Making everyone see what you feel in music.

I've come to this question many times and it just strikes me as to are we that different from each other?

What does it take for a person to see the other's feelings? the experience which brought the feeling it self? does someone has to be rejected to know what being rejected is like? in music when someone expresses sad feelings in his first version of music, I think this is what truly the person feels, that first version of the music. Although we disagree on the forms of how sad music should sound, and we want him to change it to be more general to the taste. The whole point of the sad song just disappears and becomes more of a reminder than the experience of that sad moment.

In the end, isn't it possible that if the person who was listening to this first version of sad music, would instantly love this music IF and only IF he or she experienced the same exact experience as the person who made the music?

How does one make people see the experience before having them listen to the music?

Sorry for the complicated topic. Its just something that made me curios what the everyone thinks of the topic and yes I know everyone has a different taste in music but I really think that there is some music out there that can touch everyone and I mean EVERYONE (love or sad music).

well...... it's a very interesting topic mate... ...

I don't think what you're talking about is possible. Everyoneis going to interpret what they see, hear, and read through the lens of their own experience, and assign the emotions they carry to those things. They may be similar to yours, they more likely won't be.

Using the 'sad music' analogy you posted, what is sad for one person on an experiential level may trigger a different set of emotions for another simply because they find the chord progression or melody pleasing to them.

My mother, who died when I was 12, was a Ray Charles fan, and used to listen to him a lot at home. The first time I remember her listening to him was about 1963, I was 8 years old, she was driving a big Chrysler convertible, top down, with a polka dotted scarf on her head and Jackie Kennedy sunglasses on, with the radio cranked singing along with Ray. She semed so happy then, and every time I hear a Ray Charles song, regardless or which one it is, I flash on that one moment in time and that picture in my mind comes forth like it was last week. I doubt that anyone else shares that experience or those emotions, and IO doubt Ray had that in mind when he wrote his songs, but there it is.

Nailed it...

Maybe the real art of songwriting and performing is delivering a captivating emotion or message, but people will always interpret that based on what BlueStrat said. Look at the song Purple Rain by Prince. It's certainly a home run as far as emotional impact, but I'm sure what I get out of it is different than what emotional experience inspired Prince to write and deliver that performance.

Maybe the most any artist can do is create music that provokes emotion, but you can never expect an identical emotional reaction from the listeners.

I've always felt that's where music is really magic.

There's a special talent in taking a (to you) specific emotion or mindset that is connected to a definite time/place/set of circumstances and making the essence of it accessible on a broad scale to people who share nothing in common wit you.

Especially so when the writer has never personally experienced what they're writing down.

I also thought of Bruce Springsteen saying how he disliked making videos of songs, because it took that personal interpretation that everyone had and put a single one in it's place - i.e. sing 'my father's house' and everyone has a different picture and impression until you show it in a video.

Great story.......