ARITRO GHOSH
The Music of Nightlife
O
ne of the most talked about parts of our everyday lives
is the concept known as Nightlife. It is a concept for
the sole purpose that it carries with it a very distinct
culture, with definitions that are worth understanding. Some
would even refer to it as another world, with an atmosphere
worth exploring, which we wouldn’t see unless we purposely
walk through that door; and the music that comes with it helps
create different dimensions within that ever so secret world.
The music can be dark or light, groovy or slow, meaningful or
even sinful. Nightlife is known to be the life wherein you meet
your true inhibitions, and the playlists, with it’s resultant aura
does exactly that.
Now, not to be a brag about the essence of nightlife and it’s
music, but it is admittedly one of the most fascinating things
that human life has to offer. To quote a phrase from the well-
known song It Must have Been Love: “It’s where the wind
blows”. The fascination is what it is due to the magic of the
different types of music that are played all round, including
English rock, electro, dance, slow romantic, classical remix,
and even different forms of bollywood remix, and each type of
genre will cause a different mood. It’s much like the concept
behind each type of alcoholic drink creating different moods;
anger, sadness or even happiness within an individual.
The night life is all about letting go of your troubles; anything
and everything that may be bothering you, or it’s just because
now its become a force of habit; the main reasons why you
engage in the life, and based on which the music engages you.
As you listen to the different types of music, in random order,
while standing in a club, you’ll realize how each tune slowly
affects you and why. If you look deeper, each person has a
deep connection with a certain type of music, and when both
exist in an equal terrain such as this, there results a chemistry
which is unusually romantic.
For certain people, groovy dance music acts as a trigger, while
for some it acts as an inhibitor. For others, it may be anything
from hardcore rap to 90s love songs. To be exact, it happens
in the exact way whether or not you’re a few or four drinks
down. The music creates the mood, and then slowly controls it;
it manages to mellow down your conscious, and suddenly the
subconscious lover in you has woken up and is on the dance
floor, doing things the conscious you only dreams of while
sitting in the bedroom. This depicts more than just the inner
emotions of the person, but even the person himself.
There is such a thing as “being high on music”. All music
lovers have been at the some point; they need not be party-
goers or the nightlife type to have felt it. This is as the concept
of being high or getting high is just your individual brains
getting triggered; and your dopamines and endorphins getting
released to the point you start realizing the true nature of what
exactly you yearn for. The stimulation is on a very different
level when it comes to music that has been made just for that.
Death metal is but the basic, and bringing out the sociopath in
you acts as just the foundation. It’s surprising but sometimes
you’ll notice that psychedelic music is of a class on it’s own,
because even it contains much poetry, just like gothic music.
The different types of music have triggers which look the same
on the surface, but internally everyone is feeling a different
emotional high.
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