birdsong conditions, depression exclusively decreased after exposure to the high diversity soundscape (small effect size). Anxiety and paranoia significantly decreased in both birdsong conditions (medium effect sizes). For cognition, no effects were observed. In sum, the present study suggests that liste...
I am like any human. I don't like reading negative things about myself. But at some point, it turns from beating myself up and hating myself into this self defiance in who I am. And if you don't like me, then f— you. All my haters should know that they fuel some of my b...
“Anything” is about an undefined anxiety so persistent, it numbs everything else, and keeps you up until dawn. At first, Sharon Van Etten’s admission of ambivalence in the face of war and climate collapse—“I didn’t feel anything”—seems like a self-soothing mantra. But this booming...
Prenatal listening to songs composed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pilot study. BMC Complement Altern Med 2017;17:256.Nwebube Ch, Glover V, Stewart L. Prenatal listening to songs com- posed for pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a pi- lot study. ...
2022’s Best Songs of the Year “About Hunger, About Love”by Pearla Pearla has always been capable of summing up emotions of anxiety and loneliness in a dreamily poetic way and it’s always around autumn when her music feels the most fitting. It was the case with “Pumpkin” released in...
But it’s also just about how much breakups suck – and I have no shame in admitting that I’ve spent days listening to this song on repeat, balling my eyes out in bed, on buses, on walks. This song is beautiful, and you will cry – but you’ll feel good, after. Chiara ...
The panting man sampled at the top of the song talks about how a“gyal that can dance… Lets herself be free and so expressive and just don’t give a fuck… Uh, there’s nothing more sexier than that”– and “papi bones” is proof that Twigs can be that woman when she wants. ...
MJ Lenderman is fascinated with losing. He sang about being a “beat-down rodeo clown” and literally falling on his face on his 2022 breakout,Boat Songs; even “Dan Marino” focused on the Hall of Fame quarterback being replaced by Tom Brady on the Wheaties box. On “She’s Leaving You...
“There’s been a lot of biggg mad crazy moments in the last year but basically all of these are about really very small quiet intimate moments,” Fred writes. “Some of them are like the most intensely joyful things I have felt, and some of them are the other sid...
about what is sung in Sunday worship. It is argued that what is sung, strongly influences the theology and faith of congregants. The thesis locates the discipline of hymnology within a hermeneutical approach to practical theology and tries to develop a theory to answer the question how to ...