Mozart or Mercury, who made the best background musical music?

It is still unclear what the relationship between digital interference and music is. The search for the perfect music to work with has reached its peak – is it Mozart or Blur? Adam McCulloch is trying to concentrate on the arguments

Our attention spans are waning, and it’s a hot topic at dinner parties. Guests will be distracted by their phones under the table. Conversations can become fragmented as people zone out. And the host may have forgotten to stuff the chicken with goat’s milk and thyme.

With the right background, our focus increases, conversations blossom, phones are ignored, and chickens are stuffed.

Personnel Today was contacted by “experts”, from – you guessed it – Vape Globe. They “scoured Spotify’s most popular playlists for productivity and creativity to find the best tracks” for those who are looking for a productivity boost.

It highlights a new PocketPrep Study that highlights research which found songs between 50 and 80 beats per minutes (BPM) can help you put your brain into a more creative zone.

The author Judy Abel explains that older research that showed that classical masters like Mozart struck the most effective notes for concentration was now usurped with a new study that found that children could concentrate better when Blur music was played.

Interesting. Vape Globe has introduced us to a thoughtful article but then proceeds without nuance. They present us with a Spotify playlist that “your boss would approve of” in their quest to “find the ultimate productivity boosters”.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is at the top of our list. The song’s composer Freddie Mercury may not have had productivity and attention span in mind when he composed the tune. Let’s be honest, this song is not what most people would choose to play as background music.

Vape Globe alerts us as well to , a study that claims our attention span has now fallen below the average goldfish. According to the study from 2015, people are “generally losing concentration after eight second, which highlights the effects of a digitalised lifestyle”. According to reports, Goldfish can hold on for up to nine seconds.

The headline was “You Now Have a Lower Attention Span Than A Goldfish”. Below the headline were the words, “2 Minute Read”. This is a full 30 seconds more than the Personnel Today staff was willing or able to provide.

Judy Abel cleverly ends the debate. She writes, “A 2010 study conducted by Lutz Jancke & Pascale Sandmann concluded that listening to music when studying or learning had no effect. Some studies have found that music negatively impacts learning abilities. Other studies found that music can have a positive impact on learning, but it also has the potential to hinder our ability.

Then, it’s back to square one. I hope you are still reading.

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