Are craving disorders the reason EDM Drop works so well?
According to a Melbourne University researcher, the EDM drop holds the key to understanding craving disorders.
Kiralee Musgrove is currently looking for volunteers to take part in the study. The volunteers have to be into EDM music. The research is an attempt to use science to try and figure out why the EDM drop does wonderful things to people.
“We’re looking for people to help us understand why and how certain people crave what we call ‘the drop’ when they’re listening to electronic music.” Said Musgrove in an interview with 774 ABC Melbourne
The Melbourne University is looking for volunteers who are between the ages of eighteen and forty. They also have to be proficient in English, have healthy hearing, and be into the dreamy sounds of EDM.
Waiting for the EDM drop —where instruments, rhythms and the volume ascend to a peak before the song transitions to the normal rhythm—is a very predictable formula, according to Musgrave.
The EDM drop is also key to his ongoing study craving disorders study. The motivation behind Kiralee’s idea to conduct this study is that people generally use music to regulate their emotions.
Musgrove wants to understand why EDM fans crave the drop as much as they do. The hope is that by figuring out why EDM fans crave the drop it will help create therapies for people with craving disorders. This also includes eating disorders, self harm issues, and substance abuse disorders.
Good intentions aside, this thought process seems to lend to the idea that there is something especially magical about the EDM drop. However, there appears to be no apparent mystery behind why people enjoy the drop in music. Particularly that the drop is predictable is part of what makes it so satisfying for the listener. Either way it could be interesting to see what comes out of this EDM drop study.
