Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds

Re:Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds by padjo on Thursday November 27, 2025 @11:10AM (#46070576)

If the goal of music is to induce an emotional or intellectual response in a person. Then only the listening person can decide if a response was induced and if that experience impacted them in a positive or negative way. It is the definition of a subjective experience.

The complexity of the music or the technical skill of the artist has nothing to do with it being good or bad. Music anywhere on the spectrum from simple ambient noise to symphonic formalism to simple and infectious can be good or bad based on the taste of the listener.

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Re:Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds by crooked-v on Thursday November 27, 2025 @08:56PM (#46074876)

I think the easiest example there would be the Ramones, who had a lot of songs using thr same four, three, or even two chords with almost no musical complexity, and yet capitvated and inspired a huge number of people and contributed to the foundational sound of later pop and rock music.

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