What Makes Music Powerful?

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Music makes us human (Frith, 2007), it has proven power to evoke emotions and shape the way people behave towards certain situations or objects. This no longer need scientific study and can be proven to one’s self, everyone experiences the power of music. The minute we are born we are in rhythm, it has been a major part of every culture present in the world. One can say that our soul is inclined and can be touched at any given moment by music. We are never ‘musicless’ because music is universal.
In recent years, there has been an uncanny increase in the use of music. Whether it is used to fire someone up before a big game or to inspire people to act and make change, music has always played a big yet unbeknownst part of an experience. In the …show more content…

Music has that type of power, this is why marketers and promoters use music in such ways. It is the most effective tool for remembering. Some even used to say that when you want to memorize a line, poem or story, you sing.
There are limited studies on how effective music is as an advertising tool. This is why the researchers came up with this study, to test whether music plays a vital role on the branding and familiarity of the shampoo products.
The objective of this study is to show the role that music plays in shampoo advertisements. Also, although the concept of music being used in branding is very widespread it is underappreciated and with help of this study, the researchers also aims to increase the awareness of many people to the concept of using music in advertisements. In addition to the previous objectives, the research also aims to provide insight on the perception of consumers of the music usually used by shampoo advertisements.
The study is only limited to identifying what role music plays in achieving brand familiarity with certain and not all shampoo products and not discuss the overall use of music as an advertising

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