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Poll: Has anyone lost their ability to enjoy music

Has anyone lost their ability to enjoy music

  • I completely lost the ability to enjoy music

    Votes: 9 20.9%

  • I lost my ability to enjoy music but it sometimes comes back

    Votes: 16 37.2%

  • I somewhat lost my ability to enjoy mnusic

    Votes: 16 37.2%

  • ME/CFS didn't affect my ability to enjoy music

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • LOL! I enjoy music for now

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    43
Rufous McKinney

Rufous McKinney

Senior Member
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Wishful said:
Well, since you bumped it, I'd like to ask whether anyone enjoys songs where the artist screams the lyrics, with vocal cords usually damaged by earlier screaming, accompanied by instruments played as loud as possible to drown out the fact that they have no musical or vocal talent.
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I saw Grace Slick live, around 1971. Sad.
 
Judee

Judee

Psalm 46:1-3
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4,494
Location
Great Lakes
I still try to listen to songs but sometimes I just cannot make it through the whole song. It just gets to be too much somehow and it doesn't matter if it is fast/slow or classical type/something with a beat.
 
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Wishful

Senior Member
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Location
Alberta
I was wondering: can music appreciation be broken into two main camps: those who want music to boost their adrenaline, and those who want music to calm them? I'm definitely not an adrenaline addict, so maybe that's why I can't understand why loud/screaming music is popular.

If that's the case, maybe it makes a difference in whether ME affects the ability to enjoy music. Judee's comment above is that it doesn't make a difference for her. I'm pretty sure it doesn't make a difference for me either; I can enjoy fast-paced and slow-paced music as well as I did pre-ME.

I just don't like screaming and loud unmusical noise. :mad:
 
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