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Originally posted by Ivan_brit
I still dont Get why All being slayed by this, The song Its good I agree but i Feel Its another track for 21
Anyway i know This would be a massive hit! Hide your faves
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According to the findings of their study, music is most likely to give listeners the tingles when it contains surprises in volume, timbre and harmonic pattern.
Someone Like You is a classic example. It begins with a soft, repetitive pattern, as Adele keeps the notes within a narrow frequency range.
Then, when the chorus breaks, Adele's voice jumps an octave and belts out the notes with increasing volume. At the same time, the harmony shifts and the lyrics become more dramatic.
Depending on the context, the state of arousal is interpreted as positive or negative, happy or sad. Which leads to the next question. If Someone Like You makes listeners sad, why is it so popular?
A team of of neuroscientists at McGill University last year reported that emotionally intense music floods the brain's pleasure and reward centres with dopamine in the same way as food, sex and drugs.
Measuring listeners' responses, the team, led by Dr Robert Zatorre, found the number of goose bumps a song caused correlated with the amount of dopamine released - even when the song was very sad.
That suggests that the more emotive a song is - whether depressing or joyful - the more audiences crave it, just as they would crave anything which they are addicted to.
Based on the evidence of these studies, Michaeleen Doucleff, writing in the Journal, suggests Adele and her co-writer Dan Wilson have 'not only crafted a perfect tear-jerker but also stumbled upon a formula for commercial success'.
'Unleash the tears and chills with small surprises, a smoky voice and soulful lyrics, and then sit back and let the dopamine keep us coming back for more,' she writes
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz3pPg4SXUl
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Adele, ha impact. Literally.
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Literally me my speakers are leaving my dog deaf 
