Do you often feel like you feel music....

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in the same way the artist felt it?

I'm curious as to who else might admit to it without feeling like they'll get accusing stares for preceived narcissism.

To be fair it seems like if you know your music, know a writer's lyrical content, and you hear the beats, tones, melodies, etc. it seems like you very much can get inside their heads to a fair extent and tell who's making potent use of their emotions and inner worlds in music vs. who isn't.

So back at the original question: give some examples of artists or albums and what you pull from it that you think hits the artists mind at a pretty near-exact angle.

Yeah, sometimes, like in the song "Ashes Are Burning", I feel like I know why they did the stuff the way they did in that song

There are a few musicians' careers I've followed so closely throughout the years that I almost feel I know them personally through their music, but I can't really go as far as to say I think I feel their music in the same way they feel it.

I feel that way with many artists but I never thought of it as narcissism.
I thought of it more as an emotional and spiritual connection. Like myself and the artist are one.

I don't want the artists to ever know this so I won't mention them unless somebody else does first.
That way I would look less stalkerish.

Maybe. It's hard for me to know though.

Yes, absolutely!

On a related note, whenever I listen to some music, the high produced is actually better than that of a drug. Which, curiously, is why I stopped using recreational drugs (particularly weed). The high wasn't the same!

I was rocking some bossa nova the other day, and it was affecting me SO DEEPLY! Like so few other things on this earth can!

In a really limited form, yeah. I think the artist I most relate to is Yellow Magic Orchestra, my username is a Yellow Magic Orchestra song, but I feel like YMO in the way I can relate to it, at least in Japan at their time, lots of cultural transitions happened. But also as far as society goes, at that time it was the 70s, lots of vast technological changes happened. One of their albums was called "Solid State Survivor" in reference to, well, solid state electronics, but a huge technological shift, and societal shift with it. I feel the same now, just in my limited amount of time on this earth, I've seen and gone through similar of a transition, with the rise of the internet in my childhood.

YMO also, in their outlook, seemed to be dystopian, but not so much in the Orwellian/Brave New World kinda way, I mean they were but they sorta just wrote of it matter of factly. Dystopia, it's what the world is turning into, like it or not. It's not so much waking up in 1984, it's just that things gradually go in that direction without people really stopping and thinking twice about it, it just becomes part of life.

So yeah, as weird as it is to write such things about some 70s Japanese electropop group, I think that's where they were coming from, and I feel their music is just as relevant today, in the age of microprocessors and ethernet and fiber optics as it was in the 70s.

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