Comments on: Why Does Music Cut To Your Soul (or Crying?! at U2 Concerts)? http://www.deeptrouble.com/2005/11/10/why-does-music-cut-to-your-soul-or-crying-at-u2-concerts/ Hi! my name is Amandeep Jawa & this is my website... because I'm shy. :-) Check out my picture pages for my random adventures... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: max http://www.deeptrouble.com/2005/11/10/why-does-music-cut-to-your-soul-or-crying-at-u2-concerts/comment-page-1/#comment-293 max Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:40:23 +0000 #comment-293 music is so meaningful to me. i feal if every day. it like is is part of who i am. i can feel it in my soal. music always fill me with some kind of emotion i don't know why it just does. music is so meaningful to me. i feal if every day. it like is is part of who i am. i can feel it in my soal. music always fill me with some kind of emotion i don’t know why it just does.

]]> By: adrian http://www.deeptrouble.com/2005/11/10/why-does-music-cut-to-your-soul-or-crying-at-u2-concerts/comment-page-1/#comment-99 adrian Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:44:00 +0000 #comment-99 One of my earliest run-ins with the power of music, was chanting the Our Father prayer at the Silverdome when Pope John Paul II came to detroit in the early 80s. It was pretty amazing. The ugliest moments were at a Pink Floyd concert -- it suddenly struck me as they were playing something from the Wall, and people were crossing their arms above their heads and chanting -- that I was like "wait!" isn't this the kind of mob action that the music is speaking against? why the heel are we imitating the fascists in the movie? It got worse when some guys behind us start making comments about an older gay couple that were standing right by us. Is no one here actually LISTENING to the music? So I think there is a darker flipside to that exaltation we can feel, and I wonder if music and chanting were part of Hitler's success in all those huge rallies he held. Somebody, I can't remember who, said that it would probably be just as amazing and moving if 50,000 people sang the Micky Mouse song. The Pink Floyd experience, I think is no small part of why I dislike and am suspicious of concerts and crowds. And I think movie makers and television producers, this American life producers, are well aware of how music can guide our emotions well beyond the value of the story -- Jerry Bruckheimer being the ultimate master. One of my earliest run-ins with the power of music, was chanting the Our Father prayer at the Silverdome when Pope John Paul II came to detroit in the early 80s. It was pretty amazing.

The ugliest moments were at a Pink Floyd concert — it suddenly struck me as they were playing something from the Wall, and people were crossing their arms above their heads and chanting — that I was like “wait!” isn’t this the kind of mob action that the music is speaking against? why the heel are we imitating the fascists in the movie? It got worse when some guys behind us start making comments about an older gay couple that were standing right by us. Is no one here actually LISTENING to the music?

So I think there is a darker flipside to that exaltation we can feel, and I wonder if music and chanting were part of Hitler’s success in all those huge rallies he held. Somebody, I can’t remember who, said that it would probably be just as amazing and moving if 50,000 people sang the Micky Mouse song. The Pink Floyd experience, I think is no small part of why I dislike and am suspicious of concerts and crowds.

And I think movie makers and television producers, this American life producers, are well aware of how music can guide our emotions well beyond the value of the story — Jerry Bruckheimer being the ultimate master.

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