Music can help reduce anxiety, as well as help the mind and body cope with stress @googlefactss #music #psychology

​​The song "Every Breath You Take" by The Police is actually about someone so obsessed with a lost lover, they begin stalking them. Sting says he's troubled by how many people believe it's a love song. @googlefactss #music

Your strongest music-related memories are formed around age 14. @googlefactss #music

Listeners are more likely to describe lyrics as ‘negative’ or ‘offensive’ if they are set to rap music than if they are set to country music. @googlefactss #music

Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" was the best-selling debut album of the 2000s @googlefactss #music #funfact

You begin forming your strongest musical memories around the age of 14 @googlefactss #music

Johnny Cash took only three singing lessons in his childhood before his teacher, captivated with his unique style, told him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice. @googlefactss #music #funfact for more...

The first 5bn streams of Despacito on YouTube used as much energy as 40,000 American homes use in a year. @googlefactss #music #funfact

‘Yé-yé’ was a style of 1960s French music influenced by American rock ‘n’ roll. The name comes from the English ‘yeah-yeah’, which is, as Merriam-Webster puts it, an ‘exclamation often interpolated in rock 'n' roll performances’. @googlefactss #funfact #music For more...

Bob Marley shared his royalties with a soup kitchen so it would be able to stay open @googlefactss #music #legends

Musician and Afro Beat pioneer Fela Kuti, once married 27 Women in one day. @googlefactss #africa #music #nowyouknow

«Billie Jean» by Michael Jackson was mixed 91 times before they decided to go with mix 2. @googlefactss #music

Billie Eilish became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award when she won Best Original Song for the theme to the James Bond film "No Time To Die" @googlefactss #music #celebrities

Listening to sad music can help relieve symptoms of depression, according to a 2019 study published in the journal Emotion. @googlefactss #music

Parts of Marilyn Manson's first album, Portrait of an American Family, were re-recorded at the house where the Manson family killed the Tates


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Music has been proven to effectively lower stress hormone levels @googlefactss #music

Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me in the Ass".

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When Queen wanted to release “Bohemian Rhapsody”, various executives told them that a song with a length of 5 minutes and 55 seconds was too long and would never be a hit. They even played it to other musicians who claimed that the song had “no hope” of being played on the radio.

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In January 1976, promoter Bill Sargent offered The Beatles $50,000,000 for a two-show reunion. They simply had to perform together for twenty minutes per show.

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Taking an old song and just changing the words to make a new song is called contrafactum. Earliest examples of contrafactum date to the 9th century and a famous examples is "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", 1800s adapted from "Marlborough Has Left for the War", 1700s.

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