How Does Music Affect Your Mood
It’s common knowledge that music can affect your mood. Watch a sad commercial or movie and have to reach for the kleenex? Now try the same with the volume muted. Not quite as bad? It might just be because the musical score didn’t evoke the same emotional response.
Listening to music, or singing along, can release those feel-good chemicals like oxytocin and dopamine in the brain. It’s how music affects us. Why a baby is soothed when mom sings a lullaby, why the toddler starts bouncing to the rhythm of “Baby Shark” (do do duh do duh do…sorry if that’s stuck in your head now), and why you catch yourself belting out that pop sing on the radio at the top of your lungs in the car while waiting at the traffic light. With all the other drivers staring at you. Not that I know this from experience or anything……
