Can electronic music make you cry?

Yes, absolutely. Skeptics: listen to the song All That Makes Us Human Continues by BT. It’s one of the most moving and breathtaking songs I’ve ever heard.

Any one work can make any one person feel anything. That is the point of art. I have no idea why someone would assume otherwise.

I can’t say I’ve ever had to cry due to any music, electronic or not.

But it seems foolish to think that electronic music is not allowed to produce emotions. A keyboard is just as much of an instrument as a piano, or a guitar, or a set of drums. They just produce different noises.

And anyway, if the music is recorded and put onto a CD, or mp3 (or whatever other format), that’s going through a computer as well, and most likely tweaked on one too.
So I guess even if it’s all non-electronic instruments, if it’s put together on a computer, you can’t cry at it either.

New rule, I guess, you can only cry at live music events, with no electronics involved (No amps, no mics, no speakers, no electric guitars…).

You betcha, any music, or anything can elicit an emotional tearing.

I don’t know about electronic music but I sure know that Muzak makes me want to cry, it is so damn awful.

Yes, of course it can. Music is music. Most of the music that makes me cry is classical without words, so that shows that words are not needed to make music moving. To me, it’s more about the actual sound of the music. So just because the instruments are electronic does not mean the effect of the music is somehow automatically lesser.

Pink Floyd mastered the art of tear jerking starting with Dark Side of the Moon. They pioneered many synthesizer electronic sonic mood swinging techniques….simply the best.

Don’t let what other people say or think bother you. Even if you were the only one in the world who was able to cry listening to certain electronic music (and you’re not), it doesn’t make your feelings inspired by the music any less legitimate.

That said, I’m not a huge fan of most electronic music that I hear, but some of it that I’ve heard has absolutely done crazy things to my emotions.

What a way to expound their own experience to include the entire human race.

There are many electronica songs that can move me to tears. Even incredibly happy electronic music can make me cry.

Perhaps they’ve not been listening to the right kind of electronica?

Yes. Any musical artist and any musical genre can make someone cry.
If you listened to a song during a specific time of your life which made you cry, and you listened to that same song in the future, that song can be used as a psycological anchor that triggers past emotions.

I don’t think I have ever been moved to tears by any kind of music. I am sometimes moved to tears by lyrics in a song though.

Absolutely, if some one put their own feelings into a creation, then it can move anyone if they’re willing to be moved.

In my opinion, most of the more emotion-inducing electronic music is found in electronica, and specifically where it intersects with post-rock. There is a LOT of overlap between the two genres. Think The American Dollar, or God is An Astronaut.

But it depends on many things, and not necessarily on whether the music is upbeat or not. I have personally cried listening to Daft Punk’s Aerodynamic epic guitar part! In my experience, tears usually take me by surprise, mostly when the music’s beauty suddenly touches me. It’s a pretty spiritual experience, but most importantly deeply subjective. It really depends on you.

I think one could cry listening to any music genre, and for a huge number of different reasons. Is the beauty of the music suddenly too much to handle? Is it the memories the music brings back? Is it because the lyrics move you? How so? Do they make you sad, or on the contrary infinitely happy? etc etc

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