Can a Song Change Your Life?

Can't remember where now, but I recently read an interesting article on the topic of whether a song can change your life. The author can down pretty firmly on the 'no' side, arguing that a song is art or entertainment, and, as such, direct existential transformation is outside its capacities. Well, I guess I disagree. Here's one way to look at it. We're changed at least a little bit by everything we encounter, so why not a song? Okay, let's try this again, given that there are lots of people who are so hardened that they actually aren't changed by experience, songs included. How about this then: If you are the kind of person that can be deeply affected by a song, it makes you open to living a different kind of life than someone who isn't. So it might not be the song per se that changes you, but rather your orientation to experience that makes a difference. People who get changed by songs might have a more romantic or mystic orientation. For better or worse I think that it was the anti-authoritarianism in Bob Dylan's work of the 60s that helped sway me against going to law school. I'm not saying whether that's good or bad, just that it happened. That said, how many of you agree that we'd all be better off if instead of mainlining Fox News all day, every day, the Orange One in the White House developed the habit during his "executive time" of rolling up a nice big fatty and trancing out to some vintage Dead tapes. It could even be Phish, I don't care. But it might be good if he learned to get lost in stoned reverie, as opposed to thinking up ways to mess with our heads with a never-ending stream of deranged Tweets.