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Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your spine? Or goosebumps tickle your arms and shoulders?

The experience is called frisson (pronounced free-sawn), a French term meaning “aesthetic chills,” and it feels like waves of pleasure running all over your skin. Some researchers have even dubbed it a “skin orgasm.”

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Results from the personality test showed that the listeners who experienced frisson also scored high for a personality trait called Openness to Experience.

Studies have shown that people who possess this trait have unusually active imaginations, appreciate beauty and nature, seek out new experiences, often reflect deeply on their feelings, and love variety in life.

Some aspects of this trait are inherently emotional (loving variety, appreciating beauty), and others are cognitive (imagination, intellectual curiosity).

I think there are a lot of people here who are very open to experience.

I’ve been listening to Prince almost non-stop since his passing and one of the things I’ve noticed is how many times I’ve physically reacted to the music.

I’d be listening to a song and my ears would burn or my hands would tingle (whenever I feel great emotion, I start feeling it in my hands) or the hair on the back of my neck would stand up.

A lot of people on r/frisson mention Prince’s Radiohead “Creep” cover, the 2007 Superbowl performance and his solo on “My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as frisson inducing performances. I think we can name a lot more.

One Prince song that does it for me is “Adore.” Another is “The Beautiful Ones.” Which ones do it for you?

Which Prince songs, performances, albums induce frisson in you?

I'm listing songs that I had that reaction to the first time I heard them:

Moonbeam Levels

All My Dreams

Baby I'm A Star

Mountains

Let's Go Crazy

DMSR

Housequake

It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

Peach

To name a few.


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I'll have to give the matter some thought but not until after I digest this new word I just learned and weave it into my vocabulary.

That's funny. That's what my vanity license plate is.

Very interesting. I've never heard the term, but I've definitely experienced that.

Computer Blue - More specifically his guitar solo/Father's Song

I Would Die 4 U

Noon Rendezvous

Joy in Repetition - especially the ONA version

The Question of U

Alexa de Paris

All I can think of at the moment. I also agree with While my Guitar gently weeps.

"Frisson" is a french word meaning "a shiver".

I experience it frequently whilst listening to Prince. But what triggers it the most is whenever a Prince song comes unexpectedly on the radio. The same also used to happen whenever Prince was starting to play impromtu songs in concert, like the time he played "Thank You for talking to Me Africa".

Recently it has been the live version of Empty Room in Zurich - that guitar solo really gives me frissons everytime...

Thanks for bringing this up - it's something I've noticed too particularly with some of his live performances. For me Empty Room at Montreux 2009 when he goes into the guitar solo you can see he's "in the zone" (transcendence/connecting with source) and that's when I get chills. Maybe that has something to do with it?

leslievette said:

Very interesting. I've never heard the term, but I've definitely experienced that.




Computer Blue - More specifically his guitar solo/Father's Song

I Would Die 4 U

Noon Rendezvous

Joy in Repetition - especially the ONA version

The Question of U

Alexa de Paris




All I can think of at the moment. I also agree with While my Guitar gently weeps.

Definitely those 3 for me as well.

It's not pronounced "free-sawn" in French, the last syllable is like the first of syllable of "onboard", but without any hint of a w or a n.

Just say chills it's easier.

The Beautiful Ones

My Guitar Gently Weeps (rock & roll hall of fame)

The Cross ( Lovesexy tour Dortmund)

The Love We Make

Gold (guitar solo)

Sweet Baby

Strollin'

The Question of U

I Wish U Heaven

Adore

Sometimes It Snows in April

Venus De Milo

Alexa De Paris

Condition of The Heart

I Would Die 4 U

Purple Rain

It's Gonna Be Lonely

My Love is Forever

Another Lonely Christmas

I get that everytime I watch Prince perform "The Beautiful Ones" in the movie Purple Rain.

Aerogram said:

It's not pronounced "free-sawn" in French, the last syllable is like the first of syllable of "onboard", but without any hint of a w or a n.

Just say chills it's easier.

So it's pronounced Frison?

The first time I heard him play The Beautiful Ones and Something in the Water live.

214 said:

Aerogram said:

It's not pronounced "free-sawn" in French, the last syllable is like the first of syllable of "onboard", but without any hint of a w or a n.

Just say chills it's easier.

So it's pronounced Frison?

More like Free-song (with a French accent).

Just say chills, it's easier.

CherryMoon57 said:

214 said:

So it's pronounced Frison?

More like Free-song (with a French accent).

Just say chills, it's easier.

Nah, i'm starting to get into french so it helps

Purple Rain, 7, and The Ladder

herb4 said:

dodger said:

herb4 said:

I'll have to give the matter some thought but not until after I digest this new word I just learned and weave it into my vocabulary.

Can't Stop This Frisson I Got

When you say "frisson" and the definition you gave (OP)...I understand it as not a "sexual" thing, but more a "visceral" response correct? If so,

Alot of greats have already been mentioned...and....


Album: Dirty Mind
17 Days

Something In the Water - piano demo...tingles
Noon Rendezvous...birthday 84
Crystal Ball

Shhh...Hong Kong 2003

She's always In my Hair...3rd eye girl Montreux 2014

Little Red Corvette...Montreux 18/07/2009

I love U but I don't trust U anymore 2009

The Dance

Strange relationship

If I was your Girlfriend

When Doves Cry 12"...everytime by the end, I'm yelling along - 30yrs later!

Mutiny...Cobo 86

Annastesia...Livesexy 88

Old Friends 4 Sale....original unreleased 86

&

Still can't listen to "Sometimes"...too emotional and shivers even before he passed...now nah, not ready for that one...

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CherryMoon57 said:

Recently it has been the live version of Empty Room in Zurich - that guitar solo really gives me frissons everytime...

I get it every time from Empty Room in Montreux. Swiss empty rooms must be very chilly.

Oh...and

Reflection...with Wendy on Tavis
Gotta Broken Heart again...is the absolute song on DM (but the whole album is just...)

Lady Cab Driver...I can't resist being drawn into the bitterness of the end of the tune

Last December...so melancholy

4 The Tears in Your Eyes

I get this lot. Just recently at a live show on Sunday

Here are a few from the top of my head

Anna Stesia Milano

Joy in Repetition ONA

The Question of U Nude Tour

Colonized Mind Umbria Jazz

Lady Cab Driver

Revelation 11 minute

Empty Room Montreux

The last guitar licks of PR

Connected said:

Oh...and

Reflection...with Wendy on Tavis
Gotta Broken Heart again...is the absolute song on DM (but the whole album is just...)

Lady Cab Driver...I can't resist being drawn into the bitterness of the end of the tune

Last December...so melancholy

4 The Tears in Your Eyes

I forgot them

jayseajay said:

CherryMoon57 said:

Recently it has been the live version of Empty Room in Zurich - that guitar solo really gives me frissons everytime...

I get it every time from Empty Room in Montreux. Swiss empty rooms must be very chilly.

I guess it's near the Alps.

Guitarhero said:

The Beautiful Ones

My Guitar Gently Weeps (rock & roll hall of fame)

The Cross ( Lovesexy tour Dortmund)

The Love We Make

Gold (guitar solo)

Sweet Baby

Strollin'

The Question of U

I Wish U Heaven

Adore

Sometimes It Snows in April

Venus De Milo

Alexa De Paris

Condition of The Heart

I Would Die 4 U

Purple Rain

It's Gonna Be Lonely

My Love is Forever

Another Lonely Christmas

Loving Strollin - very underrated (as is the mental Girl)

Condition of the Heart...again Livesxy 88

Purple Rain...I'm just so into the Nudity rehearsal version at the moment...it is abridged...but has some different melodic licks which make it a bit unusual...and because he doesn't sing much, when he does the "woo-hoo" chant....beautiful...simply beautiful

dodger said:

herb4 said:

I'll have to give the matter some thought but not until after I digest this new word I just learned and weave it into my vocabulary.

Can't Stop This Frisson I Got

There's Joy in Repi-frission.

?

I dunno. I got nothing joke wise.

On point though and to the topic, I've been experiencing some Frisson of late. Wandering around the YouTube explosions that happened after he died. ON that bent, a few tracks always grab me/make me shake and tremble:

Joy in Repetition from the "It Aint Over" CD
The Super Bowl show

While My Guitar Gently Weeps for sure

Electric Chair on SNL
Da Bang, What's My Name and Calhoun Square back to back to back on Crystal Ball disc 2 always excites me. That's what I busted out the day he died.

To this day I'm pissed I never got to hear him play "Calhoun Square". I was an NPGMC member for the ONA tour and I was waiting in line on my friend who was running late. When he finally showed, I could hear Prince doing this number during sound check, but by the time we got in he was done. The price we pay for friendship, right?

...

But really it's been the back/closing end of AOA that just fucking kills me. "Way Back Home" and the "Affirmation" tracks hit me even then and hit me even harder now. Does gooseflesh count as Frisson because it's more like a body chill than the shakes that I experience? A bit like an electrical current.

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I got Frisson when Joni came on at the Wreckastow, u know

herb4 said:

dodger said:

herb4 said: Can't Stop This Frisson I Got

There's Joy in Repi-frission.

?

I dunno. I got nothing joke wise.

On point though and to the topic, I've been experiencing some Frisson of late. Wandering around the YouTube explosions that happened after he died. ON that bent, a few tracks always grab me/make me shake and tremble:

Joy in Repetition from the "It Aint Over" CD
The Super Bowl show

While My Guitar Gently Weeps for sure

Electric Chair on SNL
Da Bang, What's My Name and Calhoun Square back to back to back on Crystal Ball disc 2 always excites me. That's what I busted out the day he died.

To this day I'm pissed I never got to hear him play "Calhoun Square". I was an NPGMC member for the ONA tour and I was waiting in line on my friend who was running late. When he finally showed, I could hear Prince doing this number during sound check, but by the time we got in he was done. The price we pay for friendship, right?

...

But really it's been the back/closing end of AOA that just fucking kills me. "Way Back Home" and the "Affirmation" tracks hit me even then and hit me even harder now. Does gooseflesh count as Frisson because it's more like a body chill than the shakes that I experience? A bit like an electrical current.

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New Po-frisson
Let's go frisson..in the river, the river of life

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