Music and Autism and You and Music? Cheesy 80's inspired video 

The home video clips were cool to see ❤

Yay! Someone else who likes 80"s music. I'm into Alternative rock from the 90"s And 2000"s lately, but i like a wide variety of music. Sometimes I listen to music to match my mood or to change my mood. Thanks so much for this video.

Great video!!! 🎉 80's and 90's music is life for me! The moment I turn on a song, it feels like I go from a neglected Snoopy Christmas tree to the most colourful, vibrant tree that's dancing. My soul feels like it is shining, it's fully alive. I used to daydream to music as therapy, as well, especially on car rides. Oh my my ... I've been all over the world thanks to those songs. People around me are always fascinated by how I know so many lyrics - it's simple, I still listen over and over and over and over again, lyrics just get stuck in my brain like that. Classical music can be great at the right time, but for me it's pop and RnB! 😻

I am 71. The first dream I had was to be a dancer (like Cyd Charisse, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire), then later a singer (also based on musicals and tv shows with people like Dean Martin and Andy Williams. My first favorite song was Moon River. In junior high a new friend introduced me to the Beatles and I discovered the pop and soft rock those my age were listening to. College was difficult and fascinating for me, but thanks to meeting so many different people I discovered an entire world of music. Jazz became my favorite, but I also listened quite a bit to folk, rock, classical, and world music. I was always excited when the album I purchased included the words so I could sing along. Like a few others here I cannot hear most of the words. It is the beat and the emotion that I am mainly attracted to. Michael Jackson and a few other MTV videos got me through my mother's sudden death. This was when MTV was almost entirely music videos. Michael Jackson's music got me through other tough times as well. I have had memory issues my whole life so if someone says to me, "Have you heard the latest Katy Perry song I wouldn't know unless they played me some of it. Then it's, "I know the song, I didn't know it was Katy Perry or what the name of the song was." I still have some of my college records and listen to them when I am crafting. Great video, Jenny. Maybe an idea for the future would be books that have influenced us, or at least are favorites. Thanks also to everyone here who made comments.

Thanks for another great video, Jenny! For me, I prefer my music to be hard, bass-heavy and complex with a strong beat. Genres like drum’n’bass, dubstep, tribal house, EDM world music all do the trick for me. There’s something about the intensity that I find really soothing and transformative. Lyrics are of secondary importance to me. I also really enjoy metal, jazz and classical. I find most pop and rock songs too prescriptive and generic and I just don’t seem to get them somehow.

Ooooooh I love your 80s style videos Jenny! It's lovely seeing a vid of you as a young girl singing too! My fave has always been musical theatre songs. Two that spring to mind are 'Maria' from West Side Story and 'Cheer Up Charlie' from Charlie and Choc Factory! Oh no, now I want chocolate!! 😋😄

Music can make me very emotional. My favorite genre is rock. I like world music a lot too. I am in a Celtic singing group. I love Enya. Most of the time I can't listen to music because I can't focus on what I am doing. But while I am cleaning it is good.

I love music and when I'm in a vehicle, I like it LOUD. When it's loud and music I love, I feel immersed in it. I like a lot of old punk rock, indie, classic rock, some rap, and Coheed and Cambria.

Music is my special interest! Most of my money gets spent on music equipment - I have a pretty decent studio setup at home and one of the best pairs of headphones on the market. When I travel to the office, I'm there on the train rocking out to bands like Sleater-Kinney (my absolute favourite) at full volume and bopping along. I get some funny looks when the train is busy but I really couldn't care less! When I was younger, back in the mid 90s, I collected vinyl LPs and spent my food money on my hifi. By the end of the 90s I managed to get a job at a little music company who specialised in audiophile music and I was in heaven, until it went bust in the early 00s... shame really, being able to listen to music all day, and info-dump to customers was a perfect fit for me. Nowadays I don't bother with vinyl any more and focus more on making my own music. I play guitar and bass and basically make a whole lot of blues music for my own enjoyment. Perhaps I'll release some at some point (I have had a little success with a band I was in 15 years ago) but these days for me it's just the enjoyment of capturing that perfect moment so I can listen to it over and over and over (at full volume!) I guess loud music is very much a stim for me. Weird how so many loud sounds bother me, but music is soooooo satisfying ❤❤❤

This was a great video Jenny! I like the editing. Music has helped me so much especially during my teenage years. Singing is one of my favourite stims!

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YES! Just yes to pretty much every single thing you said! Wow! Also loved tthe 80's style and your clips and just love dit all. Loved all tthe songs you said and always have been a big Michael Jackson fan. I love classical, Pop rock, Christian music. Just yes! I love music & my husband is always amazed that I almost always know all the lyrics. Doesnt everyone? Or maybe just women? Idk? I can relate to this so much! I love a few songs right now. Although I can often go back to some over and over as the current favorite. 1.) Counting my blessings by Seph Schlueter. 2.) Better Place by Rachel Platten 3.) I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone 4.) Deja Vu by Coco jones . Music is compplicated for me. I escape to it. But somehow itt makes me connect to emottions I am not fully able to connect outside of music. I both love it and sometimes avoid it iif others around as it can make me very emotional. Like I attend church but to join in worship is hard because itt is like being naked in a group of people if that makes sense. Suddenly all my emotiions are right there for the world to see and how deep they may be. Kinda hard to say.

Wow Jenny! I can relate to this so much! Music has always been so important to me just like it has been to you.I'm a little older than you so I grew up loving music from the 1960's and into the early 1970's. In my middle teens I probably listened to about 20 hours or more a week of popular rock music most of it on my bakelite vacuum tube radio that I kept next to my bed. That music helped me get through some really rough times being the weird kid that I was. Songs? For Your Love , Silence Is Golden, Last Date, The lion Sleeps Tonight, I Can See Clearly Now, Bridge Over Troubled Water, We'll Sing In The Sunshine, Wings Of A Dove, Turn Turn Turn, Hey Jude, Crazy, Just Like A Woman, Walk Away Renee, Ripple, The Weight, Judy Blue Eyes, Piece Of My Heart and on and on. Besides popular music I really did learn to love classical musical also from about 10 or 11 years old. Your video was a fun interlude and it could have been over twice as long. The 1980's do have a lot of good songs that I enjoy also.

When I look back over my life I think of the chapters in terms of the music I was passionate about, Jenny. The happiest one is when I was into gypsy music, in mid-teens, and my best friend went along with this so it was a definite bonding thing with her. This was not the kind of music most teenagers in the 1960's even knew about. The most intense music period for me was from late '97 to about 2006, and that was Beethoven and nobody else. There were quite a few other music chapters but those 2 were the most long-lasting and obsessive. I tend to listen to the music I love over and over (to the point of driving family members crazy) in any period in my life. Right now I mostly enjoy certain ambient music (somewhat space-y but not coldly so, if that makes any sense) while writing in my diary, doing dishes late at night, or drawing. I play the same tracks over and over, as always. Jenny you have a wonderful zany sense of humor that always makes me smile. Thanks for a super video!

Cheesy is good - more please 😊 The home videos were cool - thank you I have a playlist of around 60 songs that I play on shuffle fairly often, but probably one that I can listen to near endlessly is Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" ... which I think I will have to do now ... I have a few other playlists for times such as when I need an energy boost, or for peace and quiet If I need to focus for a while on something, I find Beethoven's symphonies useful

Interesting. I cannot focus on intellectual work with music "in the backround". I have to listen to music doing nothing else, because I am totally in then. And I feel the need to sing then. And it makes me very emotional. Many music is combined with a specific time in my life and then it hits me too hard that this time is over and I cannot decide to go back. It can make me cry for days. So music is a powerful thing for me. It triggers emotions I cannot identify and then I feel them and it is overwhelming. So mostly no music. If it is classic I am always a conductor. I mean, I FEEL music, I AM the music then. And I really cannot concentrate with backround sounds, it has to be silent. I am sure that's the ADHD. Cannot figure out a specific song right now. But it has to be very dry, slow, silent, minimalistic composed to mirror my actual feelings. Like whispered disturbing poems with slow jazz drums (this brooms if You call it this in english too). Like in that "Twin Peaks" serial I was obsessed with as a teenager. (And obsessed meant I had a coconut with mini-cassettes in there, an owl with a "pirate-eye-thing", a fan shirt with that "who killed Laura Palmer" on it, made a present for a friend who co-loved it which was a choclate-nikolaus I wrapped like zhe dead body in heavy plastic foil, stabbed in it and decorated it with nail-colour-blood (yes, sttange teenager).

I wake-up every day with a random song in my mind. Actually, I've had Lionel Richie's "You Are" stuck in there now going on 4 days. Anytime now another will take it's place but my echolalia has been going around saying, "I've got so much love." Little awkward at the grocery store but hey....It's a quality song. The song before that was America's "You can do magic."

Nice outro, cute.

I did my hair like that when I went to see A-Ha with some friends (about 15 years ago now) - we were the only people there who dressed up 80s style! We were all stonewashed denim & neon🤣

This was a great video! Love your sense of humour 😂 I really enjoyed reading all the comments. I even found a kindred spirit, who doesn't hear lyrics either. Classical music is my favorite, but I prefer to be alone, when I listen to it. Blues, country, bluegrass, and acapella. If you want to hear the best version of Hallelujah, iis K.D Lang, at tthe Vancouver winter Olympics. Definitely worth checking out, if you have never seen it.. I love cheesy, it puts a smile on my face, for the whole day! I was, however, disappointed to find out, that the "house" was not in the middle of the street 😮😂❤

Awesome video Jenny!!! Wasn't cheesy at all. It was on the fun side... was fun to watch. I like SoOo many different genres I don't know which to pick! I used to listen to "Egnima." They have a beautiful tribal spiritual/ethereal type sound... I would listen to over and over as I slept. I did that too with the album "Jar of Files" by Alice on Chains... _*is a beautifully tragic, slow and melodic, album. A whole piece, like Pink Floyd's the wall... One of my all time favorite songs is "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. I also like the "Pina Colada" song... "Escape" And yes... of course "Hallelujah"! Lastly I've always just heard the music first in any song. I breakdown the structure and sound and visualize layers for every different sound... _*especially the repetitive parts... like repeating sounds or samples. My wife on the other hand hears and know the lyrics... I'm *_TERRIBLE WITH REMEMBERING LYRICS_* mostly because I don't hear them in the first place. Thanks Jenny 🙏

Fun video 😂! I can't work listening to music I like, I get too excited. I use these space-y sounds kind of background music or nature sounds like rain. I was born in the late 80s, almost in the 90s. I loved watching Michael Jackson's music videos when I was a kid. I didn't really get why people liked pop music when I was a teenager, everyone was into Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys and I was more into classical music 😅 I went to many classical concerts as a teen. I had an Avril Lavigne phase in high school and was really obsessed with her and her music. Then, after finishing high school I had a major burnout and secretly dropped out of college for a year. Back then I thought I had depression. In that year I focused 100% in music: I learned to play piano and music theory by myself to be able to play the classical pieces I like (Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart), but also discovered Jazz which I really enjoy, especially Charlie Parker, Monk, Bill Evans, and such. Then I discovered progressive metal. In later years I made two friends and we play music from Dream Theater together (only keyboard, drums, and guitar). Videogame music is really important to me. It helps me regulate, such as Super Mario 64, and Pokemon Red & Blue. I also enjoy music from series\movies. My favorites OST are from the anime Cowboy Bebop and the musical Fiddler on the roof.

It's probably easier to say what I don't like I'm not keen on Jazz or Musical theatre stuff, I don't tend to like the boy or girl band style pop stuff. I still have yet to pin down my fav music because there is soo much unlike, Bowie, the Cranberries, Morcheba, Faithless, Seal, Guns and Roses, Black Sabbath, Kiss, Enigma, Orbital, Orb, Genesis, there's a few beat boxers I like, the Beatles, Brian Adams, Nirvana, Queen, New Order, the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Pearl Jam......the list just keeps going...I couldn't pick a favourite band, artist or song I just want most of the music most of the time.😊

Music is a form of stimming for me. I like 80s music in general too...theres a radio station in my country that only has those and i enjoy it. Im a big fan of industrial rock and power metal. About classical music i advise Jan Dismas Zelenka its a central european composer who isnt widely known. But i like his stuff

I'm currently listening on rotation to three seminal 90's albums from the city of bristol england. Portishead dummy. Tricky maxinquaye and massive attack, mezzanine🙋‍♂️

I can't handle song lyrics. I find them too emotional and they seem to affect me personally like I'm going through whatever the artist is. I'll often get upset and stressed listening to songs with Lyrics. Therefore I mostly listen to songs without lyrics. And I like songs with heavy bass, especially good when I can feel the bass, when my hairs on my arms move or when my clothes move due to the air shifting - that's normal right? I've upgraded my car stereo and it's my downtime when I'm driving to/from work. Generally playing music at home is a no no because it disrupts too many people, including my neighbours. Favourite genre is Techno, Trance, and all things 'PSY'. Adagio for Strings is one of my favourites, but of course the dance version by Tiësto, gives me chills down my spine. This music overwhelms all of my senses, and a sense of stillness and peace enters my mind.