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So today I learned there is a word


that describes the otherwise indescribable sensation that you get from certain musical passages.

"Frisson"

Frisson, also known as aesthetic chills or musical chills, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding auditory and/or visual stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with piloerection and mydriasis.

Leave it to the French to come up with a single word that covers all of that stuff. 🇫🇷

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no , 'grease' is the word

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It's got groove, it's got meaning

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Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion.

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Grease is the way we are feeling?

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