm without even resorting to singing it
I wake up to a song in my head every morning, different songs, and only once did I not know the song well already. No idea where that music came from. I find it interesting that my brain picks out theme music for the day. I don't consider those earworms. When I do get one (stuck in a chorus and don't know the lyrics but the beat got stuck up in my head) Bohemian Rhapsody is my favorite earworm breaker because I know the song well enough to sing it all the way through to the end. Also, it's long enough and varied enough that you won't be able to keep the beat of the other song.
My birds like certain songs over others by the same singer. They start singing and dancing not all my birds like the same songs but hearing them more often seems to make them like them more.
at about 15:30 when talking about animals and music, I was reminded of a study decades ago that said cows gave more milk while listening to the classics than they did when listening to rock and roll.
On the topic of Goosebumps, is it normal to be able to give yourself Goosebumps on demand, like if you stare intensely of something stop and then we focus on the same spot I sent chills throughout my whole body and I get goosebumps and I can essentially keep doing it for as long as they like and it keeps working to more or less the same degree
I get it strongly, not just with music but cinema too, and even talking about certain things that I'm passionate about, gives me the same goosebumps, eyes welling up and literal hair on arms standing on end... I feel bad for people who don't get this.
"Sunlight (Adagio in D Minor)" by John Murphy for the movie Sunlight gives me frissons without fail. The tension and release is phenomenal. "Nuvole Bianche" by Ludovico Einaudi is another great one.
I'm such an oddball when it comes to music. The music my parents were into, I'm not. And while I still like many songs from my teens, there's a lot of music from back then that I have since grown to dislike, and I find myself continuing to like new music just as much, and sometimes more than the music I grew up with. If I'm understanding what perfect pitch is correctly, then I have it but I couldn't play a tune to save my life. I can hear a song being played and tell when a note was the wrong one, or if it was sharp or flat. But I never made that association of a name or meaning to the note even after 7 years of choir.
I went through a spell, of having assorted "Mom music" pop into my head. I was working in a department store, and my job involved being all over the place every day. Finally I was back by the freight elevator one day, and with no other sounds around I really "heard" the Muzak (piped in music) that was always there, but never really listened to.
Judy Garland's performance where she is dressed up as a hobo and sits on the edge of the stage and sings "Over The Rainbow" gives me all the feels (which I now know are frisson)
Wow! Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland album especially was the first music that I was exposed to as an infant and young child in the late 1960's. Jimi's melodic playing especially gives me goosebumps even now. I consider myself rather lucky in this respect. Jimi Hendrix was a musical genius and master bar none.
My music taste has changed drastically over time (20 years old, going on 21) I went through the goth ‘phase’ so I listened to multiple genres of heavier music (like metal music and a bit of synth wave here and there) but I grew out of that sorta and now I’m big on like pop music that ranges all the way back to my childhood (including some songs my parents told me not to listen to 😆) but I also enjoy the whole K-Pop trend and just uplifting music general. Music is so weird how it can set your whole ‘vibe’ for the day or whatever Edit: Also, as a Texan, it is something to think about the fact I Never have and Never will enjoy country music, despite the amount of exposure to it. 🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️
That's an **excellent** suggestion! I have synethesia, and I "hear" colours as sounds and sometimes, vise versa, so listening to a piece of music that engages my brain in "daydream mode" will fill my mind with whole landscapes of colours, flashes and seemingly-random swirls. I often listen to complicated pieces with my eyes closed (like Classical Orchestra, or some of the more out there Psytrance stuff like Hallucinogen's or Juno Reactor's work), because of the layering used in the musical style--with all of the different instrument sections--and I can "see" the colours better. My preferred genres are Goth/Industrial, Psytrance Techno, New Wave, '60's and '70's Classic Rock, some Country and Rap. Non-Western forms of music, like Balinese Gamelan, or Indian Ragga/pop can often give me that frisson, and a lot of fun with the colours as my brain tries to keep up. LOL Also, if I watch a silent video, my mind will create the sound for it mentally. It's nothing that makes sense, aurally (like speech, traffic noises, or a horse's hoof-beat would make sense for those images), they're just random noises that "fit" the movements of what's on-screen, especially if they're rhythmic. I'm a drummer, too (mediocre in skill, really), 'cuz ever since I was a kid, I could "see" and "hear" music and rhythm in the world all around me. Just wish I was a better composer. :-p
@@DrachenGothik666 That's amazing! You're much more of a synesthete than I. I see each number, day of the week, month and year in it's own colour, and associate scents and colours, but that's nothing compared to you! 👍
The very first segment is called 'Why does music give us chills? (0:50). Stephan starts with this "If you've ever been listening to music, and suddenly felt a shiver, like a kind of strage chill that runs along your spine and makes the hair on your arm stand on end? Congrats! " He then explains what happens physiologically in you body. I imagine that it's that fact that explains the term skin orgasm, you feel it throughout your whole body.
Weird thing with frisson. As an Aspergian I don't normally have too much emotion, but I do experience really strong frisson. I've also discovered, that if you relax into it and just listen to the music, you can make it even more extreme.
Gee, thanks for spreading stereotypes. If you "don't normally have too much emotion" that's a YOU thing that you can't blame on Asperger's Syndrome; that's not one of the diagnostic criteria, and it's quite uncommon for anyone with any kind of autism to claim to have few emotions. Use the bit of emotion you have to realize that when you spread stereotypes like that you are HURTING those of us who are real autistics and have to deal with society's assumptions they make about us based on what YOU say about yourself but attribute to all of us because you don't know the difference between diagnostic criteria and a personality trait. Friggin' jerk. I'm sure you won't mind me pointing out what a jerk you are, since you are autistic and therefore a robot, right? See? Get it yet? Ignorant stereotype-spreading jerk.
@@stephencoldbear I don't mind at all, your opinion is your own. Like mine is. Here is the DSM diagnostic criteria that you are surely aware of. Not a big step to link these to a problem with emotions, as it's what most of human nature is based around, that's my opinion and makes sense to me, didn't mean to spread stereotypes, that was rather unfortunate. I'm obviously not lacking in emotion as I wouldn't have the frisson effect, just that they don't seem to work in the 'Normal' (NT) way. DSM IV Criteria for Asperger's Disorder* marked impairments in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to regulate social interaction. failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level. What's worse than having Asperger's? Being a snowflake with Aspergers, and an opinionated one at that... Guess you don't mind either. Tip: Learn not to talk down to people, a common problem when you have Aspergers. NT people don't appreciate that... Take a look here under the section entitled: The understanding and expression of emotions: www.tonyattwood.com.au/about-aspergers-m This guy is an expert on the subject, so... Well I'll let you make up your own mind.
_As an Aspergian I don't normally have too much emotion_ Is that what you think Asperger's Syndrome entails? Ypurs is just another self-diagnosis based on thinking Sheldon from TBBT is "a hoot!"
@@AlbertaGeek It's actually how I am, it's how a lot of fellow Aspergian's are (and I've met plenty), it is also known that we process emotions differently (lack of emotional understanding; an expert on the subject states that - Tony Attwood) - to an NT it comes across as somewhat emotionless/strange (yes, I've actually asked 'normal' people) - that is what I was trying to say. I would have thought you'd get that if you were Aspergers too - communication difficulties - like ambiguous sentences etc - you know what you mean, but say it incorrectly, assuming everyone thinks the way you do - but you'd already know that if you were Aspergers. I was actually diagnosed as an adult, very late on but it explains a lot. My instinct tells me you are just another internet troll with a comment like that - trying to elicit a response. Well you got one, hope you enjoy it [the respose].
Idk about that being related to asperger's, man. I was diagnosed at 8 and sort of re-diagnosed as a teen and I've always experienced extremely deep and powerful emotion. Putting a name to them and figuring out what to do with them was a struggle for quite some time though and I still have to fight to keep my cool if someone pisses me off. But I think most with the diagnosis do experience pretty strong emotions, though maybe not quite to my level. It's just that recognizing and processing them in healthy and socially appropriate ways is tough. Hopefully you're able to get more in touch with your feelings one day. It'll help you better understand yourself and the people around you and your life will be the better for it :) on the subject though, I get goosebumps weirdly rarely from music, but the few songs that do it, do it without fail. I try not to listen to them too often though for fear of weakening that effect. LSD makes frissons way more common for me though.
Omg. The perfect pitch thing. I have that! I used to tell my dad when his guitar strings needed adjusted. He actually tested me with a guitar tuner and i was 100% correct. I never played an instrument,but from a musical and creative family.
If you want to listen to something that will give you chills, definitely listen to Water Night by Eric Whitacre!! Pretty much any of his songs will do it, though, I just really like that one 😊
That was freaking crazy. I listened to hide and seek and was ugly crying within a few seconds. chills and all... Never had such an intense reaction to a song before!
Maybe I'm just an oddity but my first "shivers" were from listening to my country's (Guatemala) national anthem. I'm not a nationalist but the impact of the lyrics got to my heart and shook my soul.
The golden age of music thing is really interesting. My parent's teenage years were in the early-mid 60s, and mine were in the early-mid 00s. My musical tastes are mainly in the 50's-early 70s and late 90s-late 00s. Pretty spot-on with the theory that parents pass on their musical tastes to their children.
I've red somewhere that trying to finish (thinking about the end of the song or even imagining your own) the song stuck in your head might help, well it actually worked for me, since it's quicker and easier than doing something for the brain, especially if you're at work or study and can't focus because of it.
And also, "perfect pitch" can exist without *any* classical musical training. There are many musical genius who couldn't name the note, but they knew what worked and what didn't. Some incredibly talented musicians never learned scales, or how to read music.
I can't remember where I found this but supposedly fans of heavy metal have brains that work the same way as classical composer's. Metals complex and technical structure is very similar to classical orchestral pieces.
Quite a few Metal musicians are Classically trained, so some of their insaniac guitar-fingering skills... **drools in envy** Some are vocally-trained in more formal modes of music, too, so they have far more control over their voices than a lot of folks assume. People really sell Metal short when they just think it's a bunch of mullet-headed stoners screaming into a microphone.
Ahhh, the Golden Age of SciShow... Michael, Stefan, Olivia, of course Hank, (& Brit over on Psych) 😍 I have to come back and rewatch these old ones sometimes just to feel like they're still a part of my routine.
Music allows for a feeling to be exchanged with out explanation. (Rate silence as golden, a picture is worth a thousand words, and feelings to be volumes upon volumes and memory and time.)
I've found myself to experience the "Mere Exposure Effect" multiple times and it still shocks me. I do take the time to listen to a tune but if it doesn't resonate with me right away, I just move on and forget about it. My taste in music has changed over the years, from me not feeling the same way with my favorite songs and enjoying songs that I previously did like. Also, after listening to epic, orchestral and classical music while studying, I found that I can no longer hear instrumental music in movies as simply a background. I can study with similar music just fine, but when I am watching a moving with moving music, I am promoted to focus on the music instead of the current scene, which probably is not the intention of the background music. This was really interesting video, thank you SciShow for sharing the knowledge on why we like music!
My best way to oust an earworm I figured out when I was a kid - write 'em out, however much you've got stuck. Always feels like acknowledging their significance, past or present, in my life by giving them written form . . . I don't know, it frees them.
I definitely wake up with songs in my head. The biggest earworms for me are whistle songs like: Scorpions - Winds of Change, Guns n Roses - Patience, Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers, and the Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian.
"People interupted in the middle of a task will remember the task" clearly this theory has never met someone with ADHD because this has never once been true for me if you interupt me I will stare mindlessly into the void desperate to remember and then get mad.
I can relate. **NEVER** interrupt me during a task--it'll never get finished! I have ADHD pretty bad, to the point where even medication barely helps with the focusing. It mostly just helps to keep me awake (I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, too). :-(
When I get an earworm.... I shove that song down its throat (by playing the song over and over and over and over and over...) until the earworm cries out for mercy.
Also, perfect pitch can definitely be developed as an adult. You have to practice alot to make it work though. I didn't have perfect pitch when I was young but I can get within a 5th pretty reliably and, with a couple secs, guess it spot on by humming a tune with the note as the root. I can't guess which octave correctly for sure, though, and higher notes where I can't discern the 2nd harmonic are tricky cause I have to transpose them down octaves.
My only hesitation with this explanation is the "unexpected" aspect. There are songs, movements, that I know like the back of my hand. But they still give me shivers.
Maybe it has to do with the unexpected nature of those musical changes and choices the first time you heard the song, and your brain makes that connection and holds on to it even when you're super familiar with the music later on? Just a thought.
When I read in the doctor report, stating I have perfect pitch at 8, I didn't believe it.... then Hank played the notes... and I knew them directly! I was shocked! That's why I learned to play the violin in a year.🤔
I first noticed the "frisson" experience in college with good chocolate, leading to our friend group calling them "foodgasms." Good thing they don't require food.
My little elderly dog will at times stand staring at a particular acoustic guitar of mine. If I pick that guitar and start playing she'll lay down right in front of me and listen till I stop playing. It's quite adorable :-)
I get a "frission" everytime I listen to last night goodnight hatsune miku when it hits the chorus, I used to be obsessed with it cause it just makes me feel so relaxed like I'm way above the clouds, thanks for reminding me how much I enjoy that song 😁
I came up with a "Cure Song" when I was 12 yrs old and have never looked back. However, I've also noticed that when I look at my life, (I'm 66 yrs old now) I have a sound track throughout. Hmmmmmmm . . . Also, my thoughts about frissons = try for more studies about frissons using a vast array of ages - as I think that a study done with college students is ineffective. College students are ALWAYS getting the 'chills'!!
I think, because our brains are essentially prediction machines, music gives us the super satisfying experience of successfully predicting a stream of auditory stimulus for minutes on end, freckled by mispredictions, the dissatisfaction for which is instantaneously and delightfully extinguished by the rapture of penalty-free surprise. -Phill, Las Vegas
I get "frissons" or whatever you like to call them from this song almost every time I listen to it. Syava - Not Destined (Koan Remix) - Official. It's a bit late into the song but I think the build up to it is part of what makes it so satisfying.
Wow! I had no idea there was a Word for it! I get Frisson a lot during classical music and have always thought I was weird to enjoy it. Then I found TwoSet violin this year!! Now sci show have explained what is happening and part of why :)
In line with Christmas, you may be moved by Pentatonix' "Mary, sis you know". Otherwise, you may want to listen to Röyksopp's "What Else Is There?".. Sure, some people may call it "mainstream", but the harmonics of voices is the thing that would often give me those chills - or "frissons". Excuse my French..
Why is it that I quiver when the music makes me shiver? Tell me why, Oh please tell me why? Is it the melody of the song? Could my feelings be so wrong? Tell me why, Oh please tell me why? I know it's not the beating of the drum! And why I just wrote this is just one of those things I do. Ideas and thoughts just flash through my mind and hard to capture at times. By the time I gather up paper and pen the thought vanishes almost as quickly as it came.
The earworm bit is interesting, I used to have a lot of earworms when I was younger. So much so that I couldnt sleep sometimes. To combat that I learned how to meditate and be more relaxed before sleep. One of the meditation techniques I use to kill earworms nowadays is actively putting a stop to them in my head. I usually do this by actively overriding the earworm with another sound memory in my head, usual a short "stoppage sound" but also other songs. The more stubborn ones are sometimes hard to find in my mind, but when find and "stop" them they go away leaving a silent mind. You could consider this action as resolving the "unfinished song" with a stoppage, which confirms the theory
When I get an ear worm, it's usually from a song that I only know a line or two. If I look up the complete lyrics the ear worm tends to go away. and my favourite Christmas tune: "Fleas on my Dog" ;p
Eargasms I get from studio recordings often make it nearly impossible for me to enjoy the same songs played live in concert, because the artists never play them exactly the same way live as they did in the studio, and I'm disappointed when I don't hear my expected "eargasm hooks". But if the artists change the style of the songs completely, say from Hard Rock to Unplugged, I can listen to them with "fresh ears" and enjoy them on their own merits. My favourite example is the original "Layla" (loaded with eargasms for me) vs. the unplugged version (no eargasms at all, but I still love it). 😊
When I was learning piano, my dad hated classical "long hair" music. One day, I was practicing a piece. He stood behind and slightly above me, watching my hands. After I finished the piece, he told me it was the most beautiful music he had ever heard. He was actually crying (he never cried)l He said he had never seen anyone's fingers move so quickly and the piece made him actually feel like he was next to a stream listening to the water. He actually started listening to classical music on his car radio and on the radio in his office. He "borrowed" (permanently) several tapes of mine. All he had ever listened to was country from the 50's and some rock from the same era. Before he died, he converted his wife to the same kind of music. Strange huh? A parent changed his taste in music because of his kids. He loved Mozart, Beethoven and his absolute favorite songs was Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and the Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata". Bach moved him also. He started listening because of the MASH episode where Radar was told to say "Ah Bach".
For two weeks now, I have had an ear worm. It's a jingle for a car dealership from where I lived as a kid. I remember all the words as well about "Downtown Chevrolet" in Oklahoma City where I lived as a kid. I even keep singing it. Help!
Link to the jingle?
Was your dad a “hard work” person? Like, someone who appreciated or thought that a hard days work was worthy on its own merit? I ask because my armchair psychology says that after watching you play, seeing the amount of work you put into it, your hands working fast and with high precision, that it may have caused that part of his brain to link the music with the concept. I have noticed such effect with other things. Disparaging hobbies as being a waste of time until they see how much work, how hard, or what level of skill goes into it. In most cases they may not convert, yet their level of adversity decreases, and they can gain even a moderate amount of respect for such things.
I'm a clarinet, saxophone, and piano player. Gershwin was a musical genius, along with Finzi, and Schumann.
I get my obsession with music from my dad. I'm a millennial, and he is a boomer, so people are surprised he listens to Green Day, for example, but he is open to us introducing him to new artists. He doesn't like all of it (Billie Eilish isn't his cup of tea), but he's at least open to listening to it to come to his own conclusion. While my dad doesn't listen to much rap (he used to hate it since it didn't exist when he was growing up, so he didn't understand it), I think after Hamilton and the "This Is America" music video, he at least respects the genre now. While most people will prefer the music from their teens, people who truly appreciate it as an art form will be open to expanding their musical experience.
When I first got my kitten, she was super afraid and insecure. I was such a sap for that cat that I played cat music for her at night and I kept on a nightlight for her
Omg, i was worried about my bunny feeling lonely at night cuz she would act up so I would always put on diferente “bunny music” from UA-cam for her!
It did make her feel better :)
Being French, it's so weird to hear that "frisson" is used scientifically 😂
Also comfortably numb is AMAZING.
I see it as an adult lullaby.
You should listen to The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish. Headphones, close your eyes....
Not my cup of tea... Oxygene, L'orchestre sous la pluie, Pavaroti, Mozart, Superman 78 theme, the imperial march on the other hand...
being dutch, its weird hearing earworm/oorwurm being used scientifically xD they say its german, but its dutch. could be the same in german tho. my german isnt so good.
@@zwartkatdre „Ohrwurm“ It's the same word. Es ist das gleiche Wort. Het is hetzelfde woord. Germanic languages can be crazy that way...
I had no idea that people didn't experience frissons. They're something I use to gauge my interest in artists, and even when I try to write my own music.
“A powerful stretch of notes in a song”
*plays the licc*
I’m s o g l a d I’m not the only one who noticed this
“A powerful stretch of notes in a song”
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Pianists. . beware your scales lol
I get a hategasm from Christmas pop songs. Cant endure them!
P Heart: ua-cam.com/video/MhgN6Et9sYw/v-deo.html
can't stand ANY pop songs lmao
Same. I love 80s/90s/00s songs.
Hearing especially favorable music feels like an immense dopamine flood that overtakes my entire body. What a feeling.
9:15 'A' to 'B' is a whole step.
He might have meant C to B, having just been talking about being able to identify the former, which *is* of course a half step.
@@markchapman6800 True but, if you look at that staff, the note moved from A to B. Careless animation, perhaps.
Hahaha some music nerds arguing 😂 welcome to the club 🤪
@@michagrill9432 Oh, I don't know if I'd call it arguing. That sounds so unfriendly. I prefer to think of it as having a spirited discussion on a difference of opinion. 😁
@@johnopalko5223 hahahaha 😄
I'd never heard the Imogen Heap song before now, and yeah I had a lot of the tinglies. I also got to find out that it's the song 'mmm what'cha say' comes from, so that was an interesting surprise.
Ebby imogen heap gang gang
Drums do this to me every time. Drums I can feel through my entire body. Taiko drums, Indigenous drumming, Chinese drums, a rock drum set, tympanic drums, snare drums, hand drums, it doesn't matter. Some have a stronger effect than others (for me, I respond stronger to the lower toned drums that rumble), but they ALL do it. I love them and I can break out in tears listening to them, too. I get shivers from them, although I don't often get the goosebump effect.
Now that I think about it, bass and baritone voices do the same thing to me. LOL.
Maybe I'm just wired to react stronger to lower pitches. :)
Sometimes when I'm listening to music, doesn't matter what genre, a certain chord or sequence of chords can actually make me cry! No idea why that should be.
I get that. Especially with Pink Floyd.
Fun fact: Sharks are attracted to death metal because the vibrations are similar to injured fish.
If true that is indeed an interesting factoid.
Brutal
That's metal af
Is anyone really surprised by this fact? Sharks are among the most metal creature on the planet, of course they'd be into death metal.
DrSharkBoy Thank you, this knowledge is highly valuable
Michael screaming “JUST DO IT” made my day
Right?! XD so good
Caught me off guard but funny as hell
@@aceofthesky1247 same here, but because my real last name IS Just
Cool
Didn't he scream that at a boy?
To those who don't experience frisson: I am so very TRULY sorry. You are missing a part of life I consider to be vital...like breathing.
Hey SciShow, I and many others have a condition called Specific Musical Anhedonia, meaning we can't experience emotion from music. Think that'd make a good video subject? I'd love to see what kind of stuff you guys can dig up. I've not been able to find much personally.
Thats fascinating =O. Do you still enjoy music, or are songs the same as any other noise to you? If you do enjoy music, do you have a favourite genre?
Being an Australian, I just love indian and Spanish Music.....
I donno But they give me kinda goosebumps.........
i used to have earworms but now i have tinnitus. i guess its an upgrade
ear bees? lol
Earworms? Wtf?
Wow. I'm sorry to hear that. A friend has it and it's debilitating.
@@amethyst1826 it’s not actually a worm in your ear, just the word for when you don’t like that you are addicted to a song
@@jameshardwick7440 Oh yes, thank you. I looked it up. Sounded flippin awful! Lol
I was imagining people with worms slithering out of their ears - nightmare provoking!! 🤣🤣
I played Pink Floyd's comfortably numb to my 75 year old cousin yesterday. She said 'Thank god that's over' afterwards. Amazing the different effects a piece can have, I find it amazingly moving.
I have to agree with your cousin
Finally it's over!
-> My thoughts exactly.
'Hide and seek' did nothing for me. Never heard about it before. Sounds like someone having a stroke while operating the synthesizer.
'Comfortably numb' (David Gilmour - live in Pompeii 2016) does indeed give me an eargasm. Those solos, the third in particular, are just mindboggling.
EmilGlockner try listening to great gig in the sky by Pink Floyd. Does it fit me every time
I didn't like either of them, but comfortably numb actually did something for me. Not like the strong feels I get for my favorite songs, but still some feels.
Yeah! I watched the Gilmour performance on YT. It's incredible!!!
I get a frisson at the mere mention of the name Gilmour. Really.
I experienced the mere exposure effect when I worked with a bunch that liked to listen to classic rock. I wasn't into it at first, but it grew on me. Conversely, riding the school bus listening to country music permanent associated it with misery and suffering in my mind. It wasn't just that I hated the bus, but also lots of other sources of misery and suffering at that time in my life.
I get chills from all kinds of emotions and experiences and its common. I thought everyone did?
I have zero ability to recognize notes because I’m a perfect percussionist but Music absolutely means everything to me and almost every popular song ever reminds me of many significant life events
I gotta know the science behind that uncontrollable lifting feeling you get in your chest from a set of powerful pleasant rising notes. My best example (for me at least) is a lot of Lindsey Sterling's music, her violin skills are insane.
One sure way I find to feel frisson is to listen to Nightwish. When Floor ascends to her higher soprano, shivers are certain to follow
I have a couple different chronic health issues, and when my pain meds are not enough, I have a play list of songs that give me shivers because the endorphins released help with the pain...
There isn't a golden age of music. There's good music and bad music and both are made all the time.
Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. ...
@@JohnSmith-qq7fm who are your favorite bands?
@Kayla Kat The golden age of music production for sure. 2000ish to 2014ish especially. It seems to have faltered a bit in recent years I think because the newness of the age and technology has slightly worn off. But I could also just not be looking hard enough.
Thanks!
Best way I have to stop an ear worm is to sing the Lamb Chop song, “This is the Song that Never Ends” until my brain refuses to think on its own. Kind of like beating it into submission. Sometimes just thinking of doing so stops the ear worm without even resorting to singing it
I can turn on the frisson feeling on command. I can create that tingle in my spine if I just try to. It feels good
I wake up to a song in my head every morning, different songs, and only once did I not know the song well already. No idea where that music came from. I find it interesting that my brain picks out theme music for the day. I don't consider those earworms. When I do get one (stuck in a chorus and don't know the lyrics but the beat got stuck up in my head) Bohemian Rhapsody is my favorite earworm breaker because I know the song well enough to sing it all the way through to the end. Also, it's long enough and varied enough that you won't be able to keep the beat of the other song.
I used to hear Confortably Numb while go to school in the morning, it really gave me that "sweet goosebumps"
My birds like certain songs over others by the same singer. They start singing and dancing not all my birds like the same songs but hearing them more often seems to make them like them more.
at about 15:30 when talking about animals and music, I was reminded of a study decades ago that said cows gave more milk while listening to the classics than they did when listening to rock and roll.
I absolutely *love* dissonance when it's used well.
On the topic of Goosebumps, is it normal to be able to give yourself Goosebumps on demand, like if you stare intensely of something stop and then we focus on the same spot I sent chills throughout my whole body and I get goosebumps and I can essentially keep doing it for as long as they like and it keeps working to more or less the same degree
I get it strongly, not just with music but cinema too, and even talking about certain things that I'm passionate about, gives me the same goosebumps, eyes welling up and literal hair on arms standing on end... I feel bad for people who don't get this.
"Sunlight (Adagio in D Minor)" by John Murphy for the movie Sunlight gives me frissons without fail. The tension and release is phenomenal.
"Nuvole Bianche" by Ludovico Einaudi is another great one.
I'm such an oddball when it comes to music. The music my parents were into, I'm not. And while I still like many songs from my teens, there's a lot of music from back then that I have since grown to dislike, and I find myself continuing to like new music just as much, and sometimes more than the music I grew up with.
If I'm understanding what perfect pitch is correctly, then I have it but I couldn't play a tune to save my life. I can hear a song being played and tell when a note was the wrong one, or if it was sharp or flat. But I never made that association of a name or meaning to the note even after 7 years of choir.
I went through a spell, of having assorted "Mom music" pop into my head. I was working in a department store, and my job involved being all over the place every day. Finally I was back by the freight elevator one day, and with no other sounds around I really "heard" the Muzak (piped in music) that was always there, but never really listened to.
I just finished listening to the greatest christmas song ever written.
"Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" by Tom Waits.
Judy Garland's performance where she is dressed up as a hobo and sits on the edge of the stage and sings "Over The Rainbow" gives me all the feels (which I now know are frisson)
Wow! Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland album especially was the first music that I was exposed to as an infant and young child in the late 1960's.
Jimi's melodic playing especially gives me goosebumps even now.
I consider myself rather lucky in this respect.
Jimi Hendrix was a musical genius and master bar none.
My music taste has changed drastically over time (20 years old, going on 21) I went through the goth ‘phase’ so I listened to multiple genres of heavier music (like metal music and a bit of synth wave here and there) but I grew out of that sorta and now I’m big on like pop music that ranges all the way back to my childhood (including some songs my parents told me not to listen to 😆) but I also enjoy the whole K-Pop trend and just uplifting music general. Music is so weird how it can set your whole ‘vibe’ for the day or whatever
Edit: Also, as a Texan, it is something to think about the fact I Never have and Never will enjoy country music, despite the amount of exposure to it. 🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️
5:55 i do not have empirical evidence, but i have the funk gene...
I'd love to hear a compilation on neural conditions that affect our perception of music, such as musical anhedonia, Williams Syndrome, and more.
That's an **excellent** suggestion! I have synethesia, and I "hear" colours as sounds and sometimes, vise versa, so listening to a piece of music that engages my brain in "daydream mode" will fill my mind with whole landscapes of colours, flashes and seemingly-random swirls. I often listen to complicated pieces with my eyes closed (like Classical Orchestra, or some of the more out there Psytrance stuff like Hallucinogen's or Juno Reactor's work), because of the layering used in the musical style--with all of the different instrument sections--and I can "see" the colours better. My preferred genres are Goth/Industrial, Psytrance Techno, New Wave, '60's and '70's Classic Rock, some Country and Rap. Non-Western forms of music, like Balinese Gamelan, or Indian Ragga/pop can often give me that frisson, and a lot of fun with the colours as my brain tries to keep up. LOL
Also, if I watch a silent video, my mind will create the sound for it mentally. It's nothing that makes sense, aurally (like speech, traffic noises, or a horse's hoof-beat would make sense for those images), they're just random noises that "fit" the movements of what's on-screen, especially if they're rhythmic. I'm a drummer, too (mediocre in skill, really), 'cuz ever since I was a kid, I could "see" and "hear" music and rhythm in the world all around me. Just wish I was a better composer. :-p
@@DrachenGothik666 That's amazing! You're much more of a synesthete than I. I see each number, day of the week, month and year in it's own colour, and associate scents and colours, but that's nothing compared to you! 👍
The very first segment is called 'Why does music give us chills? (0:50).
Stephan starts with this "If you've ever been listening to music, and suddenly felt a shiver, like a kind of strage chill that runs along your spine and makes the hair on your arm stand on end? Congrats! "
He then explains what happens physiologically in you body. I imagine that it's that fact that explains the term skin orgasm, you feel it throughout your whole body.
Being an Australian, I just love indian and Spanish Music.....
I donno But they give me kinda goosebumps.........
Weird thing with frisson. As an Aspergian I don't normally have too much emotion, but I do experience really strong frisson. I've also discovered, that if you relax into it and just listen to the music, you can make it even more extreme.
Gee, thanks for spreading stereotypes. If you "don't normally have too much emotion" that's a YOU thing that you can't blame on Asperger's Syndrome; that's not one of the diagnostic criteria, and it's quite uncommon for anyone with any kind of autism to claim to have few emotions. Use the bit of emotion you have to realize that when you spread stereotypes like that you are HURTING those of us who are real autistics and have to deal with society's assumptions they make about us based on what YOU say about yourself but attribute to all of us because you don't know the difference between diagnostic criteria and a personality trait. Friggin' jerk. I'm sure you won't mind me pointing out what a jerk you are, since you are autistic and therefore a robot, right? See? Get it yet? Ignorant stereotype-spreading jerk.
@@stephencoldbear I don't mind at all, your opinion is your own. Like mine is.
Here is the DSM diagnostic criteria that you are surely aware of. Not a big step to link these to a problem with emotions, as it's what most of human nature is based around, that's my opinion and makes sense to me, didn't mean to spread stereotypes, that was rather unfortunate. I'm obviously not lacking in emotion as I wouldn't have the frisson effect, just that they don't seem to work in the 'Normal' (NT) way.
DSM IV Criteria for Asperger's Disorder* marked impairments in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to regulate social interaction. failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level.
What's worse than having Asperger's? Being a snowflake with Aspergers, and an opinionated one at that... Guess you don't mind either. Tip: Learn not to talk down to people, a common problem when you have Aspergers. NT people don't appreciate that...
Take a look here under the section entitled: The understanding and expression of emotions: www.tonyattwood.com.au/about-aspergers-m
This guy is an expert on the subject, so... Well I'll let you make up your own mind.
_As an Aspergian I don't normally have too much emotion_
Is that what you think Asperger's Syndrome entails? Ypurs is just another self-diagnosis based on thinking Sheldon from TBBT is "a hoot!"
@@AlbertaGeek It's actually how I am, it's how a lot of fellow Aspergian's are (and I've met plenty), it is also known that we process emotions differently (lack of emotional understanding; an expert on the subject states that - Tony Attwood) - to an NT it comes across as somewhat emotionless/strange (yes, I've actually asked 'normal' people) - that is what I was trying to say. I would have thought you'd get that if you were Aspergers too - communication difficulties - like ambiguous sentences etc - you know what you mean, but say it incorrectly, assuming everyone thinks the way you do - but you'd already know that if you were Aspergers. I was actually diagnosed as an adult, very late on but it explains a lot. My instinct tells me you are just another internet troll with a comment like that - trying to elicit a response. Well you got one, hope you enjoy it [the respose].
Idk about that being related to asperger's, man. I was diagnosed at 8 and sort of re-diagnosed as a teen and I've always experienced extremely deep and powerful emotion. Putting a name to them and figuring out what to do with them was a struggle for quite some time though and I still have to fight to keep my cool if someone pisses me off. But I think most with the diagnosis do experience pretty strong emotions, though maybe not quite to my level. It's just that recognizing and processing them in healthy and socially appropriate ways is tough. Hopefully you're able to get more in touch with your feelings one day. It'll help you better understand yourself and the people around you and your life will be the better for it :) on the subject though, I get goosebumps weirdly rarely from music, but the few songs that do it, do it without fail. I try not to listen to them too often though for fear of weakening that effect. LSD makes frissons way more common for me though.
Omg. The perfect pitch thing. I have that! I used to tell my dad when his guitar strings needed adjusted. He actually tested me with a guitar tuner and i was 100% correct. I never played an instrument,but from a musical and creative family.
If you want to listen to something that will give you chills, definitely listen to Water Night by Eric Whitacre!! Pretty much any of his songs will do it, though, I just really like that one 😊
That was freaking crazy. I listened to hide and seek and was ugly crying within a few seconds. chills and all... Never had such an intense reaction to a song before!
Because the Soviet National Anthem gives me goosebumps!
You murdered millions.
@@domowoi2077 GO TO GULAG NOW
It's a powerful song
That anthem really is amazing, I think
I have to admit, despite what anyone thinks of Communism, the melody is very inspiring emotionally more than most anthems.
Maybe I'm just an oddity but my first "shivers" were from listening to my country's (Guatemala) national anthem. I'm not a nationalist but the impact of the lyrics got to my heart and shook my soul.
The golden age of music thing is really interesting. My parent's teenage years were in the early-mid 60s, and mine were in the early-mid 00s. My musical tastes are mainly in the 50's-early 70s and late 90s-late 00s. Pretty spot-on with the theory that parents pass on their musical tastes to their children.
I've red somewhere that trying to finish (thinking about the end of the song or even imagining your own) the song stuck in your head might help, well it actually worked for me, since it's quicker and easier than doing something for the brain, especially if you're at work or study and can't focus because of it.
I love musical dreams. I can experience my favourite songs in ways I never could in real life.
And also, "perfect pitch" can exist without *any* classical musical training. There are many musical genius who couldn't name the note, but they knew what worked and what didn't. Some incredibly talented musicians never learned scales, or how to read music.
One time I had an earworm for a full week! It was "The Sound of Silence" and it was driving me crazy!
I had "Rocky Raccoon" stuck in my head once, I was going to call animal control, but didn't think they'd understand.
I had Panzerkampf by Sabaton stuck in my head yesterday
INTO THE MOTHERRLAND THE GERMAN ARMY MARCH!!
@@larsswig912 Sabaton make the best earworms
I can't remember where I found this but supposedly fans of heavy metal have brains that work the same way as classical composer's. Metals complex and technical structure is very similar to classical orchestral pieces.
Quite a few Metal musicians are Classically trained, so some of their insaniac guitar-fingering skills... **drools in envy** Some are vocally-trained in more formal modes of music, too, so they have far more control over their voices than a lot of folks assume. People really sell Metal short when they just think it's a bunch of mullet-headed stoners screaming into a microphone.
Ahhh, the Golden Age of SciShow... Michael, Stefan, Olivia, of course Hank, (& Brit over on Psych) 😍 I have to come back and rewatch these old ones sometimes just to feel like they're still a part of my routine.
I wake up with songs in my head probably 50% of mornings
One of my cats loves listening to Freddy Mercury sing.
Hide and Seek & Comfortably Numb have both given me chills, and I love them both. A+ recommendations.
Why do I love Deep House so much? It takes me there and I experience total euphoria with some songs.
I think it's partly because it's so cyclical and usually few lyrics, it lets you go where your mind wants to. Johnny M in the mix!
Just chilling in for 9:15, moving from A to B is a whole step, not a half step lol
Great videos y’all 👍🏽👍🏽 Been watching for the past few months
Olivia, thanks for hosting such a delightful clip show for the holidays. Happy New Year, SciShow!!!
Music allows for a feeling to be exchanged with out explanation. (Rate silence as golden, a picture is worth a thousand words, and feelings to be volumes upon volumes and memory and time.)
I love Symphonic Metal of any age.
I've found myself to experience the "Mere Exposure Effect" multiple times and it still shocks me. I do take the time to listen to a tune but if it doesn't resonate with me right away, I just move on and forget about it. My taste in music has changed over the years, from me not feeling the same way with my favorite songs and enjoying songs that I previously did like. Also, after listening to epic, orchestral and classical music while studying, I found that I can no longer hear instrumental music in movies as simply a background. I can study with similar music just fine, but when I am watching a moving with moving music, I am promoted to focus on the music instead of the current scene, which probably is not the intention of the background music. This was really interesting video, thank you SciShow for sharing the knowledge on why we like music!
When the cacophony of family fights drown out the Christmas jingles... I don't find the music all that pleasant anymore...
1:09 was that The Licc?
YES! "Powerful stretch of notes!"
Indeed!
My best way to oust an earworm I figured out when I was a kid - write 'em out, however much you've got stuck. Always feels like acknowledging their significance, past or present, in my life by giving them written form . . . I don't know, it frees them.
Sometimes, I listen to part of a song over and over again, until I get it stuck in my head. So that I can listen to music and do tests in school.
I definitely wake up with songs in my head.
The biggest earworms for me are whistle songs like:
Scorpions - Winds of Change,
Guns n Roses - Patience,
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers,
and
the Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian.
"People interupted in the middle of a task will remember the task" clearly this theory has never met someone with ADHD because this has never once been true for me if you interupt me I will stare mindlessly into the void desperate to remember and then get mad.
I can relate. **NEVER** interrupt me during a task--it'll never get finished! I have ADHD pretty bad, to the point where even medication barely helps with the focusing. It mostly just helps to keep me awake (I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, too). :-(
Music Therapy major here! Thanks for the facts to make my elevator speech much easier when explaining my major.
Music is wonderful and can be thought of as auditory code.
When I get an earworm.... I shove that song down its throat (by playing the song over and over and over and over and over...) until the earworm cries out for mercy.
You overworked the earworm :')
Also, perfect pitch can definitely be developed as an adult. You have to practice alot to make it work though. I didn't have perfect pitch when I was young but I can get within a 5th pretty reliably and, with a couple secs, guess it spot on by humming a tune with the note as the root. I can't guess which octave correctly for sure, though, and higher notes where I can't discern the 2nd harmonic are tricky cause I have to transpose them down octaves.
My only hesitation with this explanation is the "unexpected" aspect. There are songs, movements, that I know like the back of my hand. But they still give me shivers.
Maybe it has to do with the unexpected nature of those musical changes and choices the first time you heard the song, and your brain makes that connection and holds on to it even when you're super familiar with the music later on? Just a thought.
@@semaj_5022 Actually, that makes a lot of sense.
To me, it never works twice for the same song/video.
When I read in the doctor report, stating I have perfect pitch at 8, I didn't believe it.... then Hank played the notes... and I knew them directly! I was shocked! That's why I learned to play the violin in a year.🤔
I got tested after teaching myself piano by ear. I didn't realize it was that unusual for quite some time.
I first noticed the "frisson" experience in college with good chocolate, leading to our friend group calling them "foodgasms." Good thing they don't require food.
Maggot brain by funkadelic is just a continuous eargasm of emotional leaps, comfortably numb is amazing but isn’t close in pure ‘frissonness’
My little elderly dog will at times stand staring at a particular acoustic guitar of mine. If I pick that guitar and start playing she'll lay down right in front of me and listen till I stop playing. It's quite adorable :-)
I get a "frission" everytime I listen to last night goodnight hatsune miku when it hits the chorus, I used to be obsessed with it cause it just makes me feel so relaxed like I'm way above the clouds, thanks for reminding me how much I enjoy that song 😁
I came up with a "Cure Song" when I was 12 yrs old and have never looked back. However, I've also noticed that when I look at my life, (I'm 66 yrs old now) I have a sound track throughout. Hmmmmmmm . . .
Also, my thoughts about frissons = try for more studies about frissons using a vast array of ages - as I think that a study done with college students is ineffective. College students are ALWAYS getting the 'chills'!!
I think, because our brains are essentially prediction machines, music gives us the super satisfying experience of successfully predicting a stream of auditory stimulus for minutes on end, freckled by mispredictions, the dissatisfaction for which is instantaneously and delightfully extinguished by the rapture of penalty-free surprise. -Phill, Las Vegas
The happy birthday song that restaurants sing you is has been stuck in my head for literally a year.
Merry Christmas SciShow!
I get "frissons" or whatever you like to call them from this song almost every time I listen to it. Syava - Not Destined (Koan Remix) - Official. It's a bit late into the song but I think the build up to it is part of what makes it so satisfying.
Wow! I had no idea there was a Word for it! I get Frisson a lot during classical music and have always thought I was weird to enjoy it. Then I found TwoSet violin this year!! Now sci show have explained what is happening and part of why :)
Music is Spirit
I was told I have perfect pitch, but it was defined as being able to differentiate between tones of less than 1/10th variation in pitch.
In line with Christmas, you may be moved by Pentatonix' "Mary, sis you know". Otherwise, you may want to listen to Röyksopp's "What Else Is There?".. Sure, some people may call it "mainstream", but the harmonics of voices is the thing that would often give me those chills - or "frissons". Excuse my French..
Why is it that I quiver when the music makes me shiver?
Tell me why,
Oh please tell me why?
Is it the melody of the song?
Could my feelings be so wrong?
Tell me why,
Oh please tell me why?
I know it's not the beating of the drum!
And why I just wrote this is just one of those things I do. Ideas and thoughts just flash through my mind and hard to capture at times. By the time I gather up paper and pen the thought vanishes almost as quickly as it came.
The earworm bit is interesting, I used to have a lot of earworms when I was younger. So much so that I couldnt sleep sometimes. To combat that I learned how to meditate and be more relaxed before sleep. One of the meditation techniques I use to kill earworms nowadays is actively putting a stop to them in my head. I usually do this by actively overriding the earworm with another sound memory in my head, usual a short "stoppage sound" but also other songs. The more stubborn ones are sometimes hard to find in my mind, but when find and "stop" them they go away leaving a silent mind. You could consider this action as resolving the "unfinished song" with a stoppage, which confirms the theory
I don't have this kind of reaction, but some songs can bring uncontrollable tears of joy - such as Waltz of the Flowers.
When I get an ear worm, it's usually from a song that I only know a line or two. If I look up the complete lyrics the ear worm tends to go away.
and my favourite Christmas tune: "Fleas on my Dog" ;p
Eargasms I get from studio recordings often make it nearly impossible for me to enjoy the same songs played live in concert, because the artists never play them exactly the same way live as they did in the studio, and I'm disappointed when I don't hear my expected "eargasm hooks". But if the artists change the style of the songs completely, say from Hard Rock to Unplugged, I can listen to them with "fresh ears" and enjoy them on their own merits. My favourite example is the original "Layla" (loaded with eargasms for me) vs. the unplugged version (no eargasms at all, but I still love it). 😊
The studies on animals & music reminded me of the cockatiels, parrots, and other vocal birds who sing human songs! 😄
Imagine an art lover opening an art book about "Why We Love Art", only to find no art at all.... Informative, but anti-orgasmic.