Eventually, everything gets rebranded. Dominoes Pizza is now just Dominoes. Sitting “Indian style” is now called “criss-cross applesauce.” Ice cubes are called “water with corners.” Everything old becomes new again.
You’ve probably had “skin orgasms” thousands of times. Probably even during actual orgasms. You just called them something different. You’ll probably call them skin orgasms from now on.
“These moments – termed ‘chills,’ ‘thrills’, ‘frissons,’ etc. – are subjects of introspection and philosophical debate,” begins a new paper by psychologist and musician Psyche Loui and Luke Harrison, a student from Wesleyan University. These skin orgasms are usually caused by a certain type of music, music that has “sudden changes in harmony, dynamic leaps (from soft to loud), and melodic appoggiaturas (dissonant notes that clash with the main melody.”
And which artists are prone to give listeners the longest bouts of skin orgasms? Everyone on your mom’s iTunes playlist.
In a BBC article on the phenomenon, songs like Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’, Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’ and Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ are listed as examples that can create what they call ‘skin orgasms’.
Here you go. Go finish yourself off.
[via NME]