Do you ever get any emotional attachment to a type of media?

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    (I'm not sure if this belongs here or in C&M, so apologies in advance if this is the wrong place.)

    Title says it all.

    I always feel attached to any type of music or book that it seems I can relate to. Reading a chapter of these books, or listening to one song from some band can really change my mood.
     
    Yup, got it in one! This belongs in C&M, so off it goes! :D

    I feel an attachment to television and film. I think they can move me beyond any other type of media. I enjoy books and music, and a few books have managed to make me grow attached - but nothing affects me as much as a television show or a really good movie. When one of my shows ends, it feels like I'm losing one of my children.
     
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    If I am attached to music, then movies are my conjoined twin. No other type of media affects me as strongly as films do, indeed; the images films contain often touch my heart more often than any other type of media on a regular basis. They're vivid, they're moving, they get into your very being. They make you question, they make me question. So yes, I have an attachment to films. A very strong attachment indeed.
     
    Music.

    Music helps me get through some tough times, I definitely become attached to it. Music can be so relatable for anyone.
     
    I have an very strong bond with music. It's gotten me through the darkest times and made the good times even better. I don't go a day without listening to music unless I absolutely can help it. It's what's kept me from going off the deep end.

    Movies and books don't have the same effect on me.
     
    I tend to get attached to good TV shows and book series. I get far more attached to characters than anything and a long-running series is generally best at giving me that. Even when I've watched or read all of a series I can still go back to any instalment of it and be just as, if not more, affected by it as I was the first time round. Reading or watching things I adore always puts me in a good mood, even if the thing itself is a bit sad.
    Of course, it also depends on what series it is. I'm much less attached to Shannara than I am to Discworld. I'm really attached to Good Omens, even though that's a standalone novel.
    But yeah. Series are usually good for me.

    Oh also music- I get attached to songs I associate with TV shows and good fanvids. And a few things I've heard on the radio that I associate with my dad/grandparents etc.
     
    I can get attached to music and certain songs. But that's about it. I don't care much for tv and movies, unfortunately.
     
    I don't usually feel any attachment while I'm watching a show or reading a book, but when I'm finished I'm often left with this slightly empty feeling. I know that I'll never get to enjoy that book/move/show again like I did the first time, and since I'm not someone who usually rereads/rewatches things there's a fair chance I'll never revisit that story. That's a little sad.

    With music I'll re-listen to songs I like all the time, of course, but I don't get all emotional over them while I listen, just the same slightly sad feeling when I don't have any music to listen to. A kind of withdrawal, I guess.
     
    Music that I really, really like I can often find myself getting very-much attached to. But that's mainly because I go out in search of new music so rarely that when I do find something that perfectly syncs with me, I just want to hold it so close to me and never let it go. The most recent example would be the album w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs. Yes, the album name and band name are ridiculously pretentious, but that's the only fault I can give to an otherwise flawless album. Every time I listen to it, I discover new stuff and become more attached to it - it's even happening as I type this! But music like that is a real rarity for me, so it makes sense that attachments of such a magnitude happen to their rarity.

    With regards to other media, I'd only say that I have an emotional attachment to my very favourite properties: The Simpsons, Arrested Development, Network, Clueless (the film, not the TV series) etc. They're the ones that I've seen more times than I'd like to admit, and have probably had some kind of formative effect on me as a person. And yes, that includes Clueless!
     
    Music. That is all.

    But to elaborate I grew up in music, play an instrument, and my whole close and some extended family has been involved with some type of music or another at some point in their lives. It's the most comfortable way for me to let my emotions go and when I hear a song I know, even if I hate it, I can't help but sing along. It's easy and fun to be immersed in and forget yourself in for a time.

    The same goes for books. I read books incredibly fast (five minutes big Harry Potter chapter fast) so I love going back and rereading and revisiting the worlds I fall into. I guess that's why I plan to become a writer. It's a nice feeling even during the sad parts.

    Movies... somewhat. I can't get as attached with some recent movies because they're so rushed recently. Lord of the Rings... now that was a movie where I felt for everyone despite the three hour long sit downs and everything. I do get an emotional attachment sometimes but it's rarely been that way these days.

    TV... I don't watch much of anything interesting on TV. I mostly watch anime. Too many reality shows for me. I watch cooking ones though... and Game of Thrones. I love that series. (read the books first though hehe :3)
     
    Music, some televisions series and games like Mass Effect.
     
    Books I get attached to in the sense that I can't stop reading them, but the only times I get emotionally attached are with TV/videos/films. Even sometimes music videos can make me become really emotional, for example with Rise Against's "Make It Stop" video where the kids are getting bullied and resort suicide and yeah... And with TV, if an episode or a story line is really emotional or really sad then I have even been known to cry. x] Like the last episode of Friends aw :c It happens a lot in anime too, but that's a different story :3
     
    I would say I'm more attached to music than anything else. I'm going through one of the most stressful and depressing times of m life so far and I can say confidently that music lets me escape and is one of the several things that are saving me from going into a dark depression at the minute...
    I'm sorry if this post is really depressing, it's just I wanted to get the fact across that music's especially important to me at the minute.
     
    Music, no question about it.

    As a musician, it's probably the single most important thing in my life (as well as my family obviously). It's so easy to just get lost in it and forget all of life's troubles. If ever I'm upset or feeling down, an hour or two at the piano or my guitar usually cures me.

    But as far as television and book characters are concerned, not really.
     
    Yes... my music. I'm involved in the metal community and I like how I can talk about band members like their close friends. Or seeing someone wearing a Slayer t-shirt and yell, "SLAAAAAYEEEEEER" then throwing up the horns... and Nergal's forehead, you know, little metal things like that.
     
    Music really. And not to just cheer me up, I'm generally a cheerful person. Its just....I get chill bumps when certain noyes and chords and such are played to gether....like (dont kill the 30STM fanboy) in This Is War, at the end where the guitar rifts change, and the chorus goes into the full chant and all that stuff...its awesome. Like my brain just buzzes and my neck feels cold, ya know? Its kinda hard to explain I guess.

    And then theres just stuff you can enjoy, like Piano Man, or any given Led zeppelin song.

    And I pretty much like all music. Except country music. God, I can't stand it. Also current mainstream, its just annoying.
     
    YES.
    There are times where I'm so completely engaged in a book, movie, TV series or piece of music that I'm left nearly depressed because my real life isn't the same. There are bits in books which make me want to cry. There are songs which I readily identify with. There are TV shows which have taken me on emotional rollercoasters. So yes, I am very emotionally attached to media. A little unhealthily, I must add.
     
    Music, a few books and a couple of Tv shows. I'm attached to iCarly which is ending this November. I become so attached to some of these things I sometime join the big mess they call fandom in some community.
     
    I come back to Bend It Like Beckham, which I think is my go-to flick whenever I feel down. Best feel-good film ever, I tell you, nothing comes close to it.

    As for music, I can list a few albums which I think clicks emotionally for me: Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion, Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues, Kanye West's Late Registration, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and St. Vincent's Actor.

    I've always been emotionally engaged to Community, it has many heartfelt moments. Also, Ludwig Goransson's Greendale Is Where I Belong gives me goosebumps everytime it plays on the show.
     
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