Posted on 02/15/2021 9:51:25 AM PST by nickcarraway
Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its 'positive nostalgia', researchers have found.
Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.
Music from the hit TV series It's a Sin, which is heavy with tunes from the likes of Eighties legends Wham!, Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran, were more effective at reducing blood pressure – an indicator of low anxiety – than 10 other genres.
Other genres effective at decreasing blood pressure were Noughties pop, like Kylie Minogue and Rihanna, and heavy metal, like Black Sabbath.
Meanwhile, techno, dubstep and Seventies rock anthems were found to be the most likely to raise blood pressure – an indicator of anxiety.
The research was conducted by Vera Clinic, a Turkish hair transplant company, which wanted to look into the connection between music, stress and hair loss.
'The results may seem surprising on first inspection but medically they make a lot of sense,' said Vera Clinic doctor Ömer Avlanmış told Metal Sucks.
'1980s pop hits could have positive nostalgia attached to them for many people, and their upbeat, party-like sounds can induce the release of endorphins and serotonin in the brain, both increasing feelings of happiness and calm.
Angry music like metal, meanwhile, can help listeners 'process their feelings and as a result lead to greater well-being', Avlanmış said.
For the experiments, Vera Clinic tasked the participants to complete non-verbal reasoning tests, which were specifically designed to produce low levels of stress.
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Why is the constant focus these days on “reducing anxiety”? Upbeat music gets you motivated, which helps you get work done. It seems Milennials and GenZ’ers just want to be “chill” all the time.
Turkish researchers ... well there it is. Turks, muslims who cares about their BP?
Wonder if they included classical music, especially the Romantic Period - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach. Cures what ails you.
OMG no!
There’s a lot of eighties music, including the pop genre that repeats itself. Right off the top of my head, Phil Collin’s 80s pop phase was annoyingly repetitive and I can’t stand it. Elton John too. ugh!
Ping
Eighties music pretty much sucked.
80s pop is pretty much what I have set for my exercise music.
Eye of the Tiger, etc.
heavy metal works for me... 😁
Squeeze was one of the very best.
OK, I’ll pull out some Roseanne Cash, Fun Boy Three, Waylon Jennings, Adam Ant, Blondie, Ronnie Milsap, The Cars and late Del Shannon (”Drop Down and Get Me” LP) before Lent starts.
80s music is perfectly fine if you came of age in the 80s. Me? I came of age in the 70s. So there is no better era of music than the 1970s.
It all depends on when you were born and when you grow up.
Because liberals suffer from continuous self-induced anxiety.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w&ab_channel=TearsForFearsVEVO
China wins so far
“A Turkish hair transplant company”?
Wow.
Bisexual plants growing hair.
You go, Turkey.
“Eighties music pretty much sucked.”
It’s the one genre that mrs riverdawg and I can listen to together on long road trips and both be perfectly happy. Sirius/XM 80s on 8.
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