It’s a retraction of the skin’s piloerector muscles. Goosebumps are so named as they might physically resemble on us the skin of a plucked goose or chicken, and come on the arms, back of the neck, or sometimes the rest of the body, sending involuntary shivers to these nerve endings. Why? Because it could be a symptom of being properly alive, and as far this place is concerned, a sign and evidence of of what, at best, music is all about. Seems as good a question as any to start the year. Do you ever get a piloerection? (said the actress to. We know that every strong sensation, emotion, or excitement-extreme pain, rage, terror, joy, or the passion of love-all have a special tendency to cause the muscles to tremble and the thrill or slight shiver which runs down the backbone and limbs of many persons when they are powerfully affected by music, seems to bear the same relation to the above trembling of the body, as a slight suffusion of tears from the power of music does to weeping from any strong and real emotion.” – Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) Music often produces another peculiar effect. And as several of our strongest emotions-grief, great joy, love, and sympathy-lead to the free secretion of tears, it is not surprising that music should be apt to cause our eyes to become suffused with tears, especially when we are already softened by any of the tenderer feelings. “Music has a wonderful power of recalling in a vague and indefinite manner, those strong emotions which were felt during long-past ages, when, as is probable, our early progenitors courted each other by the aid of vocal tones. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience.

“When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love.

My god, she shook me cold.” – David Bowie, She Shook Me Cold Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again “We met upon a hill, the night was cool and still

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