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What the hell? There is absolutely nothing wrong with being moved emotionally by music. I don't regularly cry from listening to songs (or regularly cry at all, for that matter, but I have been, in the past, moved to tears by certain songs) I'm actually thankful that I have the ability to feel such emotions
from music, to be able to experience the music as the artist intended. What is the point of creating or listening to music at all if you maintain a perfectly flat emotional response all the way through? There would be none. A man should not supress his emotional response to such things because of pressures to "be manly". He feels just like everyone else; he feels because he is human. What if people like Beethoven and Mozart had supressed their emotional responses? Hell, this doesn't just apply to music, but to all art.
That being said, I'm not scared by horror movies, bees, or roller coasters. In fact, I love roller coasters. I must admit though, I was scared shitless while playing Silent Hill 3. But I didn't cry.
How ya doing, buddy?