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Adderall + music perception -- heavy beats

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DarthNova

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Hey guys, I'm new here.

So I've been on amphetamine for ADD for about a year now, and Adderall specifically for about 8 months.

I've always been interested in older music (like classic rock, 80s/90s alt.rock/pop) for most of my life (I'm 21) -- but since starting amphetamine my entire music preferences have shifted.

I still appreciate and like the old stuff but oh my god I'm now a fiend for hard club music, pop (beats), dubstep, electro, trance, house, hip-hop (especially fast paced), and rap. I am unhappy if the song doesn't have good bass in it and I love feeling the vibrations on a strong subwoofer or on my headphones (I bought the monster beats for this). I never used to really care much for this music until I was on amphetamines and now it's really my M.O.

I am prescribed 20mg of XR and that's all that I take. I notice that when I'm having a bit of a speed buzz (only happens on some days now) and I put on club-style music I feel amazing and it just really compliments the high and revs my brain up.

I was wondering if anyone else felt this way too or even had a total shift/change in music taste after taking certain drugs. I know that ecstasy is in the amphetamine family and tends to enhance party music at clubs and makes you want to dance so I guess this "phenomenon" isn't too far fetched.

Thanks!
 
There is a lot of research on personality and music preferences and more extroverted types tend to prefer the heavy bass of dance and hip hop music (as well as lots of other genres) and many say that amphetamines make them more extroverted so perhaps there is some kind of correlation here.

Either way, this isn't appropriate for OD so I'll send it over to the drug culture forum to try it there.

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Cane2theLeft said:
There is a lot of research on personality and music preferences and more extroverted types tend to prefer the heavy bass of dance and hip hop music (as well as lots of other genres) and many say that amphetamines make them more extroverted so perhaps there is some kind of correlation here.

Either way, this isn't appropriate for OD so I'll send it over to the drug culture forum to try it there.

To understand what does or does not belong in OD, check out the guidelines and standards links in my signature or drop me a PM. Welcome to BL!


--->DC
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Oh my B on the misplacement of the thread!

Thanks for sorting that out as well as giving me some feedback on that extroversion stuff. It's funny because I'm actually a bit more introverted by nature but when I take Adderall it makes me extroverted and much more sociable in general -- and I guess like you said this music perception could be a manifestation of that.
 
I've noticed this with myself and my friends as well when use coke - normally I prefer softer and more complex music but when I'm on coke I get into the dubstep and other bass heavy music my friends enjoy.
 
Sober I am all about radiohead, Nirvana, a perfect circle, etc. On adderall I'm all about justice, pendulum, daft punk, etc. Heh. Other music just sounds so... slow. I dunno.
 
I feel that

I've played drums for 9 years at the time (two years ago) and the night I first experimented with adderall was the first time I really ever tried using polyrhythms to make heavy, flowing, Toolesque beats. I stayed up all night playing the heaviest, sludgiest grooves.

So yeah, I definitely agree that adderall makes me want heavier beats.
 
Electronic music (mainly techno, trance, hardstyle, the stuff with a constant 120-160 BPM bassdrum) sounds amazing while on amphetamines. I think Cane has a good point, it's more upbeat, and social music, I would even go so far as to say its more "sexual" music.. and amphetamines make people more upbeat and social..and..for the most part, more sexual.

Plus other music does sound "slower" for whatever reason. I don't notice that much of a time-perception difference while on amphetamines except for music. That and my Internet connection seems a tad bit slower when I'm speeding...
 
mgmt&mdma said:
monster beats are THE SHIT<3 (the good kind =D)
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Agreed 100%.

I have the Beats Studio (the full over-ear ones) and I honestly think I'm damaging my hearing cranking the volume up on them so high jamming to sick electronic/club tracks all the time haha.

So hard to explain the feeling but when I'm speedy gonzalez on the addy's I just gotta jam with loud booming bass and plenty of big beat-drops.

d[-_-]b :)
 
ive got the lil black ones, like in GaGa's bad romance video.

BTW i have a blue 10mg adderall pill, and its supposed to be one of those "after the storm" super nice, cold, windy, partly cloudy days tomorrow (hard to explain but you know what i mean)

do you guys think that pill would make it THAT much nicer? or should i save it for like a day i have alot of hw or something lol. i never take adderall so idk how it works/will affect me
 
Me too, 10mg is going to make you super excited about doing your homework, you'll blow through it, do next week's homework, post 20 times on bluelight, and read 16 wikipedia articles, then listen to heavy beats.

Amphetamines, helping you get way too many things done since 1919.
 
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