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Call it the Lionel Richie Effect.And don't be surprised if the next time you're blasting "Say You, Say Me" on your iPod, you unexpectedly find yourself making out with a stranger: It turns out romantic music has that effect on people.
OK, maybe not that effect, but in a recent study involving 87 women, 52 percent of those who listened to "romantic" music in a waiting room gave their numbers to Antoine, an "average-looking" guy secretly planted to hit on them during a fake Q&A.
The women thought they were in a study to discuss food products, and that Antoine was just a fellow participant.
In comparison, only 28 percent of women listening to standard old elevator music in the waiting room let Antoine have their digits. (After chatting with him about snacks -- are we sure that wasn't the real turn on here?)
The results of the study show that all kinds of media exposure (not just exposure to aggressive or violent media) can have an effect on people ... and also that somewhere in France, there are a bunch of women sad to learn that Antoine is never actually going to call them.
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Tuesday 22 June
By Richard
Who's this article for? Rapists with a good stereo system? And what about the oil spill in the Gulf? How about we play some Marvin Gaye for those jokesters at BP?
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Tuesday 22 June
By rominakatz
Who says all women are the same and like the same music? I am 42 and prefer to listen to Kiss, Zeppelin, EMINEM, etc. I would not want to listen to music that puts me to sleep.
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Wednesday 23 June
By Patty
Hell Yeah!!!...Give me some Stones!!!...Patty
Wednesday 23 June
By D
rominakatz-Even though I am male, I agree. It seems to be more of an age preference. Someone my age is usally turned on by music of the '70s, '80s and early '90s. KISS, Nugent, Zeppelin, even '80s like Guns -n- Roses, Motley Crue, Poison, etc. Eminem, we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
Mellow music especially by Paul Stanley's operatically and classicaly trained voice is great toward the end of the night. I swear, sometime go onto Youtube and search for "KISS unplugged, Every Time I Look at You," or "I Still Love You." They were one of those bands who always has a ballad or two on an album.
Tuesday 22 June
By MYANGEL
GIVE ME THE OLDIES FRANK SINATRA I LOVE CARLY SIMON TOO.GLEN MILLER. THESE SO CALLED BANDS AND SINGERS NOW ARE AWFUL.THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IS.
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Tuesday 22 June
By Don Mack
I betcha if they subjected these same women to rap-crap or hip-hop, they'd all give him phony numbers or none at all. It has that annoying effect on most normal people.
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Tuesday 22 June
By Al S.
If it was possible for them to hear-(which it's not)- pre-rock ballads and instrumentals would do the trick. ANY kind of rock/rap is simply not softly romantic!
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Tuesday 22 June
By upurs
lol,you know some of these news bites seem to made by people who would be great employees,working for ,media censorship companies,someone like an immigrant who has been spoon fed "the american dream" and has never had any life of their own...well if women came up and started feeling me up and kissing me when this music came on...i might get scared they have a disease and were hard up for sex...and i bet most of them WOULD NOT BE..those hot little petite biches that i like so much...oh well ...AMERICA HAS DIED AND ..."WE THE PEOPLE"..were lucky enough to get rid of mike jackson,but now we're gonna be stuck with lionel lippy...oh please ....gimme some good drugs and alcohol,so i can straigthen out...please...please help me..!
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Tuesday 22 June
By nancy
I dont think music has alot to do with putting you in the mood. My first daughter was conceived while listening to Humble Pie . My second one (6 yrs. later) was conceived in a volkswagen campervan on the beach listening to American pie on the radio.The music didnt have nothing to do with It :-)
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Wednesday 23 June
By Alex
Obviously, Pie turns you on. Or just songs about it.
Tuesday 22 June
By atomic
Women are so weird! LOL!
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Monday 28 June
By ann
Jealous????
Tuesday 22 June
By Zeeman
Music don't matter none as long as the HO's drop their drawers *****************
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Tuesday 22 June
By Rack
I am a very ordinary guy. When I met my second wife at about age 30 we had one extraordinary experience that involved smoking a little pot and listening to an album of Circus Maximus. The actual physical part of that lovemaking session lasted well over an hour. And I mean physical. At this time in life at age 73 I asked her if she would loan me the album to record it. She flatly said she would never part with that album. We have both been remarried for years, but there is still something there. Just something to think about.
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Tuesday 22 June
By cgw
Music doesn't turn women on...people do. When you all get that part straight, you have a better chance of getting anything else.
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Tuesday 22 June
By dcnashinsc
I had a friend years ago that was the serious type. He could nogt get a woman. The problem was he could not relax and unwind, We told him women like men that like to have fun. men that like country hip-hop rap disco and other party music. woem don't want to go out with a boring serious guy. Just like guys don't want to go out with angry women who hate their exes and kids. After he started listening to those kinds of music and understanding and enjoying them he found he could get women and he and they enjoyed their time together. A lot of men and women that blog a lot are tightly wound. I say to you loosen up. Enjoy. Life will be much better. You will be much happier.
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Tuesday 22 June
By me
no, just the ones in this stupid 'study'.
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Tuesday 22 June
By Diane
sometimes it is just a way a man touches a woman that
turns her on ...
there doesn't have to be music in the background but
sometimes love songs are romantic....
sometimes just being with that special someone without music so you
can have such an intensity between two people...
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Tuesday 22 June
By Maradebe
Dude, you haven't yet made love to Peter Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do."?? I was conceived on it.......and I intend to keep the family tradition moving.
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Wednesday 23 June
By Sam
Now I get it! Play this type of music to get girls horny! They'll be screaming "PENIS!"
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