Am I defective?

@mahler123 

So sorry to hear of your loss!  I definitely cried when my mom passed.

My sincere sympathy for your dear mom mahler123...

My deepest respect too...

Watch the video of the first U.S. Beatles concert [Shea Stadium I think] and you will see a lot of teenage girls crying and screaming.  Pure emotion.

mahler123

A lot can depend upon your mood. My mother died a few days ago, and apiece of music that I knew very well and enjoy but not particularly identify with suddenly sounded like a Requiem Mass.

You are so right and I’ve had similar experiences!

I’m sorry to hear about your mom.

A lot can depend upon your mood.  My mother died a few days ago, and apiece of music that I knew very well and enjoy but not particularly identify with suddenly sounded like a Requiem Mass.

...what bemuses me....is reading that some fans, upon shortly after attending the latest T. Swift extravaganza.....

...don't seem to remember a damn thing...other than having 'been there'...barely.

?!?  

You paid big $s' to go....and don't remember it?

(...now, I've been to shows where I suspect, at about 3/4s' into the gig, where the group is deep into riffs 'n raffing that the techs 'kick in' an Aphex Aural Exciter or a similar 'stim' to 'buzz' the crowd....)....(...and NO, I wasn't that twisted nor dancing 10' from the line array...don't have to read lips or AMSLAN...yet... ;)....)

....maybe the fog machines are getting some sort of *ah*....'secret sauce' that Does Things...  😏

Mass Mind Melting....gotta love it....if you can remem...

What? *L* ;)

...who are you people, anyway?

i could not act to save my life. my stendahl's though saves me from having to act. 

@edcyn 

Is it a blessing or a curse to be moved to great lengths by a piece of art, music or any other purely creative endeavor? Are purely creative works wastes of time or truly key to the survival of the species?

As for the survival of the species, it seems to me our stunning lack of capacity for learning from past mistakes poses the greatest threat. . . and I'm not optimistic that art can save us from ourselves.   

Still, if you ask me whether life would be worth living without the arts, that's an easy "no" for me. 

Is it a blessing or a curse to be moved to great lengths by a piece of art, music or any other purely creative endeavor?

I think it is a blessing. To be "moved to great lengths" (tears, joy, sadness, bliss) IMO makes us more engaged humans.  

If you keep an open mind, these things will find you. Don't go looking for them. 

Most people I know only like catchy pop tunes on the radio. Not many are moved emotionally.

Acting isn't that hard.

It certainly is you. Madame Butterfly La Boheme and a number of other operas often move me to tears.

My wife had a friend who was an opera singer.  She came for a visit & we ask her to sing. She went to the far corner of our living room & cut loose with a voice that brought tears to my eyes. It was unlike anything I've ever experienced.

Well, I have decided I am not totally defective. Disturbed’s version of Sound Of Silence does give me goose bumps especially when watching the B&W video. While I have always loved the S&G version it took Disturbed to show me the words are angry and should be sung that way.

It's not you.  Remember,  the YouTubers get paid by their views and subscribers.  The bigger "act" they put on, their "over the top" actions so to say, gets "clicks" and "upvotes" -- all which earn them more money.

Some reviewers are truly moved and earnest in their feelings and reactions.  Most are pure horseshiite -- pardon my cynicism in my old age.

Music reviews are subjective. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.  
In my experience, pitchfork.com is the only place where consistently well-written and extremely well-researched reviews exist. I’m aware there are other sources for excellent music reviews, but pitchfork.com is the only place I’ve found where a person can rely on a consistent daily source.  
Even then, it’s just entertainment.

I still disagree with well over half of what they say, it’s just exceptionally well-written and well-researched (as far as popular music reviews go).  
It’s just light entertainment, a slightly more intelligent thing than, say, “reality TV,” or People magazine.

YouTube, social media…I would never, ever look for music reviews there.

It took me many years to “get” jazz, and to “get” Fellini.  
Now, I think the music of jazz (at least the stuff from the late-‘40s to the mid-‘70s, with a few stragglers on either side) and the cinema of Fellini are two of the greatest things human beings ever did. 

There’s nothing wrong with not liking something.
 

Esthetic preferences are, by nature, deeply subjective.

The people you are watching in the videos are putting on a performance.  It may be earnest, but it's also a shtick.

A million Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran fans can't be wrong!

Is it a blessing or a curse to be moved to great lengths by a piece of art, music or any other purely creative endeavor? Are purely creative works wastes of time or truly key to the survival of the species? To be sure it's the seed for one heck of a discussion.

No it is not you...

Or it is you...

Everyone has a particular relation to music...

Some are moved by thousand songs...

Some are moved by one...

And everything else between these extreme...

And some can touch ectasy with some Beatles or Dylan  song... Which i only feel as good but without ectasy...

How many people are amazed by Bach art of the fugue.. ? It gives me some ectasy...

By the way i like very much hammon organ, but i never feel in ectasy withy it in spite of my 60 albums or more...

And wait till you stumble on some music made for you than you will feel it hugely...Perhaps even ectasy...

For me it was Bach and Scriabin...Or some others pieces of classical...Liszt put me in ectasy too... And few others composers.. it is often related to the way they are interpreted ... No versions of the same composer do the same thing...

i like Jazz and iranian and Indian music a lot...it is more rare here that i felt ectasy... I appreciated it most of the times...No ectasy...Save in rare case...