How Music Helps When Life Gets Heavy

A song can be a lifeline, but it can also become a loop you cannot climb out of. We take on a listener question we had to sit with: how can music help people in trouble? From breakups and work stress to grief and those days where everything feels heavy, we talk about what music actually does for the mind and body and why the “right” song changes depending on what you are going through.

We get practical about using playlists as emotional tools: letting yourself play the sad songs when you need the cry, switching to angry music when sadness turns into rage, and reaching for upbeat tracks when you need a reset. We also share one of our biggest rules for mental health and music: do not overdo any one mood. If you stay in the same sonic space too long, the music can stop helping and start keeping you stuck. Sometimes the best move is to hit random, experiment with genres, and let your system find what it needs.

Then we nerd out over how wordless music hits so hard. Classical can pull emotions to the surface fast, and “Adagio for Strings” comes up as a piece that sounds like grief itself, whether you connect it to Platoon or not. We also talk opera, from Carmen’s drama to Mozart’s The Magic Flute, as proof that music is a universal language even when you do not speak the lyrics.

We also share a side story about hearing a new solo release that felt forced, and why you can tell when an artist is not feeling their own work. Finally, we draw the line clearly: music can assist, but for deeper problems you may need therapy or a music therapy professional too. If this conversation resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend, leave a rating or review, and send us your next question.

Transcript

Welcome And Listener Shoutouts

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Thank you for joining us here at Music Elixir. I'm Sarah Shee, and with me is Miss DJ Panic. Yes. You're making a face at me. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna give you a fanfare for making a face at me. So when I'm not looking at you, that's when you give me some sound.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

So yes, welcome. Sitting down with us or driving, whatever you're doing, but at least where you're listening to, you're safe. Please be safe. Be doing something.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Yeah, really.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Exactly. Wherever you're at, listening, that you are safe. Yes. And uh just thank you for joining us. Hang out and thank you for part of the conversation. Yeah, thank you for hitting play to our shenanigans. Um, so during the week or weeks, um we're posting on our extraterrestrial, which is musical underscore. Um, questions. We want to hear some questions from you because we always say it's a

Can Music Help People In Trouble

SPEAKER_02 1:25

um uh open conversation. And uh we have a few, but we're gonna talk about one that this is a listener who's been listening to us since like day one. Okay. And the question, because I don't know if they're male or female, the question from our listener, yeah, is how can music help people in trouble? And that's uh we're like, oh wow, this is one that we need to ponder. But through different episodes, we have said, hey, we have playlists for different moods.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

If we want that a playlist that can cover every mood, so yeah. Right. If you depending how you're feeling, whether these songs will hit.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

You know, if you're feeling moody, like I don't know, sad, you have I have a playlist for that. Or like if you um a playlist for waking out, you know, you need something to pep you up, give you that energy. But for people in trouble, I guess it all depends on what trouble, you know, what kind of trouble. Yeah, there are different troubling things that us the humans go for, you know, have you know, have this green and you know, trouble is depends on you, you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Everybody views certain situations as more problematic than others, like you know, so yeah, but I so I guess I'm sort of when I first saw the question, I sort of took it from the point of view of like someone who's just going through a rough time. Right. But again, it depends on on the rough time, like what is it because of? Like, is it a breakup, just having trouble at work, you know, trouble with friends, not get along with people? Like, there's so many different scenarios. You just lost someone, is it

Building Playlists For Real Moods

SPEAKER_00 3:10

grief, you know? And the thing is, like you were saying, we talk about music for me is always healing no matter what. So if I'm angry about something, I can I can listen to either angry music or I can listen to happy music and get myself sort of back on track. Yeah. I guess, you know, again, it it sort of depends where where your head is at. And like sometimes when you're sad, you just want to listen to sad music, and that's okay. But you you don't want to overdo it. It's like with anything, you don't want to go to excess.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

Right.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Because you don't want to keep yourself in that place. So when you're sad, you might want to listen to sad music, and you'll do that for a while, but you need to reach a point where you're like, okay, I need to turn this around. Yeah. And I need to find another outlet. And it could be angry music because when you're sad, sometimes it does turn to anger, and you're like, you know. So sometimes you just need to rage it out, right? Yeah. And then sometimes you just need to be happy. You just need to say, I want to forget all of it, put it on the back burner for now, and I just need to like pull myself out of this place just for a little while. You could go back to it if you need to, you know, but again, I think anything in too too much excess isn't healthy.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Like if you're angry, you don't want to listen to angry music for too long because you're just never gonna leave that place. Right. I guess you know, when you're happy, you're happy, and that's like you can stay there for as long as you want. Um, but with the extreme things, with sad, with with feeling doubts about things, you just you don't want to stay there too long. And for me, like music is just therapy all the time.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

Music has always been a very huge part of my life.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Um, and pretty much everything in my life I can relate to music somewhere along the line. Oh, yeah. Like I have my life has a soundtrack, it's not yeah, set in stone, but it keeps getting built on. And there's just always certain memories with older songs. I create new memories with new songs, you know. So yeah. And I know you do the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

I yeah. Like that's why I'm like, if I'm listening to good music that I just love so much, I try not to something bad happens and I'll be like, no, I love this song. Now I'm gonna trigger that memory that, oh my god, yeah. Um, but yes, music is healing. Music, I believe, that does help people in trouble. Uh, of course, what type of music that you're listening to. Heck, I've been they have been many, many studies from either plants, animals, babies, yeah on what certain type of music lifts you up, makes you grow, uh, makes you feel good, makes you feel sad, exactly. So, yes, I do see that music mu helps you, relieves your trouble, let's say. But of course, not excess, definitely. Yeah, just like everything, you know, you don't want to eat hamburgers all the time. Right. That's not good. So it's just the same thing. You don't want to listen to that a certain type of music all the time. You know, you want to have variety.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Well, because like I said, you don't want to keep yourself in that place. Right. Depending on the trouble, like I said, sad, grief. Some lyrics and music will help you through that. Will sort of you'll be like, Yeah, see, they get it. They know what I'm talking about. But then that it can reach a point where all you're doing is thinking about that, and that's not too good place to stay sometimes, you know.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Maybe want to find somebody that also knows where you're going through. If they know they're like, Okay, enough of this. How about this song? Or like, let's do something else, you know, to you know, start weaning you out of like whatever you're obsessed with. Yeah. But definitely music can help you. Emotional release, uh, comfort and stability, you know, uh, motivation. Ah, yeah. Some songs that's like they give you motivation or hope. But there's there's many, many through the years, a lot of motivation and hope, you know. Also, community and belonging, healing and expression. Wow. That one's a good one too. And a mental health support. There are many, many songs. Either some from your your favorites will have a song that they've gone through something. Well, and that can help.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Yeah, and then and the way the way you interpret songs, lyrics, music, also, you know, it's gonna be different for everybody.

Do Not Get Stuck In One Feeling

SPEAKER_00 7:45

What what lifts me up may not lift you up the same way. It's a very subjective thing. It's right, it's how you feel and how you see it. But like you were saying, there have been countless studies and we're not specialists, we don't know exactly what will work. But we do know for us personally, music definitely helps. We know a lot of people that music helps, you know. If you're a musically in uh inspired person, right, that you will always be able to find something that you can sort of lean on as like this makes me feel better, this helps me motivate me to move forward to go, you know, get to the gym and do whatever. You know, like there's always there's something there for you. And the only thing I can really stress is that you don't want to, you don't want to stay in a certain mood in a certain type of music for too long. Because that's that's when it starts to not really help you, but sort of keep you where you're at. Right. And you wanna you wanna move move around with the music. You want to sort of experiment with it and see where it goes, you know. Throw some classical in there, because talk about without realizing how inspiring it can be. Yes, like I've been listening to classical music and just burst out crying for no apparent reason. I wasn't feeling any particular way, but the music, something about it just moved me, and I was like, oh my I like feel this overwhelming need to just cry. And I wasn't sad about something or didn't think I was, you know, or overly overjoyed about something. It was just it brought me to tears because it was so touching at that moment. That's what music can do for me, and I just feel like it's you need to to be open to the messages coming from certain music too. You need to I don't know, try it all out, I guess. See what puts you in the best place at the time, depending on what what

When Classical Music Cracks You Open

SPEAKER_00 9:50

it is that's you know, got you thinking a certain way.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

There is there's a movie called Platoon. There's that one scene that has this song. Whoa. It's with strings. I'm trying to fit I'm trying to find the the name of it, but it's that song is it's an old classical song that they just put in for that scene, and it's like they it's called the saddest song made. Oh god, what is the name?

SPEAKER_00 10:16

Is it towards the end of the film? I haven't seen Platoon in a really long time.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

Girl, I saw Platoon once, and I say, I will never ever see a war movie ever again. And then since then I'm like, I'm off that. And it was because of that song. Hmm. Oh, damn. See if I can find it. So that scene in Platoon, you found out the name of the song. Adagio for strings. Yep. Oh my god. And it is called the saddest song ever composed.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Well, I was gonna say, even I if you've seen Platoon, you probably know the scene we're talking about, and it is heart-wrenching, but like the song itself, even without putting it to that scene in the movie, yeah, is gut-wrenching. It's it's very um I I don't know, it sounds so it sounds grief.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah, it just sounds grief. It's grief, it's is it's dark. Yeah, it's but it's beautiful too. At the same time, which is like oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

Well that because that's what music can do. It can make you feel the conflicting emotions all at once. So like I said, we you know, we're not specialists, we're not no we just know how music makes us feel. And it is a very personal experience.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

So for that question, yes, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

It can you know help somebody in trouble or in problems, definitely. Because there's some mood for each song.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

You gotta find what what's gonna work for you. Yeah. Allow yourself to feel what you're feeling at the time, but don't don't focus on it. Sometimes just let the music roll.

SPEAKER_03 12:01

Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Hit random. Yeah. Let stuff play. If it's not striking you at the moment, you can skip it. Go to the next random song on the playlist, you know. That's right. Of course.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

You know, you know what kind it also depends on what kind of problems you know you are going through.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

Well, that's what I'm I'm sort of getting at.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Yeah, and everybody grief differently, laugh differently, get pepped up differently, get angry differently. Oh yeah. But of course, anything in excess is just not good. Get a well-balanced playlist. Definitely. So yeah, yeah, just now you all gotta remember this is an open conversation with your your best friends, with your friends, you know, and this is a question that pro you know, a friend will ask you. You'll say, Do you think that music will get you out of, you know, will help you out of your problems? Well not help you, but assist you, but you still whatever you're going through, you gotta find a therapist. Therapy is important. People I know we know some people they're like, oh therapy, very, very, very waste of time, na la na, n-n-na, don't have the you know, sometimes it's good to talk to somebody that is not your family or your friend that is completely not biased, you know.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Right, yeah, someone who's who's not invested in the situation. Right. And you know, so yeah, music can definitely help with certain things, but you also need to know when the problem needs to be dealt with a little more in-depth than just you know, like having a having a bad mood, having a bad day, whatever. That's that's one thing, you know, and the idea that like I I know I would be lost without music. I definitely would. But again, music's always been a part of my life, so that's just something I know about myself, and I've always incorporated music. And I certainly think that certain music can help you assess situations, can help you see things differently. Yep. And again, that's where the the type of tempos or the type of lyrics, these are all things that play into it too. So again, like the song that makes me feel good might not make you feel good. Right. Or, you know, our friends listening in here, but like, so you have to find your own sort of groove. What what really works for you, what makes you feel best, what and that's something you do, you feel. Yeah. With music being the universal language and everything, it doesn't have to be English, doesn't have to be, you know, your native language, doesn't even have to have words, like we said, these classical songs that just bring you to tears for no apparent reason. Exactly. Or that adagio is definitely that one's just grief. But I mean, yeah, I don't know, like some Beethoven. I

Opera Proves Lyrics Are Optional

SPEAKER_00 15:00

have cried to Beethoven.

SPEAKER_02 15:02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

And that's all like, you know, praise hallelujah kind of music. So you know there's some opera religious.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

There's some operas that are either the mainly operas are either Italian or French, you know, they're not really your your language.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

But there's some operas that you're like, oh my god, you know? Yeah, it's like, whoa, so that person's angry, or like, whoa, this person's like so in love, you know? And it's like, oh, this this this one is like, oh yeah, you you can you can sense the uh I'm gonna get you, you know? Yeah, yeah. The one that I find very uh I love and I just you know it's so much is Carmen. Uh-huh. I don't know for some reason. It's such a drama. Carmen is so Yeah, it is. It's a it's a complete drama. You got the the romance and the deceived and the power and and everything. The romantic you know, being romantic and and then of course the tragedy at the end because it has really more just everything, and also there's well, there's parts that are funny, you know, but at the beginning.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Yeah, for like two seconds, you know, at the beginning. For the most part, for for me, Carmen is just like tragic all around. It's just well, well, let's say it's very karmatic, you know.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

We have this beautiful woman who just wants to be comfortable but not really work for it, only working for it in a different way, and but she wants to be popular and you know, and I know she these but sh she deceives so many men to get to where she wanted to go, but one of those men was just like you ruined my life, and you used me, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I know, but it's it's well done believe drama. Drama.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Well, it's funny, you know, because of the I just got to thinking there was this one thing, it's um I believe it's called The Pearl Fisherman, and it is an opera. I honest to God for the life of me, really can't remember too much about how it feels. But there's one song I mean, feel what it's about. But like there was this one song from it that I distinctly remember. I mean, this was years and years and years and years ago. And what I remember about this song was that it felt like you were on a boat, that you were on a fishing boat. And it was like you felt that movement, and you felt that I was like, geez, I almost feel like I'm gonna get seasick because the motion of this boat, like it gets so intense. Wow, and you're like, whoa, what's going on? And and it's just crazy. So I just that just popped into my head while we were talking about this, and I was like, so this is the power of music for me, right?

SPEAKER_05 18:06

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Is I wasn't watching the opera, I was just listening to the music from it. And like I said, this one song, it's like dunno nun nun nun nun nun. And it builds and builds, and I was like, We're out on some really rough seas, and I don't I'm not feeling good right now.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

I might have seen the opera. Maybe. Yeah, at least that scene. Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

Was it a lot of like men singing? I don't know. I don't remember. Like I said, it was only the music I I heard. I didn't see the the opera. I don't I don't know where it's from, whether it's French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, you know, I don't know. But it's just I that that came into my head while we were talking about stuff and the the power of music to to take you somewhere. Yeah. So, you know, there I was just like, oh, I'm just gonna enjoy some opera. And I was like, I feel like I'm on a boat and I don't even normally get seasick, right? So I was just like, wow, this is intense, like whatever is going on. And I was like, I I don't know if in the opera the boat sinks. I don't even know, but it was just like this. That happened a lot back in the day. Right. I was like, this is just a really intense piece of music, yeah. And it really brought you right there. So again, that's the the power of all this music.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Can you know, and somebody else might have just been like, wow, this is going, you know, yeah, great guns, the not feeling the same way I am about it. But I I was definitely like, I feel the boat.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

There's one more there's one Mozart piece that I it's very, very, very I want to say that it's famous just because the vocal range that this usually the female have to, you know, upport because it's like a not even a high F. It's like something uh like outrageous that almost dogs can only hear. But it's it's it's a rage song because this this mom is like uh nope, you're not gonna be doing this, you're gonna do whatever I want. You're not doing you know, it was telling her daughter what is gonna go, what's gonna go down. Oh my god, what is it? But I mean it's all like oh when you listen to it, when I listen to it, my your hairs will also get all like wow, just electrifying, and god, I didn't even know how hairs in my ears and it all stands up because it's just so powerful. And um, opera singer, first name I want to say is Aetna. Whoa! Blows it out of the park, and it's just like holy crap, of course. That um we're talking about like old classical music, and I can't remember. So the flute, the magic flute, the magic flute that just piece the queen, when the queen is just like singing her heart out so high pitched, it's insane. It gives me goosebumps. It's just uh it's awesome. It transports me, you know. It does. It does.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Well, that's why I'm saying, you know, d depending on what what you're listening to and where you're already at, it just something happens. Yeah, yeah. Like I said, with that that Pearl Fisherman opera thing, like I don't even think it's the main part of the the opera.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

It's just one of the pieces within it that just sort of like the interlude song before they start doing whatever. Everything else, yeah, you know. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

So it's just yeah, like literally any of these types of pieces can just put you somewhere, bring you somewhere. Exactly. Bring something to mind, you know, and that's how sort of how all music is for me. Yeah. Yeah. So you get from it what you want, I guess. Yes, basically. Mm-hmm. So it most certainly can can help you. Yes. If that's what you're looking to get from it, you know?

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Yeah. Listen to music. There's so many moods. There's so many genres. There's so many. There's so many. It's just many. Mm-hmm. People have been composing music for pfft millennia. It just just just it's been there forever. Yeah. It's probably the I wanna say the first main of communication.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah, and way of expressing emotions, you know? Like you eat those

When A New Release Feels Forced

SPEAKER_00 22:35

drums when you're angry. You know?

SPEAKER_02 22:37

I do want to say, Sarah and I were started doing a deep dive on somebody that it's gone solo. And it's and for first you songs were like, oh what? This is cool. But you released something that we're like, what happened?

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Totally scratching my head over it. I'm like, yeah this. I I don't even know what to think of it.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Exactly. I was so when I first heard it, I was giving myself a stinky face, like, no, like, no. What? What happened, boo? And then I'm like, okay, Sarah, you need to listen to this and tell me what it this is my opinion, but please listen to it.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

Well, you didn't give me your opinion first. You said listen to this. I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

Well, I didn't want to influence you.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

No, I know. Yeah. No, I wanted to make that clear to everybody.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

Listening, and she also gave a stinky face.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

I was like, okay, she's feeling the same way as I do.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Well, because I was like, I was like, God, I hope she doesn't like this because this is awful. I was worried that you were like, you know, check out his new stuff. And I'm like, uh, yeah, I'm not feeling that.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

I don't know what happened here. I don't know if it was just something to release because I don't what was the mood?

SPEAKER_00 23:59

I don't even think there is one. It it was like it sounds sort of like he was annoyed with everyone and just wanted to rub it in their faces.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

There's something lyricals no.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Um well it was I don't know, like uh a caricature of of what he does, you know, because everything was exaggerated. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

It was not like not just a simple singing, it was droning and it wasn't rapping, it was it felt like this person was like very drunk, very intoxicated on something, and it's just like, well, let's just record this. I'm like, oh my god, what happened?

SPEAKER_00 24:44

You know? Well, I sort of got the feeling like it was someone was like, Oh, you should do this and this, and you should make a song like that. And they didn't want to, so they were like, All right, here, I'll do this. Like, you know, when your mom's like, go clean your room, and you're like, oh, go clean your room.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

It was like even that's what it felt the name of the title of it, and then the artwork used for that title is just completely not go with the song.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

I was like, ooh, okay. Uh so I'm like, and of course, has the least listened to. Also, his monthly listeners are just like meh. And but if yeah, that song totally tank. If he's gonna continue like that, unless he's just trying to find a range, because the the previous songs are completely different moods as well.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

But this mood, I'm not vibing.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

I don't think anybody is.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

That's why it's like if that is his purpose, then hey, kudos to you, hon. Because you're you're giving different moods for different singles that you're dropping. Uh, unfortunately, the last one, oh yeah, I'm not vibing. I'm not vibing with it. Nobody is, though. That's what I was saying.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

I don't think anybody is. It's very hard to because so this is the other thing, too, right? If an artist is not feeling it music-wise, what they're singing or producing or whatever, if they're disappointed, you can hear that from them. Oh, yeah. And this, like I said, this sounds like something they didn't really want to do, like they feel like they had to. So yeah, yeah, I mean, everything about it was just sort of like someone's making me do this, so here it goes. Blah blah blah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that's the same thing. It's also if your artist isn't feeling their music, you're not gonna feel their music. Oh no. And that's why you yeah, you gotta look around, search. Because the other stuff, even the most popular ones, I wasn't as fond of as sort of the mid-range ones. Okay. I'm like, why aren't people listening to this one more? Because I like this better than that. Well, that's the thing too.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Yeah. Sometimes when it's your favorite song, people are just like, I am not vibing. You know? Yeah. It's like, no, it's not me. It's like, all right. But uh it's so I was like, I'm glad you listened to it and you felt the same way. Yeah. You're like, what is this?

SPEAKER_00 27:16

I was. I was seriously like, I hope she's not saying that this is like her new favorite song, because wow. No, I'm like, listen to this. I'm like, usually we're mostly on par with each other music-wise. So I was like, nope, nope.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

No, I always want your bet your honest opinion. Even if I like it, you don't like it, that's fine. We have that, you know, before.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

But I'm like, well, I knew this one you could you could tell, yeah, there was no poker face on that one. I was just like, whoa.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Yeah, if I made a stinky face, Sarah also made a stinky face. What is a stinky face for those who do not know what a stinky face is? So let's say you go by somebody's bathroom and you're like, ooh, you scrunch up your brow and your face is like, ooh. Like holes sucked in. That's the stinky face.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Yep. Like, yeah, you just you just walked by something that was not pleasant.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Exactly. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Yes, that that was well, because again, usually we may not necessarily vibe completely the same way. Right. One might like it more than the other, but like there was there was definitely no way I was gonna like that. And I was just like, wow, I really hope she didn't like that because uh not not their best effort. Let's just put it that way.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

In my opinion, and I'm not saying the name of the artist, in my opinion, I just think that the strings that he got for that song were for pity. Those were pity's streams.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

Well, does it only count if people listen to the whole song, right?

SPEAKER_02 29:05

I think so. But they're fans that they will just play it, but they could just like not listen to it, but just play it just because they feel they're fans and they just pity party. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

But really, don't play it live. Well, like I said, it didn't even sound like he wanted to be singing it. It yeah. That that was my like if at least he were singing it with the conviction of, you know, I believe in this song and it has meaning and purpose for me. It doesn't sound like that. It it's really literally like he's just like, la la la la la. Yeah, yeah. There you go. I sang for you, you know?

SPEAKER_02 29:50

And now that I was saying all this, people are being like, Who are they talking about? Who's the one that gone solo? And it's like, there's many that gone solo. Yeah, that's all I have to say.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

There are but this this one I'm I was kind of surprised. Like I said, because especially the other songs are they're good. They're good, they're good pop songs, and you know, they're good.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

I I don't know. It's weird, it's very weird. But then again, there were good pop songs that were like, oh, okay, this is cool. This is cool. Yeah, that one is just like I don't know, eff it.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

I don't yeah, I don't even know what you'd qualify it as because it's it's not even like an unenthused pop song.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

What is so crazy is that the look of it, the packaging, I was like, oh, cool, this is gonna be fun. I was like, no, this is fun. Yeah, when I saw the picture, I was like, the the it should be fun.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

And it started, I was like, what the name of the song, and I'm like, oh one, no, it's deceiving.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

It is, it is pew. And so that's what I mean. If your artist isn't into what they're singing, you're gonna know, and that's that's how I felt about that. That was not a a best effort, best foot forward. No kind of thing. No, it was just thrown in there. Okay, let's leave it like that.

Music Therapy And When To Seek Help

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Well, I was gonna say we sort of sidetracked down, but I mean it it sort of fits into the whole thing too. You need to depending on so back to the original question, can it help you help people who are in trouble? It really it depends on on the situation, yep. How deeply you're feeling that situation and whether or not, you know, like for the day-to-day troubles and the day-to-day, like just dealing with the bullshit of life, yes, music can definitely help.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

For deeper things, you need to sort of think deeper too. Like, do you need a little more than just hearing a a happy song or a you know, sad song?

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Now that you said that and I just started thinking, there are places um that they do have music therapy. Yes. Um, just look for your local, if there is any. I'm sure there's not I mean look for a music therapy uh professional. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And it yeah, it it will help. Find somebody you feel comfortable with, of course. And definitely music therapy can help. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

And it can help with many aspects too, like not just the the mental but physical, knowing that certain music can motivate you and help you, and it's because it does what's it endorphins. It's music can release endorphins, yes, which can help elevate your mood, can help elevate your your body into wanting to move. So again, that it can help with mental, physical, a lot of different things when applied correctly and used correctly. And like I said, so for the day-to-day, whatever, you know. Get that playlist down. Bad day at work. What we what we always talk about, that's what it's good for. If you're talking deeper things, you need to, like I said, think deeper and sort of determine, you know, whether you need to go outside of just music to get the the help with the trouble you're having.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

So like I always start, okay, Asia, and I'm like, this is time to sing, dance, distress. You know, this is your songs that you love to hear, and it's true. Because that that's what I want the program to be about. You know, sing, dance, distress. Have a good time. Have a good time. Music is, you know, had to have a good time. And yeah, I as friends, this is just like suggestions. We are now professional, as you know. We're just your friend. We're just your friend. It's just suggestions. And anything, yeah. Look what's best for you. And I think music therapy can help. Yeah, oh yeah, definitely. Right.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

But you can range that literally from classical through 50s, 60s, well, 40s, some swing music. That'll elevate your mood. You know, so I mean, yeah, any genre, any era, yeah, you really you can

Questions, Ratings, And Goodbye

SPEAKER_00 34:20

find something that'll help, and music therapists will help you find what's right for you. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

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