2020-10-07 - Why is halloween music scary?

What tools can a pop song use to affect us psychologically to make us like the songs more? We'll take a look at everything from music theory, to linguistics, to rhetoric, to applied psychology.

• Time signatures 
• The unexpected
• Shifting time
• Repetition vs. new
• Early and late
• Risers and bass drops
• Conscience and unconscience
• The jump scare
• "There is no terror in the bang. Terror is in the anticipation of the bang."  - Alfred Hitchcock
• The cycle repeats and we get used to it. 
• What other songs have this feeling?
• What other aspects (not time signatures) can help the scary feeling?
• BOO!!!