It's interesting to me how sounds can be heard and evoke a feeling of a texture or mood. Music can even evoke color and visual representation in the mind's eye immediately, regardless of lyrical content. Making songs like this, regardless of genre, takes special talent by producers and artists. These are some songs that do just that and a short summary of the particular physical sensations they evoke a connection to.

1. "Ode to Viceroy" / Mac Demarco

Listening to this song feels like driving down an abandoned street at dawn, or exhaustedly making an early morning commute. The sound is nostalgic and lagging, yet pleasant. It imparts to the listener a feeling of exhaustion with a routine, and yet a pleasure in the comfort of consistency. The sound is lonely and melancholy, but not overtly sad, much like moments in the early mornings and alone time of life. It is furthermore remarkable that all these feelings are able to be evoked by a ballad written to a brand of cigarettes.

2. "Maria, I'm Drunk" / Travis Scott ft. Young Thug & Justin Bieber

This song sounds like the feelings brought about as a party winds down. It is tired and somber, yet continually halfheartedly attempting to keep upbeat. All vocals in the song are either slow or slurred, along with a repetitively oscillating, yet suspenseful, beat. Aspects are slowed and slightly set off key, and in conjunction with the continual "woos" and "skrts" of Young Thug, it evokes an attempt to be impervious to one's loneliness and a half-hearted affliction of personal hedonism, with simultaneous embracement of it.

3."I Went To The Store One Day" / Father John Misty

Unlike the prior two, the lyrics of this song contribute much to the feelings it provokes. New ways to impart through language, not only the pleasures, but the much unacknowledged anxieties of love are explored. The melody is simple, and clean, and rolling. It sounds serious and pensive, yet not quite depressed. It sounds like saying goodbye to someone you love because you know you have to. It is reminiscent of a song that would play in a Disney film, yet the lyrics impart a love that is much different than that of fairytale, even when ideal.

4. "The Percocet & Stripper Joint" / Future

Despite it's lack of eloquent lyrics, this song evokes a tangible sensory experience. Its sound is smooth and soft, yet in conjunction with Future's trickling and liquid-like edited voice and rolling bass, it is not boring or sleepy. It sounds like wealth itself. The song sounds like the way velvet feels when you run your hand across it. It sounds the way expensive clothing feels to the touch, and the way an overtly rich food is to taste.

5. "Broccoli" / D.R.A.M. ft. Lil Yachty

This song is extremely pointless, and that is exactly the point itself. The lyrics analyze nothing of value and everything about the melody is nonconventional and the opposite of serious. It evokes images of a summer day with people you love somewhere that you could not be happier to be. It sounds like joy in nothing extraordinary and like happiness with whatever is around you. The song is so popular because the feelings it evokes are so pleasant. Adversely, the song becomes annoying after too many listens because it reminds us that we are not always supposed to be as carefree as Broccoli tells us to be.