Threat of re-containment, new variants of the virus, social life at half mast ... If the health situation undermines your morale, music could help you find it!
But beware, not just any.
If you are depressed, "listening to happy music will push you down even more," warns Professor Bigand on Europe 1.
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If you are feeling sad or overwhelmed by the confinements, then a solution: music!
And against all odds, it is not advisable to put happy songs on your turntables.
Leave your discs and playlists of festive songs in the closet.
When you're bad, it's better to listen to melancholy songs.
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Melancholy, but optimistic
"If you are depressed and you are at the bottom of the hole, listening to joyful music will sink you even more, because you will not identify with this music", decrypts for Europe 1 Emmanuel Bigand, professor of cognitive psychology, specialist in the impact of music on our brain.
"So when we do music therapy sessions for someone who is depressed, we are not going to put on very happy music; rather melancholic music, but which is more optimistic."
Exit Leonard Cohen or Simon & Garfunkel.
Ideally, these are songs as calm, but on major tones, specifies Emmanuel Bigand, with positive lyrics like "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.
82% of French people lift their spirits thanks to music
At the end of 2020, the British electronics group "Alba" had also launched a poll asking which songs made respondents happy.
The Dutch neuroscientist Jacob Jolij had analyzed this list and found that the recipe consists of positive lyrics or those that have no particular meaning, a tempo of 150 beats per minute and notes in major key.
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According to his findings, the ten songs that make the most "happy" are in the first place
Don't Stop Me Now
by Queen,
Dancing Queen
by Abba,
Good Vibrations
by the Beach Boys,
Uptown Girl
by Billy Joel,
Eye of The Tiger
by Survivor,
I'm a Believer
by The Monkeys,
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
by Cindy Lauper,
Linvin 'on a Prayer
by Bon Jovi,
I Will Survive
by Gloria Gaynor, and in tenth position
Walking on Sunshine
by Katrina and the Waves
With the crisis, according to an OpinionWay survey for La Semaine du Son conducted at the beginning of the month, 82% of French people listen to music to keep morale up and 75% to remember more carefree times.
One of the songs that characterizes him the most is
Les copains première
by Georges Brassens.