Music can make you feel any emotion. It can be as versatile and as individual as each person, while at the same time uniting so many people through its reach. But with how both individually powerful and unifying it can be. music carries a powerful energy that is different for each song. Energy in music can influence emotion, behavior, experience, and even who you are as a person, for instance, If someone feels sad, they might want to play a sad song with minor chords and lyrics that the person can relate to what they are going through now. Or perhaps they are trying to boost their mood by a night out and they want to have an upbeat song with a lot of bass on their drive to a party.

A few years ago, I noticed what a impact energy has on the songs you like. for instance, if you are with a good group of friends having a good time, or maybe with someone you like and you are going on a date and you hear a popular love song over the radio, the energy that you feel when you listen to that song will be carried over to the next time you listen to that song and you may associate that song with that night or a certain memory that will bring back those feelings. While it is hard to put these feelings into words, chances are you can think back and think of songs that you closely relate to friends, family, and other loved ones, or maybe you associate that song with road trips, parties or being alone enjoying your own company. needless to say, there are likely songs that you enjoy, and that bring you energy when you listen to them, if they didn’t, if you ever went to a rave everyone would just be standing around looking at their phones.

If you want to write music, or maybe you just want to become a better listener to music, listen to some of your favorite songs, but this time, instead of listening so much, try to see if you can feel the song. Each song will feel different for each person, but will usually have a similar emotional reaction to it. I often think of scenarios or personal memories in my head when listening to music, each song having a different scene or memory attached to it, This is largely in part to the energy that I felt from the song. To help with my explanation, I attached one of my favorite songs that has scenes from an animated movie that go along very well with the song. If you don’t quite get the idea of energy in music, watch this video and listen to the song, it might just help you get a better feel for energy in music!

After listening to this song, it a very surreal feeling for me, the song is titled “I Spoke to the Devil in Miami and He Said Everything Would Be Fine” quite the mouth full, but the name has a deep connection with the song. during some of the breaks, you can hear five notes played bu what sounds like a wind instrument. Each of these notes is part of a triad, triads are often referred to as the “Devils Chord” because when played together, they don’t sound very friendly. but if you listen, each time the artist stops talking, you can hear the notes from a triad play, indicating “talking to the devil.” This I think adds so much to the energy of the song, it feels calm and content, but also a little uneasy, which is a very complex feeling to pull off in a song, but after learning this about the song, the title of “I Spoke to the Devil in Miami and He Said Everything Would Be Fine” seems very appropriate.