Imagine yourself as a graphic designer for New Age musician Enya, tasked with creating her next album cover. Which two or three colors from the grid below do you think would “go best” with her music?

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Listening to music is quite common in our daily life. The most common motive for listening to music is to influence emotions. How does listening to music produce emotions and pleasure in listeners?

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Released in 1975, “Sweet Emotion” led the Steven Tyler and Aerosmith down a road of massive success. It was the classic rock band’s first single to crack the top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 list, ...

Popular music includes countless love songs, and also a surprising number of songs about romantic breakups. Another category of songs has gone unnoticed: anti-breakup songs, with one or both partners ...

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Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen shot to fame with 2012’s “Call Me Maybe,” the impossible-to-avoid lead single from her second studio album, “Kiss.” The pop hit spent nine weeks at No. 1 on ...

The study shows that color, light, and music interact to shape how listeners emotionally experience the same songs.