Which means she’s at home, listening at the window and wondering who the mad weirdo with the sad eyes at the door is. If you’re at my house and I’m in, that means I’m not working, and if I’m not working then my wife probably isn’t either. Turn up out of the blue? Okay, so that means you knew where to find me, so you’re likely to be either at my work, which is mental, or at my house, which is even worse. "I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited,īut I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it," – Rappler.Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you,Īin't like you to hold back or hide from the light,"īecause, honestly, I’m slightly scared. And when you and l listen to that song, we walk through her shoes through that heartbreaking experience - but it’s in our imagination,” he added. “That walked her back through that experience. You would then ask: why is such an intensely sad song so popular? The WSJ story said neuroscientists, specifically a team from McGill University led by neuroscientist Robert Zatorre, reported that such intense music also triggers dopamine release in the pleasure and reward centers of the brain.Ĭo-writer Wilson, meanwhile, in the NPR article, has another theory on why the song is popular: “A good song allows us, the listeners, to walk through the songwriter or composer’s thoughts and emotions as they wrote the song… With Adele, we wrote this song that was about a desperately heartbreaking end of a relationship, and she was really, really feeling it at the time, and we were imaginatively creating.” The WSJ story says the song, written by Adele and Dan Wilson, is “sprinkled with ornamental notes similar to appoggiaturas,” and the pitch modulation made by the singer creates a “mini-roller coaster of tension and resolution,” says another psychologist, Martin Guhn, who co-wrote a study on the subject. “ that chord is not quite what we expect, it gives you a little bit of an emotional frisson, because it’s strange and unexpected.” “Our brains are wired to pick up the music that we expect,” Sloboda tells NPR in another article. The Sloboda study points out, the slight change in the tone in the word “you” triggers the emotional response in the listener. The article says in “Someone Like You,” you can hear the appoggiatura when the song reaches the word “you” in the chorus (click to listen to part).
The word, which is Italian, means “to lean.”Ī Wall Street Journal (WSJ) story used Sloboda’s study to help explain why Adele’s hit song, as well as similar tearjerkers, elicit strong emotions in many listeners.
The said musical device is called an “appoggiatura,” a type of note that clashes with the melody, creating a dissonant sound.
The study revealed that a certain ornamental note could sometimes trigger strong emotions in a listener. MANILA, Philippines – Do you usually find yourself getting emotional, even to the point of crying, when listening to Adele’s “ Someone Like You?” Well, there is a scientific alibi that you can use if someone catches you shedding a tear while listening to this favorite pop anthem.Ī few decades back, British music psychologist John Sloboda of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama conducted a study on the physical responses people had to music.
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