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THE POWER OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSIC.
Life moves in stages and once you pass a stage, thereâs no going back. The life you lived when going to college is a completely different experience from the life you lived in high school. (CONT.)
Music acts as the sound track to each of these different stages and thatâs why itâs the closest thing we have to reliving these memories. Itâs just human nature to live in the past or fantasize about the future while completely ignoring the present.
This is exactly why you may have noticed that songs that were overplayed on the radio, which you may have hated in the past are now some of the best songs youâve ever heard. I couldnât stand âRather Beâ before but if that song goes on now, Iâm going crazy.
Nostalgia can also make songs and albums that you loved in the past, infinitely better. Albums like âBirds in the Trap Sing Mcknight,â and âDamn.â were so good at the the time of release but now they take me back to simpler times and have become even more enjoyable for me.
Artists need to capitalize off nostalgia. and turn their album releases into world events. âTLOPâ and âAstroworldâ are good examples of this. If I asked you where you were, and who you were with when these albums dropped, I know yâall would have the answers with every last detail
On the other hand, nostalgia can also negatively effect music for you. This is seen with old heads, and our resistance against artists evolving. We believe that their past work canât be topped and so we stay stuck on these âbetter times,â til the now becomes the new better times.
2016 is a true measure of how powerful nostalgia is in music. With arguably some of the best music of the decade, we all have this distorted memory of 2016. Itâs seen as an all time great year that we always look back on, yet in truth, it really was just another year.
In conclusion, music is the soundtrack to all of the many stages in our lives and itâs in this nostalgia and memories that make it so powerful. Artists should capitalize off this nostalgic power and create moments for their fans and themselves to time travel to, through music.
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Big shoutout @NathanZed for the inspiration and some of the clips used in this thread. Yâall should go check out his video on YouTube on âThe Power of Nostalgic Music.â
