Are Your Friends Electric?

This music video makes me so uncomfortable.  In turn this song makes me uncomfortable every time I hear it.  I love it.  It’s strange to think that I love something that makes me uncomfortable.  When you think about it, aside from expressing yourself, the ultimate goal of music and the arts is to make the person who is consuming it feel something…anything.  That’s the appeal of art.  Whether it be movies, books, music or sculptures, the ultimate appeal that it has on us is that we can somehow relate to it on an emotional level.  An entertaining movie will never compare to a movie that I can relate to on an emotional level. 

I don’t see myself as a dark or negative person, but I have realized that it is far easier for music and other forms of expression that are darker to make me feel something.  A Damien Rice song makes me sad, a Flaming Lips music video makes me uncomfortable, a Jenny Saville painting makes me feel disgusted and I absolutely love all of the above for that very reason.  So why don’t happier, more positive forms of expression make me feel as happy as a Flaming Lips song makes me uncomfortable?

This is my strange emo rant for the day…hopefully for my entire time on tumblr haha.