7/25/2023 0 Comments 90s nostalgiaListening back to that soundtrack of Missy Elliott, Alanis Morissette or TLC - whatever it was - can bring back this stage when we were experiencing our most volatile personal growth in living color. And it connected others, setting the mood for our first dance and our first kiss. Music also divided social groups - metalheads and punks kept far apart from pop music and Jock Jam fans in the cafeteria. But for adolescents: "Music alters and intensifies their moods, furnishes much of their slang, dominates their conversations and provides the ambiance at their social gatherings," said Donald Roberts and Peter Christenson, the authors of It's Not Only Rock and Roll, according to a Stanford University press release. Music was a important back then, in a way that it's not anymore. Now, we're balancing jobs, relationships, innumerable personal stresses our habits and personalities are more stable. And musical tastes become a badge of identity." "We're just reaching a point in our cognitive development when we're developing our own tastes. "Pubertal growth hormones make everything we're experiencing, including music, seem very important," Levitin told the New York Times. Because of all these new experiences, the music we hear around this time shines with a special resonance. Levitin, music psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University. Our music tastes and social lives go through a period of tremendous flux in our early teens, according to Daniel J. Nostalgic music casts such a spell on us because of how our minds grow through puberty.
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