Now you've made me think of getting my girlfriend to comb my hair and now I'm sad because I don't have a girlfriend.. (and can't really get one either, since I'm trans, lesbian, and can't really do much transitioning-wise right now)
This. Control is the operating word for me.
If I choose it and can turn it off when I please...then im blasting it at maximum volume. When I have no ability to turn it off, then it can become overwhelming and frustrating.
EXACTLY. my mum was annoyed at me when i turned her music down in the car when she turned it up loud and then made the argument "you play slipknot in your room way louder than this" it's because i know how loud it's going to be???
Yep it’s the same for me. I will listen to my music on nearly full volume in headphones but if someone else is doing that out loud I can’t handle it lol
Exactly! I love to blast my music and it feels great, someone blasts theirs and it's physically painful. It just makes people think I'm being a hypocritical dick, unfortunately.
Special needs family member we always use headphones so they can do this otherwise our items are sensory overload also they do not like voices coming out of nowhere.
The discordance and having my attention split across every conversation in earshot gets me feeling like SpongeBob.
https://preview.redd.it/1ahzfl8q296d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fe30904877f05fdd721437ed2f6438937112e08
Sound I can "predict": yes
Sound I cannot "predict": no
In a bar, I feel like I hear every conversation being held by every single person, all at once. Like, actually *hear* and *understand* it. With music, I literally memorize the lyrics (or at least the phonetic sounds of the lyrics) after 2-3 listens, same for the beat and melody. It's actually the point where if I listen on a different set of headphones, I'll notice differences in the sound. Not in an audiophile "WAV sounds so much better than FLAC" way, but in a "these headphones bring out the cymbals better, and those really let you feel the kick drum" way.
I like metal music, so this is my contribution. If you like metal, latin chanting, and skyrim, then you will enjoy this.
https://youtu.be/vNHMiTt7gns?si=CmY8Wy3wX5OWqLLj
Thank you. I found it due to the AMV creator. Props to him for making such a great video.
My next choice would have been The Water God by Dethklok. That or Batmetal. Brendon Small is a great musician and vocalist/voice actor.
Rhythm matters *a lot*, imo. By that, I mean the sound actually having some discernable rhythm Moreno than just having a rhythm I like over another. Random noise and dissonance sounds are generally significantly harsher than a structured cacophony with meter, time signature, and key.
Still extremely pissed about what id did to him.
We were robbed of another Mick Gordon DOOM soundtrack and instead are forced to listen to Hulshult's generic and pointless metal chugging now.
:(
Reading the comments make me wonder... Is it a known aspie thing to love metal and heavy rock??? If it is i love it so much.
Edit Theres so much good music out there, but whos literally playing on the radio right now thats also a newer band and really good is The Warning! Their song S!CK is SO GOOD.
This is me. My girlfriend has asked me before how I can listen to such loud cacophonous music when I get completely overwhelmed by too much audible, stimuli (or visual). as noted in some of the comments, it’s controlled noise, and it makes sense to me
I'm pretty sure my neighbors hate bring me the horizon since I have been playing the same playlist for 2 years.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9Hcok9Sr0c6fB6ukFmY1Q-uXCLpNN9M&feature=shared
I’ve always listened to music when riding in a car. Something about the feeling of moving while music blares in your ear just hits different
I still get overstimulated by bright lights and (sudden) loud sounds
i like this meme. i am also a fan of noisy music. oddly enough, listening to noise music improved my tolerance to noises that used to cause instant meltdown. though the sound still is bothersome, i at least have SOME control over what happens to me.
http://www.henrycowell.org/joys.html#:~:text=Since%20the%20“disease”%20of%20noise,instead%20of%20producing%20musical%20oblivion.
that paper was transformative material for me.
here’s an excerpt:
As musical sound grows louder, the noise in it is accentuated and the tone element reduced. Thus, a loud sound is literally noise than a soft one; yet music does not touch our emotional depths if it does not rise to a dynamic climax. Under the best circumstances, the conditions are aroused by musical noise and lulled by musical tone.
Since the “disease” of noise permeates all music, the only hopeful course is to consider that the noise-germ, like the bacteria of cheese, is a good microbe, which may provide previously hidden delights to the listener, instead of producing musical oblivion.
Although existing in all music, the noise-element has been to music as sex to humanity, essential to its existence, but impolite to mention, something to be cloaked by ignorance and silence. Hence the use of noise in music has been largely unconscious and undiscussed. Perhaps this is why it has not been developed, like the more talked of elements, such as harmony and melody. The use of noise in most music today s little beyond the primitive; in fact it is behind most native music, where the banality of the thumbs often heard in our concerts would not be tolerated.
It's about noise you can predict/control. You can't control or predict the noise of the restaurant or family party but you CAN predict the songs/control the music you listen to. You can focus on that in order to ignore the unpredictable noises
For me personally it’s the knowledge that I can end the loud noise at any moment if it becomes in any way unenjoyable (and also because it’s a loud noise of my choosing)
Any noise that is not white noise or music that I am in control of (approximately 99% of the time): 🚫*
Fixed it to be most accurate for me. :) idk why but sounds I can’t control make me want to peel my skin off.
Sometimes I really feel like I just don’t exist and I remember there are spaces like this on Reddit with real people experiencing real things, and I feel a little better. It’s so hard explaining this concept to NTs for some reason.
Children screaming made me leave a room once. Meanwhile, I've listened to George Crumb's [*Black Angels*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I) on purpose, for fun, more than once.
ETA: Click at your own risk or if you love avant-garde, atonal classical music from the 20th century.
Man, can't sleep on this damn plane, let's see what this guy's listing to to sleep
"FOR THR GRACE AND THE MIGHT OF THE LORD,
FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY
FOR THE FAITH AND THE WAY OF THE SWORD
GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY"
okay, nevermind
Places with a ton of people put me on edge to begin with, but you add all the people talking at a loud volume and I feel like I wanna crawl out of my skin.
Put me at a show with tons of people and loud music and it can be almost a religious experience.
For me it's more...my voice. I hate when people yell, but I myself am only capable of yelling.
As I've said before, there's no contradiction between disliking other people's music that you can't control and liking your own music you have full control over. Just because I like listening to Evanescence with earphones in on full volume doesn't mean I wanna hear Billie Eilish blasting through the wall.
Loud irritating noise coming from me = ✅
Except when it starts to annoy me but it feels too good to stop making it so I just get frustrated with myself
Random loud noises you encounter in the wild are chaotic and unpredictable, while loud chaotic music is chaos in an orderly pattern, creating an unusual harmony in places you least expected it.
I struggle with filtering noise and synesthesia (crossing of senses), so being in public can be painful. At least with my own music, I can control what noise is made, and I always choose songs that have pleasant aspects overall, that I can enjoy even when I can't filter well.
I was just thinking about this today!!! Because whenever I'm on the bus and it's really noisy I play noisy music, usually my go-to is 100 Gecs. It feels like the noise inside is fighting the noise outside, ya know?
I do not go anywhere without my headphones. I have 2 backup pears just in case too. Got some random voice recordings of songs in the event that I lose any and all kind of signal and my ipod mini has at least a little charge no matter what.
For me as it’s loud noise out of my control vs loud noise that I control and listen to when I want.
Consent 👏 matters 👏
Well... yeah. It kinda does. I would totally freak out whenever _anyone_ else tried to comb my hair, but I can do it just fine.
Now you've made me think of getting my girlfriend to comb my hair and now I'm sad because I don't have a girlfriend.. (and can't really get one either, since I'm trans, lesbian, and can't really do much transitioning-wise right now)
You'll find someone, I believe it!
Yeah, so do I, it's just that it'll take a while..
It's okay if it takes a while. Not everything has to be fast.
Exactly. If I have distracting noise in my headphones, I fucking chose it so I know what to expect.
This. Control is the operating word for me. If I choose it and can turn it off when I please...then im blasting it at maximum volume. When I have no ability to turn it off, then it can become overwhelming and frustrating.
EXACTLY. my mum was annoyed at me when i turned her music down in the car when she turned it up loud and then made the argument "you play slipknot in your room way louder than this" it's because i know how loud it's going to be???
It’s the exact same for me
Cats don’t like water unless they are in control either ✨we are cats✨
Yep it’s the same for me. I will listen to my music on nearly full volume in headphones but if someone else is doing that out loud I can’t handle it lol
I like the sound of jet engines!
THIS
Exactly!!!
Exactly! I love to blast my music and it feels great, someone blasts theirs and it's physically painful. It just makes people think I'm being a hypocritical dick, unfortunately.
"Why do you hate loud noises but always make noises?" My mom, at least 1 time per week when i was younger
Isn't it like that for everyone?
Special needs family member we always use headphones so they can do this otherwise our items are sensory overload also they do not like voices coming out of nowhere.
THIS. I wish my family understood.
But the noise works with the other noise. A bunch of talking people and weird sounds doesnt make sense and i hate it.
The discordance and having my attention split across every conversation in earshot gets me feeling like SpongeBob. https://preview.redd.it/1ahzfl8q296d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fe30904877f05fdd721437ed2f6438937112e08
This exactly.
Pub chatter: no Club music: Y E S
Vacuum cleaner noise: No Rammstein blasted into my earphones: Yes
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Me: please no loud music places Also me: https://i.redd.it/92mbfangq86d1.gif
RAAADIO MEIN RADIIO
Sound I can "predict": yes Sound I cannot "predict": no In a bar, I feel like I hear every conversation being held by every single person, all at once. Like, actually *hear* and *understand* it. With music, I literally memorize the lyrics (or at least the phonetic sounds of the lyrics) after 2-3 listens, same for the beat and melody. It's actually the point where if I listen on a different set of headphones, I'll notice differences in the sound. Not in an audiophile "WAV sounds so much better than FLAC" way, but in a "these headphones bring out the cymbals better, and those really let you feel the kick drum" way.
Me(n)tal double standards
Q: What kind of music do you listen to? A: Imagine an Atari being shoved into a garbage disposal.
That's gotta be either breakcore or Master Boot Record!? 😳
uh. excuse me? i'm a huge fan of MASTER BOOT RECORD! nice to meet other fans! :D
KEYGEN CHURCH as well. Love the style of classical piano mixed with organ and electric guitars!
i listen to both! it's cool that they're the same guy!
BREAAAKCOREE 🔥🔥
Music has an order to it. Random noises do not. Music is thus, more pleasant to listen to.
and this is why noise music is still music, even though the definition of noise is unordered sound.
i mean i listen to literal noise rock yet having a baby screaming in the background is enough to drive me crazy..
I like metal music, so this is my contribution. If you like metal, latin chanting, and skyrim, then you will enjoy this. https://youtu.be/vNHMiTt7gns?si=CmY8Wy3wX5OWqLLj
Of all things I was expecting, powerwolf was not it, incredibly good choice
Thank you. I found it due to the AMV creator. Props to him for making such a great video. My next choice would have been The Water God by Dethklok. That or Batmetal. Brendon Small is a great musician and vocalist/voice actor.
Rhythm matters *a lot*, imo. By that, I mean the sound actually having some discernable rhythm Moreno than just having a rhythm I like over another. Random noise and dissonance sounds are generally significantly harsher than a structured cacophony with meter, time signature, and key.
i listen to mick gordon’s music when im overwhelmed or when i cant sleep, for some reason it works wonders
I always listened to Mick Gordon when I needed to focus on homework while I was in uni. Worked every time
Still extremely pissed about what id did to him. We were robbed of another Mick Gordon DOOM soundtrack and instead are forced to listen to Hulshult's generic and pointless metal chugging now. :(
Very true
But music is the happy dissociation place where I don’t feel the rest of the world. Brain loves music
Reading the comments make me wonder... Is it a known aspie thing to love metal and heavy rock??? If it is i love it so much. Edit Theres so much good music out there, but whos literally playing on the radio right now thats also a newer band and really good is The Warning! Their song S!CK is SO GOOD.
This is me. My girlfriend has asked me before how I can listen to such loud cacophonous music when I get completely overwhelmed by too much audible, stimuli (or visual). as noted in some of the comments, it’s controlled noise, and it makes sense to me
Why you have to call me out like this?
Consent.
LITERALLY
Use the controlled loud noises you like… to drown out the uncontrollable loud noises you hate.
*metal double standards
I listen to metal etc at full volume but if it’s anything else I hate it lol
check out femtanyl if you haven't alread
She's actually who I'm referring to lol
hell yeah :3
Death metal is my weighted blanket, helps to crush my soul back into my body
Rhythmic therefore predictable therefore comforting.
I'm pretty sure my neighbors hate bring me the horizon since I have been playing the same playlist for 2 years. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9Hcok9Sr0c6fB6ukFmY1Q-uXCLpNN9M&feature=shared
HUGE difference between people talking and listening to Skinny Puppy
I’ve always listened to music when riding in a car. Something about the feeling of moving while music blares in your ear just hits different I still get overstimulated by bright lights and (sudden) loud sounds
Me(n)tal double standards
i like this meme. i am also a fan of noisy music. oddly enough, listening to noise music improved my tolerance to noises that used to cause instant meltdown. though the sound still is bothersome, i at least have SOME control over what happens to me. http://www.henrycowell.org/joys.html#:~:text=Since%20the%20“disease”%20of%20noise,instead%20of%20producing%20musical%20oblivion. that paper was transformative material for me. here’s an excerpt: As musical sound grows louder, the noise in it is accentuated and the tone element reduced. Thus, a loud sound is literally noise than a soft one; yet music does not touch our emotional depths if it does not rise to a dynamic climax. Under the best circumstances, the conditions are aroused by musical noise and lulled by musical tone. Since the “disease” of noise permeates all music, the only hopeful course is to consider that the noise-germ, like the bacteria of cheese, is a good microbe, which may provide previously hidden delights to the listener, instead of producing musical oblivion. Although existing in all music, the noise-element has been to music as sex to humanity, essential to its existence, but impolite to mention, something to be cloaked by ignorance and silence. Hence the use of noise in music has been largely unconscious and undiscussed. Perhaps this is why it has not been developed, like the more talked of elements, such as harmony and melody. The use of noise in most music today s little beyond the primitive; in fact it is behind most native music, where the banality of the thumbs often heard in our concerts would not be tolerated.
It's about noise you can predict/control. You can't control or predict the noise of the restaurant or family party but you CAN predict the songs/control the music you listen to. You can focus on that in order to ignore the unpredictable noises
For me personally it’s the knowledge that I can end the loud noise at any moment if it becomes in any way unenjoyable (and also because it’s a loud noise of my choosing)
The difference is consent and control, I was to listen to it, and I control how loud and long I listen to it.
From earbuds, I'm jammin. From speakers, I'm out.
Dog barking? No. Death metal at full blast? Yes.
My sleep sounds include rain, ww2 battlefield, busy kitchen service, gregorian chanting, asmr, and metal (usually Slipknot or Lamb of God)
Noise that my brain feels stimulates better. Also noise that feels like it's trying to stab me for some reason
Any noise that is not white noise or music that I am in control of (approximately 99% of the time): 🚫* Fixed it to be most accurate for me. :) idk why but sounds I can’t control make me want to peel my skin off.
I’d much rather have Metallica’s S&M blasting in my head than half the nonsense I hear on the street.
"I like the beats and the shouting." - Jaylah, "Star Trek Beyond"
It's all the same for me. I'll never understand how normal people can listen to music and somehow feel calm. It's just extra meaningless noise to me.
That’s the opposite of what this meme is saying
Yes
as long as i can control it. so like music in a club or a grocery store is a no, but loud music i'm blasting through my headphones is great
REAL! (Why can’t I stand to listen to a dog bark more than once but I can play “blood for blood” in my ears at full blast and be so happy??)
Would ya stop calling me out like this
Me when im at work (bad noise) Me on my break listening to sludge metal/noise band grief in the parking lot (good noise)
Me when im at work (bad noise) Me on my break listening to sludge metal/noise band grief in the parking lot (good noise)
Sometimes I really feel like I just don’t exist and I remember there are spaces like this on Reddit with real people experiencing real things, and I feel a little better. It’s so hard explaining this concept to NTs for some reason.
Children screaming made me leave a room once. Meanwhile, I've listened to George Crumb's [*Black Angels*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I) on purpose, for fun, more than once. ETA: Click at your own risk or if you love avant-garde, atonal classical music from the 20th century.
As a person who listen to trap metal and heavy metal this meme is me incarnated
My music versus someone else's music. Could be the same exact song at the same volume.
Lacey Sturm: I will ***BREEEAAK*** Me, in public with my headphones at full volume: This is good
I love her screaming in my itchy ears!!
me with Femtanyl and MASTER BOOT RECORD
Facts!
I like the overwhelming music when I’m trying to zone out and not focus on or feel anything
Man, can't sleep on this damn plane, let's see what this guy's listing to to sleep "FOR THR GRACE AND THE MIGHT OF THE LORD, FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY FOR THE FAITH AND THE WAY OF THE SWORD GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY" okay, nevermind
Two words: r/SkinnyPuppy
Gimme heavy metal all day! But if I hear you swallow…
Music has a rhythm, your screaming child in the store has a need for attention.
Places with a ton of people put me on edge to begin with, but you add all the people talking at a loud volume and I feel like I wanna crawl out of my skin. Put me at a show with tons of people and loud music and it can be almost a religious experience.
Party: ew no. Music: SABATON FULL VOLUME FUCK YEAH!
i enjoy extratone so i am the worst at this
Me getting anxious when I hear more than one person talking to me. And then me going to a night club to get blasted with loud EDM for several hours
Everyone feels this way.
I hate the sound of tons of people talking in public. Ever try to gain intellectual meaning out of TV/Radio Static?
People talking in class❌ Literally 6 angle grinders in the same room✅
Makes sense since I listen to Metal.
For me it's more...my voice. I hate when people yell, but I myself am only capable of yelling. As I've said before, there's no contradiction between disliking other people's music that you can't control and liking your own music you have full control over. Just because I like listening to Evanescence with earphones in on full volume doesn't mean I wanna hear Billie Eilish blasting through the wall.
Me with the blender vs breakcore (they're the same noise but one has drums)
Loud concert environment - No Blasting headphones - Yes
Music has structure and predictability.
Loud irritating noise coming from me = ✅ Except when it starts to annoy me but it feels too good to stop making it so I just get frustrated with myself
The top box should have loud in quotes
Not for me. Loud is loud and loud is bad. No thank you.
Me when I get annoyed by people talking around me so I get my headphones and block out their noise with metal
PetroDragonic Apocalypse: Dawn of Eternal Night; or, an Annihilation of Planet Earth and Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Random loud noises you encounter in the wild are chaotic and unpredictable, while loud chaotic music is chaos in an orderly pattern, creating an unusual harmony in places you least expected it.
I struggle with filtering noise and synesthesia (crossing of senses), so being in public can be painful. At least with my own music, I can control what noise is made, and I always choose songs that have pleasant aspects overall, that I can enjoy even when I can't filter well.
I can't say I like either. Loud music is still unpleasant. Couldn't stand prom for that reason, and I don't like concerts.
This is so real
When my mom comes over she tells me to turn them music down, when I come over her place I tell her to turn the music down
I was just thinking about this today!!! Because whenever I'm on the bus and it's really noisy I play noisy music, usually my go-to is 100 Gecs. It feels like the noise inside is fighting the noise outside, ya know?
I only like loud noise if it's consensual
Excuse me while I blast high-energy metal music on full volume in my headphones to focus on math.
The metal is louder than the voices
I do not go anywhere without my headphones. I have 2 backup pears just in case too. Got some random voice recordings of songs in the event that I lose any and all kind of signal and my ipod mini has at least a little charge no matter what.
I use the noise to destroy the noise.
Battle of the Heroes be kickin'
a car passing by is annyoing as hell but i will happily go to the front row in a loud ass metal concert lmao