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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Duran Duran? Turks? I wonder what they think of this one?
NSFW
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh50c
Is that the uncensored version?
Yes.
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Nuff said
“Disco? Disco SUCKS! (do you remember the song?)”
Yeah, I know. I call it a “guilty pleasure”!
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