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A lot, helps with emotional release.
Music is such a lifesaver that I should've found out about earlier. Like... after your parents yell at you, it would help a fucking lot to just let the sounds soothe you, or more like let you release your anger and sadness being being a "burden on your family".
I actually haven't listen much to English "Songs". Like I mostly listen to video game music, sometimes even games I never played.
Like I like FTL music, Multiverse Mod music, Undertale, Deltarune, that one main theme of Detroit: Become Human, Stardew Valley, some random TV show theme songs, the Terminator theme, Anime Openings and Ending songs.
A lot of random classical music. Canon in D on a Piano.
A few random soundtracks from Life is Strange True Colors.
As for "songs" with vocals, my favorite are the 70s/80s/90s era Cantopop (Cantonese Popular Music) songs by 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui) and his band Beyond, especially 海闊天 ("Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies")(it's like in the top 20 of Chinese Music Videos) and 光輝歲月 ("Glorious Years")(song made in honor of Nelson Mandela), but as well as various others like 劉德華 (Andy Lau).
I first got interested because my dad grew up during those eras and I just decided to go googling. But, nowadays, it's kinda conflicting on my emotions tho, since Cantonese reminds me of my parents yelling at me... so I kinda have to suppress my traumatic memories a bit to actually enjoy it. My brain automatically makes the "Cantonese = I'm about to get yelled at" subconscious associations lol. So I guess listening to this is a bit of desensitation therapy kinda of lol. As for Mandarin... it kinda... it kinda always sounds weird to me, even tho I am a native speaker of both Cantonese and Mandarin.
But TLDR: For the most part, I just love listening to Anime songs and Video Game Soundtracks.
Music kinda helps with depression, otherwise I'd just feel so "empty".
I just grab the audiofile with a youtube downloader, and like put it in a folder. Maybe I should go archiving these things, but I've been procrastinating lol.
As for headphones, just some random cheap one under $100 made by those mainsteam manufacturers like Anker. I hate wires cuz it's so annoying when it touches your neck, like sensory issues lol.
Not really an audiophile, and my stuff breaks too often, so I don't wanna ever spend $200 again, just cheap ones will do. ("Boots Theory of Economics" doesn't apply, I broke an expensive one before lol, there was barely any difference in quality, like I can barely tell the difference between a $200 and $100 one.)
Kinda rambled a lot, so idk if I typo'ed anything lol.