Ever since Drake dropped perhaps the most memorable video of 2015 people have been studying it to no end and are trying to figure out why it was such a topic of discussion.
Instead of making a meme or mashup with another song, NPR recently presented their own study of the video and why the “Hotline Bling” visual was so popular among people. They asked numerous people about how our brain and body work when it comes to perceiving music, especially visually.
“Listening to music doesn’t just activate the auditory regions of the brain,” says David Poeppel, an NYU psychology professor. “Rhythmic input also automatically activates your motor cortex too. Call it ‘predancing.'”
“Our brains can lay down beats anywhere on a continuously moving visual stimulus,” Dr. Devin McAuley of Michigan State concludes, referring to the mashups people created from Drake dancing in the “Hotline Bling” video. The study also says humans look to for a way to assign music to movement and also, of course, that music inflicts emotional responses that are a lot more personal and harder to study with consistency.
Read the full piece about why Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video was so popular here.
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They really studied this nigga’s video?. Drake’s corny ass was just doing lame dances throughout the video.. Not sure why doctors and psychologists needed to give their two cents on it..
I just don’t get it, I guess that part of my brain is turned off. I didn’t like the song or video
Drake is BY FAR the most dick rode rapper of all time.
Wowsers you are so fucking delusional it’s pathetic .. 6 God is at the top in this rap game !! Nobody in his lane and nobody will ever be ! Go listen to weak mill who 6 God bodied ….
LMFAO if your over the age of 18 PLEASE kill yourself. Dick Sucking ass nigga. Nigga spend 24 hours sucking dick for free online like a porn star.
Drake dominates the game. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game. When hip-hop was on life support, Drizzy came through and revolutionized the genre.
drake has brought more utter fakeness and unoriginality to hip hop than anyone ever in the past , bitch don’t write his own material, steals lyrics and beats from others, there has never been anyone in the last 20yrs that has made more of a mockery of hip hop than fake drake. he’s a bitch made pop princess who ducks and hides from challenges from REAL MC’S who would bury his pop singing career. I have never seen anyone in the last 25yrs who is as hated as much as fake drake, I love the fact hotline bullshit is not nominated at the grammy’s….thanks birdman! lololol #drakeisfakedrakeiswack
it is the stupidity and idiotity of the video that makes people shake their heads in disbelief at how this fucking fake bitch made pop singer could make himself look more like a clown than before. #drakeisfakedrakeiswack
QUIET HIPHOP QUIET BLACK PEOPLE . DECREASE PUSH T , JADA . ROSS ECT SALES . LIE AND INCREASE LOGIC , G EASY , MAC MILLER ECT … WHITE ARTIST . WAKE UP . # FACTS
Rap music is trash. Fuck Drake and fuck every black person.
Smh? Racism is taught. Do me a favor, when you get home this evening, slap your parents . . . HARD
Lol this nigga made a video dancing like nobody watching and this results. I knock that there.
No disrespect to Drake but I cannot (for the life of me) understand the hype behind this record and a majority of his other records? No classic albums whatsoever. A few hit records (i.e. “0 to 100”) but that’s about it. Are we that desperate to cling onto this generation’s “IT” guy that we’ve just given up all together and selected Drake for the draft or what? He doesn’t sing. He harmonizes, horribly. I just don’t get it and probably never will? To each their own
A few hit records?! Sooo…Take Care, Started From the Bottom, Find Your Love, Best I Ever Had, Headlines, Hold On We’re Going Home, Energy, Over and Back 2 Back, were not hit records? Fuck outta here. I didn’t even name all the songs that he’s featured on that he turned into hits like On One.
He has more than few, I get it. But as far as classic albums are concerned? No way Jose! None of them. I have no qualms with Drake’s music. I just don’t understand the hypebeast behind it? Same formula over and over. Be honest with yourself, grown men don’t rock with Drake like that! Trust me. Women rock with Drake. Women buy his albums. He makes music for W O M E N ! Can we at least agree on that “OVO B-boy”? Probably not being that your screen name has “OVO” in it but like I said before, to each their own! Keep crusading for him. Maybe one day you’ll be rewarded with a pink velour OVO tracksuit compliments of the man himself
Lol salute for what u said no dudes rocking with drake but wen u got women buying ur album who could stop u hes basically this generations ja rule meek mill was sopossed to be 50 cent but wasnt strong enough or hungry enough to shut em down so now we stuck with drizzy music until he rubs kendrick lamar the wrong way then we will c what hapens
You ain’t lyin’
Or Push? Heard his boy took a stab at Pusha on IG the other day. They don’t want it with Pusha T. Lyrically? Nah. Drake would catch a body faster than Usain Bolt in the 100 meter. And that “King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude” album goes btw
Winston Wolfe is real
Interesting how everyone here hates it. Yet when Drake plays at a club, these same niggas are gonna be dancing with their girl to his music hoping to land some pussy.
Interesting how wrong you are, Drake stan.
Fuc outa here with that hate shit,yall niggas who be talking shit bout Drake are the real dick riders,crab ass niggas who rather listen to young thug, tryna act tough bt when shit hits the fan u the first ones to shit in ur pants,if dont like the nigga simply stay away frm his music,shut the fuc up and listen to old DMX u bitch ass old timers,its 2015 mafuckers #Drake Is Real#Drake Is dope#
old niggas bitch slapping young niggas, diddy slapped the shit outta drake and pusha t gonna finish him and bury him lyrically. #drakeisfakedrakeiswack
All Drake does is cry about thots in his music. He’s a simp. Fuck Drake. That talentless, filthy, corny Canadian Jew. I want to punch Drake in the face. Drake is corny bitch and he’s a waste of life.
drake would knock your bitch ass out tho
gtfo, annoying pissy internet person, you should kill yourself
Drake is a corny white boy who needs to get shot by a gun.
That’s really bad to say Drake is awesome and people have their own opinions,Drake is awesome but keep that crap to yourself
These haters are insane. Its funny how y’all sit here and write these comments full of hatred towards this man. Meanwhile this dude is winning awards, getting money you dream of, fucking bitches you want. You all just some jealous lowlife kids. Shut down the computer, get out and get a fresh breath of air. This is coming from a guy who AINT a Drake fan. Some of y’all comments are just F up
*deep sigh* I wasn’t “hating” on Drake. Y’all catch feelings to much. I don’t like the record. That ain’t hating or jealousy. I just don’t like the record. I could care less how much a man makes? That ain’t my business. Because somebody’s rich I’m supposed lay down for them? Nah. “If I don’t like it I don’t like it. That ain’t hating.” – Common
On the other hand, he has a GIANT asterisk by his name after that QM stunt. Be honest with yourself.
Fuckin bitches I want? Says who? Dude acts hella gay like “im trapped in closet” gay! People just think cause this dude is popular that hes hella cool. No one is an individual anymore. People dont like thungs cause they actually like then they just like what other people say they like and they just want to be popular and fit in with society. Shits sad a bunch of lemmings following around some fake ass Canadian wanna be rapper. If it wasnt for Lil Wayne co-signing him when he was at the peak of his career no one would even know who this fraud ass bitch named Aubrey is except for people who watch the public access channel in Canada. You people made Drake popular and now you just have to hop on the bandwagon with everyone else cause having your own thoughts are just way to hard I guess
Spoken like a true Dick Sucker.
It’s a sad time for the musical arts