What We Can Learn about Happiness from Heavy Metal | Alexander Farmiga | TEDxYouth@OCSA

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  • Alexander Farmiga is an avid musician and guitarist. His talk entitled, "What We can Learn About Happiness from Heavy Metal", is about the relationship between music and emotion as well as common misconceptions regarding our happiness. Alexander Farmiga is an avid musician and guitarist. His talk entitled, "What We can Learn About Happiness from Heavy Metal", is about the relationship between music and emotion as well as common misconceptions regarding our happiness. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @AlofD
    @AlofD ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Sometimes comfort doesn't come in a hug, sometimes it comes in a scream.... I needed to hear that today

  • @ivanlandivar1741
    @ivanlandivar1741 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Heavy metal has the most amazing rythms and the lyrics talks of a great variety of subjects. I think heavy metal is wildly misunderstood.

    • @iltotalitario
      @iltotalitario ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep. And we do not care. 😌

    • @magnus1249
      @magnus1249 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iltotalitario right back at ya

    • @iltotalitario
      @iltotalitario ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@magnus1249 I meant: we metal heads do not care if metal is misunderstood and just keep listening and headbanging... that's it.

    • @magnus1249
      @magnus1249 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@iltotalitario oh i took that as you saying you dont care about metal i love metal sleep and death are my personal favorite bands

    • @iltotalitario
      @iltotalitario ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@magnus1249 No problem, man. Lately listening to Entombed, Kvelertak and Horda.

  • @nathanforrest3483
    @nathanforrest3483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    I would argue that there is more merit to heavy metal than most mainstream music. It's an acquired taste not for mass consumption. 🤘🏻

  • @deep_fried_analysis
    @deep_fried_analysis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    What we need is not nessesarily more research into this topic, but most definately that the social sphere adapts to the findings. But most of all that adults and older people simply mind their own business and stop pointlessly judging.

  • @chrisbowers1652
    @chrisbowers1652 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Very well said. Happiness can be found in the smallest of things, even amongst a sea of chaos and setbacks. Having a Monday-Friday where everything seems to go wrong can be forgotten or dramatically downsized after spending a few hours in my garden. Heavy Metal music playing while caring for my roses and vegetables makes me forget about all of the bad. Not completely, but long enough to breathe and re-center myself while finding beauty and peace moshing around in the dirt like a kid. I'm sure it also brings laughter to my neighbors seeing me bouncing around in the mud like a drunken lunatic!! (I don't drink)

    • @umarae27
      @umarae27 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Funnily enough, many of the popular lead singers also don't drink.

  • @andrewmills2136
    @andrewmills2136 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Meshuggah Bleed encourages me to get projects done around my house and it is my motivation to workout. Metal can help to tweak your energy levels.

    • @johnathanpratt944
      @johnathanpratt944 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      New Millennium Cyanide Christ has been helping me to stay motivated with work and stop relapsing. Glad Meshuggah is helping you too!

  • @armlovesmetal1036
    @armlovesmetal1036 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Heavy Metal is the best therapy and for me, it is calming. After a hard day at work, the first thing that came on my radio was either a metal cd or listening to my favorite metal stations on Sirius. Metalheads are a tribe.

  • @littlearsehole75
    @littlearsehole75 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Metal has prevented my death at my own hands more than once.

    • @reggipher
      @reggipher ปีที่แล้ว

      Bit vague

    • @knitknack2285
      @knitknack2285 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@reggiphernot really, I know how it feels to find the right words and scream along with while calming me down.

    • @reggipher
      @reggipher ปีที่แล้ว

      @@knitknack2285 less vague

  • @garethhillary2302
    @garethhillary2302 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Two words, escapism and catharsis, key to experiencing heavy metal and both are essential (within reasonable levels) for a healthy mind.

  • @shiffyrossell1228
    @shiffyrossell1228 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Being a life long metalhead all I can say is...duh.

  • @cvwagon
    @cvwagon ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The ambivalence from the audience and their lack of applause always amuses me , surrounding the topic of metal and it’s communal and therapeutic benefits. Challenging stereotypes. I do wonder how many of them step into that rabbit hole… we metal heads know once we do and it takes hold, it’s a life long affair, even if we attempt to deny it to supplicate to the less informed and arrogant.

    • @knitknack2285
      @knitknack2285 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! You said it well.

  • @gamzezee
    @gamzezee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fasinating!

  • @umarae27
    @umarae27 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's no better feeling than cutting through chaos to then discover life's rhythm pulsating all around & through ya.

  • @Jemppu
    @Jemppu ปีที่แล้ว +15

    TED Talks of limited cultural relevance. Try telling in Finland "we associate heavy metal with unsuccessfulness".

  • @carmeenamack
    @carmeenamack ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The mice didn’t need to rush their time in the maze because they were vibing so hard - them mice moshed their way through, not sprinted

  • @BoWeava
    @BoWeava 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    But...I'm not a mouse.

  • @FarzanasLaw
    @FarzanasLaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting video!!!

  • @EugeneKee
    @EugeneKee ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel happy when I see a moshpit circling around

  • @chrisfrancis6101
    @chrisfrancis6101 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have always loved how "mice" is our only real so called science to humans. The kid that did this "study" left out a ton of empirical eveidence that you bring into by North Europe countries have been showing us for generations!!

  • @tiinagva
    @tiinagva 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very interesting ! Is there a transcript of this speech ? It's so dense and fast that it's quite difficult to follow.... I had to "rewind" several times

    • @BoWeava
      @BoWeava 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry to the young man giving the speech, but it is what it is...✌️🤓

    • @jaketheadventurer2772
      @jaketheadventurer2772 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of TH-cam’s newest features is that many videos, including this one, have a “Show Transcript” button at the bottom of the description.

  • @salsa564
    @salsa564 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The study that he mentioned is obviously flawed. First of all, mice are not human beings. Secondly, who listens to metal music for seven hours straight every day? Also, wouldn’t it depend on what kind of metal you’re listening to? Like yeah, if you force someone to listen to the heaviest most brutal metal against their will, like they do in Guantánamo Bay, that technically is a form of torture, sleep deprivation.

    • @cvwagon
      @cvwagon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It also takes a caloric toll, due to the sheer amount of auditory data being processed. Food for thought , conversely ironic

    • @chrisallbee1755
      @chrisallbee1755 ปีที่แล้ว

      In a 12 hour shift I only get a 30 minute lunch. Headphones in for 10-11 hours a day

    • @codexnecro666
      @codexnecro666 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol they make them listen to Metallica In Guantanamo. Miles away from heavy or brutal metal

    • @brennuvargr4638
      @brennuvargr4638 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@codexnecro666 They were also subjected to 'F Your God' by Deicide, which is pretty darn brutal... But obviously not as brutal as brutal death metal bands.

  • @anaabendroth3460
    @anaabendroth3460 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    FINLAND!!! Finland bands RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @umarae27
    @umarae27 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Angus McSix is a lawyer in real life.
    I think it's Sozos that is a Physicist.
    (Both lead singers in Heavy Metal bands).

  • @FroDough
    @FroDough ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i live my life at 140-150 BPM

  • @IronMaidennnnnnnnnn
    @IronMaidennnnnnnnnn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @fooraapkotjakker8131
    @fooraapkotjakker8131 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Explaining to normies why people listen to metal 🤣

  • @VoidHxnter
    @VoidHxnter ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A ton of the studies that he cited are very obviously flawed. He talks a lot about correlation, but very little about causation. A lot of people turn to heavy metal BECAUSE they are doing bad and want to escape, not the other way around. Also, the mice test was ABSOLUTELY not related AT ALL to successfulness in humans. 7 hours a day metal is way too much stimulation for a mouse, even is way too much for humans. Even if it was just a study only for mice and wasn't meant to be related to humans, that is still a horribly conducted experiment with not much thought behind it.
    He also didn't compare how successful bands were in other genres of music. That's a VERY major part of statistics; you don't hyperfocus on one specific group and try to use that as evidence, you want to gather from a diverse range of sources.

    • @brennuvargr4638
      @brennuvargr4638 ปีที่แล้ว

      "even is way too much for humans"
      Not for me. :P I pretty much agree with everything else you said, though.

  • @annemone5568
    @annemone5568 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very interesting that studies are needed to prove that metal music makes happy. Why don’t they just believe us? Everybody who listens to metal will tell that it makes him or her happy. But there seem to be people who then say noooo, you can’t be happy from this, you are unhappy! - ???? Which part of „makes me happy“ did they not get? Do they really think all these thousands of people on festivals are there and are unhappy when the music is played?? And we buy CDs to feel unhappy? I just don’t get what‘s in people‘s minds.

    • @niemand7811
      @niemand7811 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I think with all the nonsense happening socially and politically that most people are still living in some form of pre-modern christianity or worse.

  • @therealMrGrey365
    @therealMrGrey365 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    MetalMouse

  • @niemand7811
    @niemand7811 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    For the experiment with heavy metal music on mice and rats. That music was not created with rodents' listening capacity in mind. Neither did anyone pretend they would understand the emotional storm being expressed. Rodents can simply not digest it mentally. Of course they would go dippy dally all over the mental space.

  • @marshwitch9610
    @marshwitch9610 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    OR the mice g9t more rebellious. Fackur maze anywaze!

  • @GameplayBitFlipper
    @GameplayBitFlipper 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Metal singers scream so I don't have to

  • @sowas_auch
    @sowas_auch ปีที่แล้ว

    ha;

  • @rycriswell2326
    @rycriswell2326 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God loves bad people. Jesus said to love everyone. God is part of everyone. God is bad people, good and grey soul. There is a Goddess. She is also part of everyone.

    • @raptorrsr5817
      @raptorrsr5817 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      also not real

    • @lottumeb
      @lottumeb ปีที่แล้ว

      The goddess is part of nightwish😊
      She is very real.

    • @rycriswell2326
      @rycriswell2326 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lottumeb yes God Goddess definitely real. you cannot prove they don't exist. They don't want to prove themselves

    • @brennuvargr4638
      @brennuvargr4638 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a load of bullscheisse.

    • @brennuvargr4638
      @brennuvargr4638 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@rycriswell2326 Flying space unicorns cannot be proven they don't exist. They purposefully hide from humans because they know humans would harm then. Why, then, don't you believe they exist?

  • @Jemppu
    @Jemppu ปีที่แล้ว +7

    TED Talks of limited cultural relevance. Try telling in Finland "we associate heavy metal with unsuccessfulness".

    • @raptorrsr5817
      @raptorrsr5817 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alexi Laiho is the direct argument to this 🤘