There Is A Reason Feel-Good Music Makes You Feel Good

We’ve all done it.  In the midst of having a bad day we’ve flipped on the radio and had our mood changed and improved by a feel good song.  Is it psychological or is there some real science behind the phenomenon?  Seems there may be some of both.

NME.com says a British electronics company and a Dutch neuroscientist searched to find a pattern in songs that literally make you feel good.

Some of t

he science they discovered was that those songs are usually fast, at 140 to 150 beats-per-minute, are in a major key, and psychologically, the lyrics are about a positive experience.

Some of the “feel good” songs that made the list:

--"Walking On Sunshine" - KATRINA & THE WAVES
--"Livin' On A Prayer" - BON JOVI
--"Eye Of The Tiger" - SURVIVOR
--"I Will Survive" - GLORIA GAYNOR
--"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - CYNDI LAUPER