“In addition, a fast tempo can cause people to subconsciously speed up to match the beat of the song.” Fast beats can cause excitement and arousal that can lead people to concentrate more on the music than on the road,” LMU psychologist Simon Moore concluded. “Music that is noisy, upbeat and increases your heart rate is a deadly mix. Perhaps there’s also a physiological dimension: A 2013 study conducted by researchers at London Metropolitan University found that the optimum tempo for songs played in the car is between 60 and 80 beats per minute - approximately the same bpm as the average human heartbeat. With the help of the right song, those landscapes on the other side of the windshield can resemble the interiors of the mind. Music turns driving into a kind of meditation, transforming a simple sojourn into an epic voyage with its own tone-setting soundtrack. But while podcasts are fine for when you want to be distracted from the road, music complements the vast expanses of city freeways and interstate highways like nothing else. But if you want to get the most out of recorded music, it helps to have access to wide-open spaces and lots and lots of road.īut what about podcasts? Improved technology for listening in the car is a factor in nearly twice as many Americans having checked out the format in 2015 versus 2008. If you are interested in live music, you pretty much have to live in or near a big city. I’d be exaggerating if I said that I’m still in the Midwest for this reason, but not that much.
Like Drake - this is the only instance in which I will compare myself to Drake - I value few things more than “that ride.” I’ve often wondered how people who live in urban areas where owning a car isn’t feasible can truly enjoy listening to music without access to a large metallic box outfitted with wheels and a surround stereo system. Sitting behind the wheel and still feeling powerless over the direction of your life is sort of the ultimate Drakeian metaphor. When I’m zoned out behind the wheel with Drake’s voice coming out of the dashboard, like a GPS locating my personal moodiness, I find myself doing an inventory of my own triumphs and failures. On this year’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake counts his enemies and obsesses over the future - these are issues that only long drives can resolve. The emphasis on atmosphere over overt aggression welcomes sedentary introspection. His music moves with a slow, self-contained creep, like rush-hour traffic. The pervasive myopia of the lyrics and the downcast beats of frequent collaborator Noah “40” Shebib make Drake songs ideal for driving music. This would’ve been apparent even if Drake hadn’t pointed it out. At this point he makes songs for pretty much everybody, but especially cabbies and truckers. This isn’t the first time Drake has talked about this: In a 2013 interview with former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi, 1 Drake said that he makes “music for the purpose of driving at nighttime.” Car listening is clearly an important (and underrated) aspect of how Drake’s music is conceived and conceptualized. Driving was just one of the most pivotal things in my writing life.” “And before that ride, it wasn’t going to the studio, it was going to my girl’s house, or going wherever. “That ride was my favorite thing in the world, you know?” he told the magazine. And this hasn’t only cramped his style, it has also affected him creatively.
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Now that he has drivers and security guards and other assorted hangers-on, Drake is no longer free to traverse the open road on his own. Can you imagine? If Drake weren’t Canadian, it would seem un-American. “I’ve been deprived of driving for a long time,” Drake told The Fader last month.