This compelling interview clip, featuring Selena Gomez and Zane Lowe, delves into the profound mental, emotional, and spiritual power of music. The discussion begins with Selena Gomez sharing a personal practice, explaining that she maintains a dedicated folder of positive music to ensure she only digests content that supports her mental well-being. She highlights the neurological impact of sound by referencing an anecdote about a study involving mice in mazes, where exposure to different music genres—including death metal and classical—visibly affected their behavior. The segment reaches a moving climax when Zane Lowe shares his deeply personal experience with his mother, who is living with advanced dementia. He explains that music has become their most vital form of communication.
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I actually have a folder called positive music.
So if I want to only hear things that I can digest.
So back to your point, music plays a huge part into what happens.
I think mentally, I was actually talking about it before we came in.
Not sure if this is true.
So I might be totally making this up right now, but there was a study about how they
used three mice and they separated them and they had mazes, each of them.
And in one, they played a certain type of music and another, they played death metal
type of really fun, but headbanging music.
And then they did classical music.
It affected each of the mice differently and how they went through the paths and how they
went through the mazes to get to their end point.
And all of them were different.
I don't know if that's true guys.
Well, all I know is there is something neurologically that you feel.
I see it with my mother who has advanced dementia and we can't communicate conventionally anymore.
There's just no conversations.
Thanks, Lena.
But there's no comment.
And it's happening a lot with a lot of people I know.
So I only bring this up because I think it could help people who are in a similar situation
to me where you sort of feel like you're lying to the person that knows you the best.
And when you're not able to communicate conventionally with someone who really knew
when you were lying, even as a kid, you feel like the biggest fraud of all time.
And so the only way I could truly communicate with her was I would play music that she could
relate to and boom, she'd be in the room right there singing.
Oh, that gave me chills.
And, you know, I get an I love you back when music is playing.
And so it's really beautiful.
It's taught me a lot about the power of music and frequency and the notes and the truth that
comes out of that.
And you feel that more than anyone when you make music.
Oh, definitely.
Even when I'm able to perform it live, I feel it viscerally.
I feel the passion behind every word I say, every beat, every moment I can hit.
It just makes it more satisfying because it comes from a place of honesty.
I had no idea that that's really.
I'm really sorry, but it's really beautiful that you were able to find that.
And it is true that is communicating.
There were studies being done to look into that.
I believe it.
