Surprise | noun | sur·prise | \ sər-ˈprīz, sə-\
variants: or less commonly surprize

    1. an attack made without warning
    2. a taking unawares
  1. something that surprises
  2. the feeling caused by something unexpected or unusual

Surprise is a brief mental and physiological state, a startle response experienced by animals and humans as the result of an unexpected event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral/moderate, pleasant, unpleasant, positive, or negative. Surprise can occur in varying levels of intensity ranging from very-surprised, which may induce the fight-or-flight response, or little-surprise that elicits a less intense response to the stimuli.

03-29-18 Wildcat by Ratatat

03-29-18 Wildcat by Ratatat

03-29-19 Not gonna lie, Surprise is challenging to capture in a song. Going into this week, I felt like the only proper way of honoring the emotion is to honestly do the best I can in letting the song…surprise me. Ratatat’s Wildcat was probably one of the first...

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