Old songs and music – High emotional appeal and nostalgia

Songs have always existed with immense importance in our day to day life adding a sense of pleasure, hope, joy, love and sentiments in our lives. The old songs are more close to our real life and directly appeal to our emotions and feelings of love & affection.

PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY

Deepak Bhatia (Counseling Psychologist)

12/24/20241 min read

Old songs – High emotional appeal and nostalgia

Songs have always existed with immense importance in our day to day life adding a sense of pleasure, hope, joy, love and sentiments in our lives.

Old songs had direct appeal to our sentiments

The old songs are more close to our real life and directly appeal to our emotions and feelings of love & affection for our near and dear ones.

Old songs evoke joy or sadness

Old songs had a distinct ability of evoking our feelings of joy and nostalgia and immediately connect with our unconscious memories thereby raising our sentiments & helping us relate with happy or sad memories of our life.

Old songs had deep psychological impact

Old music has deep psychological impact in form of enigmatic, calmative, soothing, relaxing effects on our mind and helps us stabilize our mood & behavior.

Old songs assist in the release of mood alleviating neurotransmitters

When we listen to old music linked with happiness our brain immediately release certain mood alleviating neurotransmitter like dopamine which is said to promote sense of joy and excitement.

Old music pushes our body functions in a positive way

Several of our body functionalities like attention level, mood, motivation and concentration get a positive push with the help of listening to old music.

Old songs trigger our past memories

Old music or songs are responsible for directly triggering our past memories the moment we listen to old songs of our choice.

Human brain is highly sensitive to music in pure form

Human brain is considered to be highly sensitive to stimulus generated by music in any form and old music is very much effective in this phenomenon.

Old music & songs are most reliving

Music is one of the most important forces behind keeping us motivated and old music is always considered as most reliving and relaxing to listen and enjoy.