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The topic of HSP ( Highly Sensitive Person) - Let´s discuss and chat

I'm in the process of teaching myself to consume more positive news and uplifting stories.

Despite being an HSP, I am drawn towards true crime stories and sensationalist stuff. Yeah, admittedly 😬, and I guess that's just how we are as humans.

I realized that this habit adds to my negativity and even anxiety.

So, I try to listen to HAPPY NEWS podcasts and subscribe to GOOD NEWS newsletters, even though I find the concept a bit naive lol.

So, this morning I found myself smiling, even giggling when listening to some news about penguins receiving physiotherapy 😆😍
 
bluemoon7 said:
I'm in the process of teaching myself to consume more positive news and uplifting stories.

Despite being an HSP, I am drawn towards true crime stories and sensationalist stuff. Yeah, admittedly 😬, and I guess that's just how we are as humans.

I realized that this habit adds to my negativity and even anxiety.

So, I try to listen to HAPPY NEWS podcasts and subscribe to GOOD NEWS newsletters, even though I find the concept a bit naive lol.

So, this morning I found myself smiling, even giggling when listening to some news about penguins receiving physiotherapy 😆😍
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Me, listening to podcasts about psychopaths and killing people in PS-games while giggling like an evil witch 👀:ROFLMAO:

But the penguin thing sounds very interesting, indeed 😁
 
So nice how they take care of them 😁 - I immediately had to think about this (sorry for the off topic, but it's too funny)

 
I would like to open a thread on the following topic. Do you think this is interesting? Does a thread with this topic already exist?


The beauty and power in Michel Jackson´s "simple" songs

I have been trapped for most of my life in this (predominantly white male) intellectual belief that songs like "Heal the world" especially, but also "Earth Song", and even the worldwide beloved "We are the World" are too simple, and too pleasing to the ear ... too popular to be "good music". Mostly white male music critics and guys of my Gen X made me believe that these songs are too cheesy, kitsch and shallow to be taken seriously, (and therefore also serve as evidence to the assumption that Michael Jackson is not to be taken seriously as an artist).
It has been only a few years that I have been questioning (shame inducing) criticism and intellectualism that merely comes from the head, from thoughts. As I am growing older, I am opening up to accepting my own vulnerability and emotions (I have always struggled with and being shamed for), basically to live more in my heart than off of my brain/thoughts.

As we know, Michael Jackson wrote his often donned "simple", heartfelt songs to elicit our vulnerability and compassion. He chose a musical language that tried to include as many people as possible. He knew that we have to open our hearts and listen to our fellow human beings to "make that change".

Let´s discuss how intellectualism can sometimes be a trap to opening our hearts. Do you feel the same? What are your experiences with this? Why is it that we as humans so often put our heads over our hearts in the first place? And finally: Are Michael´s songs (see above) too simple to be good / to be art?
 
bluemoon7 said:
[...] Let´s discuss how intellectualism can sometimes be a trap to opening our hearts. Do you feel the same? What are your experiences with this? Why is it that we as humans so often put our heads over our hearts in the first place? And finally: Are Michael´s songs (see above) too simple to be good / to be art?
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Fabulous post. I particularly want to stand up for WATW - Michael gave that song a specific job to do and it worked brilliantly.

I will just add to your final question by re-posting a quote (about HTW) from Susan Fast's book on the Dangerous album ...

Susan Fast - 'Dangerous'. P.82:
"One of the reasons - perhaps the main one - that Heal The World is so easy to write off is because it's so laden with convention. There's a deep-rooted suspicion of convention in Western culture ... We think that conventions make for meaningless art ..."
 
zinniabooklover said:
Fabulous post.
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zinniabooklover said:
I particularly want to stand up for WATW - Michael gave that song a specific job to do and it worked brilliantly.

I will just add to your final question by re-posting a quote (about HTW) from Susan Fast's book on the Dangerous album ...

Susan Fast - 'Dangerous'. P.82:
"One of the reasons - perhaps the main one - that Heal The World is so easy to write off is because it's so laden with convention. There's a deep-rooted suspicion of convention in Western culture ... We think that conventions make for meaningless art ..."
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Thank you zin @zinniabooklover That is SPOT ON :love:
 
bluemoon7 said:
I would like to open a thread on the following topic. Do you think this is interesting? Does a thread with this topic already exist?


The beauty and power in Michel Jackson´s "simple" songs

I have been trapped for most of my life in this (predominantly white male) intellectual belief that songs like "Heal the world" especially, but also "Earth Song", and even the worldwide beloved "We are the World" are too simple, and too pleasing to the ear ... too popular to be "good music". Mostly white male music critics and guys of my Gen X made me believe that these songs are too cheesy, kitsch and shallow to be taken seriously, (and therefore also serve as evidence to the assumption that Michael Jackson is not to be taken seriously as an artist).
It has been only a few years that I have been questioning (shame inducing) criticism and intellectualism that merely comes from the head, from thoughts. As I am growing older, I am opening up to accepting my own vulnerability and emotions (I have always struggled with and being shamed for), basically to live more in my heart than off of my brain/thoughts.

As we know, Michael Jackson wrote his often donned "simple", heartfelt songs to elicit our vulnerability and compassion. He chose a musical language that tried to include as many people as possible. He knew that we have to open our hearts and listen to our fellow human beings to "make that change".

Let´s discuss how intellectualism can sometimes be a trap to opening our hearts. Do you feel the same? What are your experiences with this? Why is it that we as humans so often put our heads over our hearts in the first place? And finally: Are Michael´s songs (see above) too simple to be good / to be art?
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Waiting for the thread 😁
 
zinniabooklover said:
Fabulous post. I particularly want to stand up for WATW - Michael gave that song a specific job to do and it worked brilliantly.

I will just add to your final question by re-posting a quote (about HTW) from Susan Fast's book on the Dangerous album ...

Susan Fast - 'Dangerous'. P.82:
"One of the reasons - perhaps the main one - that Heal The World is so easy to write off is because it's so laden with convention. There's a deep-rooted suspicion of convention in Western culture ... We think that conventions make for meaningless art ..."
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@zinniabooklover I finally made a thread ... may I transfer your post to this new thread?
 
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