AUDIO: NEW APP HEALS YOU WITH MUSIC
A new app is claiming to act as a therapist by creating customized playlists to help listeners deal with their emotions through music. The Emotion Equalization App asks users to fill out three questionnaires to measure emotional status and provide the information needed to create a playlist. The app surveys your mood and energy to create a corresponding therapeutic playlist of songs to change your emotional state or distract you from negative thoughts and pain.
* And then it plays you 24 hours of Bon Iver music. (pronounce ‘Bone EE-vair’, if you’ve never heard of him. See clip below.)
* I tried it. It kept giving me polka music.
* Change your emotional state or distract yourself from negative thoughts and pain? But that’s why we have beer and football.
* And after you’re feeling all better, the app will try to sell you all the songs you just heard.
CLIP: A little bit of Bon Iver’s all-time “At-least-I-don’t-have-it-as-bad-as-this-guy” song, Skinny Love.
