100 Weirdest Things in Alt-Rock: Part 8
The standard musical diet consists of three things: sex, drugs and rock\u2019n\u2019roll....all three of these stapes affect the same areas of the brain...\nWe\u2019ve talked about this before, but here\u2019s a quick refresher course in neuroscience...\nIn your head, you have the amygdala, the cerebellum and the nucleus accumbens...they\u2019re involved in the process of creating and regulating dopamine, which is the hormone that makes you feel good...\nThese regions analyze what\u2019s going on when you have an orgasm, take cocaine or listen to a great song...dopamine is released into the bloodstream, which is a signal to the rest of the body that says, \u201cthis is good!\xa0\xa0Let\u2019s have more!\u201d...\nNeedless to say, dopamine is a pretty addictive hormone...mix music and drugs and you\u2019re heading down a slippery slope...as we\u2019ve seen many times\u2013including earlier this in this year\u2013things can get very weird very quickly...\nBut musicians taking drugs is often a very solitary and personal thing...with sex, other people are involved...most of the time...but then again, we are talking about weirdness, aren\u2019t we?\nYou might want get the kids and grandma to do something else for the next hour...this is \u201c100 weird things about new rock, part 8"\u2013and the topic what happens when new rock and alternative music mixes with weird sex...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices