Matching Music to Your Mood

what if you could have the perfect music. to match every one of your moods let's. talk about that. hi i'm jesse and i'm michelle and we're. at the top of the seattle space needle. good mythical morning. [Music]. good mythical morning welcome to today's. show it's a new week we trust that. you're wearing blue and red like we are. we did not coordinate this but i you. know i we did our fashion.

sense is in sync and that's interesting. because i think in this episode we're. going to explore how some other things. like our taste in music and moods could. potentially be in sync please don't hit. me um. i hope you're in a good mood today but. no matter what mood you're in i. trust that this will tickle your fancy. okay. i i promise you your fancy will be. tickled and how would that happen. um well because there's there's an. article about something about matching. music to your moods and we're going to.

play we're not going to play a game. we're going to do an experiment here. that i think is going to be fun and it's. going to tickle fancies okay around the. globe how is it going to work link. okay brain scanning headphones match. songs to your mood this is a mashable. article that i've. come across. miko headphones developed by neuroware. the headphones feature a protruding. electro. phallograph. sensor that scans brain patterns to. match a person's mood with an. appropriate song headphones that say.

what mood you're in oh here's the. perfect song for that when plugged into. a smart device running miko's app the. headphones detect the wearer's state of. mind and select a neuro tagged mood. fitting song from neuralware's database. genius the sides of the ear pieces. illuminate when music plays and even. show symbols such as z z z zees if the. user is sleepy stressed or focused okay. it's pretty cool this is pretty awesome. i've always wanted this now we don't. have these headphones but what we do. have is we have jason. uh and we also have our uh itunes.

libraries here's what we've done jason. can always tell when when i'm in a sour. mood or. a nice mood or and his nickname is mikko. but it is now so anyway uh what we did. is jason gave us a list of moods and he. said go through your itunes library and. select a song that you think and. reinforces this mood for you personally. each of us independently we didn't share. our answers so what we're going to do. now is we're going to state a mood and. then i'm going to assume the mood i.

don't know about you if you say sad i'm. going to be sad because i feel like i. got the best sure i'll do that and then. that way we can judge a whose song is. playing and who's better at the mood and. there's a chance that when he plays a. song because we don't know what song. whose song he's going to play there's a. chance it could be both of our songs. because i think we've demonstrated we. both spend a million dollars on the same. thing we both travel back in time to do. the same thing and we both like to wear. red and blue on this day in our lives if. one of our songs matches.

listen man i'll buy you a itunes gift. card for like 20. and i'll buy you we'll buy each other 20. itunes gift card okay switcheroo okay. mood number one play along at home if. you want to uh in whatever fashion. you can you can guess the song or agree. or disagree with it if it represents the. mood ambivalent. [Music]. you picked this this is your song what.

is this oh no it's kenny g man the kitty. g think about it it's like. i don't care. whatever man this actually seems a. little cool like i'm walking down the. street in like the 70s or something yeah. you don't care about it like in an. elevator do you feel good about that. about i don't care i'm ambivalent i. think i think it's a little too cool to. be okay a little too cool to care let's. hear a link song for ambivale what's my. ambivalent.

i don't care it's grizzly bear man it's. a grizzly bear song. it was kind of weird isn't it i think. it's sad it's too sad. it's sad but it's also sad. is a is an angle of ambivalency kenny g. is just he doesn't care about anything. that's why i picked him okay next mood. are you ready for. [Music]. i got angry.

i got rights too. and this time there won't be no damn. lawyers to protect you. you know this song right now oh yeah. is this yours too hank jr no this isn't. mine mine's quite different now let just. let me explain my here mine mine is. angry because like this guy the whole. story of this song is that the guy. who killed his wife and child. was let out of.

was was let off like the judge let him. go. and now hank jr is going after him. [Music]. let him have it with a gun he's angry. he's angry you don't get any angrier. than killing your wife and children this. isn't a bad choice and it's an awesome. song by the way you should download this. i got right here my angry song. [Music].

i don't want to get too angry that's a. good one i knew you were going to choose. rage against the machine yeah i'm raged. i don't own any raging sn machine that's. your problem now hank jr singing rage. against the machine that has happened. that would be pretty awesome what else. we got paranoid. okay this isn't bad this is yours yeah. [Music]. okay i'll give you an a plus on this one.

what about mine. [Music]. should i get married today. i don't know somebody trying to marry me. somebody's trying to marry me i'm. paranoid that's uh you see how it works. my mind's better but yours is okay maybe. okay now let's go with the. straightforward everybody let's get. happy.

this is yours. [Music]. hey i am pretty happy yeah i think that. i think that you have chosen a happy i. don't remember which one i chose but it. can't be that happy. robbie i guess re-injured my stuff oh. [Music].

of i knew it from the start. i saw your face and that's the last i've. seen of my heart. it's not as happy as robbie it's got a. float in it well it's pretty good that's. enough no. i i i could beat you on that one man a. flute rob basin dj easy rock rob put a. flute in it you won the previous round i. won it's not even a game anywhere i felt. like i was sailing okay blah.

[Music]. this is actually kind of sad isn't it. let's play minecraft is yours more black. [Music]. that's sad too this is bony bear.

this is the like worst bony bear song in. the whole album the one at the end. it's the blossom. like. all of these faces i'm sure are going to. be plastered in still form on the red. link community cranky. this is you. don't mess with me. i'm cranky.

i get it that's going right. okay. what what is my block i can't remember. no. crank below i mean craig cranky. i think i was just kind of at a lawsuit. i got bored at this point i was just. like i like fighting i'm a big fan of. fights i'll put some feisty i own all. her albums but she's not cranky i'll get. at least not right now i i could i. didn't i have nothing cranky you can cut. it i have nothing cranky in my itunes. collection i think i redid my back wrong.

but i am a fan of feist. or feast as i sometimes call it how. about mischievous mischievous jesus. [Music]. i wouldn't call this okay it is mischief. when i look at you do it it's. mischievous. i i don't think any sade song can be. anything except uh sexy. that's what i took sultry that's what i. took mischievous no that's like you're.

up to something like a child what's my. mischievous. [Music]. i think mine's a little bit more. mischievous all right next one. devastated. pressed against my belly.

george jones listen to the words. [Music]. it's devastating. but nothing's ever hurt. as bad as losing you all right what did. i pick he talked about getting like. poked in the eye and getting his eyes. gouged pretty devastating getting like. his toes cut off the mood of the song is. not devastating but the words are the.

words are and that's this is one it was. a it was a stranger but you gotta get. juxtaposition you gotta get the music. right listen to what i do. [Music]. she's unhappy. with me. that's kind of sad. it's the saddest country song ever. written merle haggard is the it's called. sing a sad song i can't argue with it i.

i felt like merle haggard was such a. holy person that i couldn't pick him for. anything. or i would pick him for everything but. okay. i'll give you that one and is this the. last one i believe it is ladies and. gentlemen saving the best for last and. unfortunately i didn't pick one for. hungry so this is all you buddy oh you. didn't pick one for hungry nope. hungry i'm hungry. hello. [Music].

it's like he's looking at salamis and. breads and stuff. think about it. [Music]. cause you know just how to taste i think. you're thinking about the weird album. and you know just where to go in my. mouth which doesn't exist to tell you so. much.

i'm so hungry. i get hungry whenever i hear how i don't. want you man that's just not how it. works what do you mean how it works i. hear that and i get hungry no that's not. how no it's the opposite if you are. hungry what songs do you want to play to. a company that you're hungry you didn't. even pick one dude yeah because. i thought it was my hunger is too sacred. what song makes you hungry or if we're. going by the book here what do you want. to hear when you feel hungry let us know. in the comments below and wear your red. and blue angry customers at a restaurant.

hey garcon. listen we've been here for six hours. yeah all i've got is some some of this. bread man. and i'm eating all the bread we like. bread we i mean i love bread i hate. bread now he doesn't even like brewing. bread for me and i'm full of bread i. love bread before i got here and now you. ruined it. what were you gonna say. we really need a song to accompany this. anger oh it's done in post.

i've just got to let you know. [Music].