“…Additionally, given music's ability to produce strong positive emotions, there is scope to utilize this field of research to potentially produce interventions that aid mood regulation and can induce strong, intense, positive emotions. For instance, descriptions of sublime sorrow, such as transcendence and wonder, overlap with the described experience of listening to drops in electronic dance music (EDM) -a phenomenon in which musical patterns suddenly deviate as the song transitions from the build-up to the drop (Turrell et al, 2019), creating anticipation, tension, and release. This transition from negative tension to positive release is thought to result in amplified positive emotions due to contrastive valence (Huron, 2006), eliciting high arousal and excitement, as well as positive emotions (Turrell et al, 2019).…”