Why music moves you

The power of tunes to transport us is universal

Find yourself drawn to the punchy rhythms of The Clash’s

Rock the Casbah when needing a pick-me-up or motivation? Or bopping with joy to Ed Sheeran’s

Shape of You? Then it’s likely someone on the other side of the world is feeling the same pull. A new US study has found we experience the same emotions universally when we listen to music – from amusement to joy, to motivation and eroticism. Below are other universal feel-good tunes, categorised by mood: