Why You Like the Music You Do

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What albums and songs are getting a lot of play on your Spotify or iTunes app currently? My guest would say that the music you put in heavy rotation comes down to your unique "listener profile." Her name is Susan Rogers, and she's a music producer-turned-neuroscientist as well as the co-author of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You. Today on the show, Susan unpacks the seven dimensions of music and how they show up along a varying spectrum in every song. She explains how everyone has an individualized taste for the configuration of these dimensions, and that how closely a particular song aligns with this pattern of sweet spots accounts for whether you like it or not. Along the way, we discuss artists that exemplify these dimensions, how Frank Sinatra injected virility into his music, how part of your musical taste has to do with the way you prefer to move your body, and much more.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.
0:11.8	What albums and songs are getting a lot of play on your Spotify or iTunes app currently?
0:16.2	My guess would say that the music you put in heavy rotation comes down to your unique
0:20.6	listener profile.
0:22.2	Her name is Susan Rogers and she's a music producer, turn neuroscientist, as well as
0:26.2	the co-author of, This is what it sounds like, what the music you love says about you.
0:31.3	Today in the show, Susan impacts the seven dimensions of music and how they show up along
0:35.2	a varying spectrum in every song.
0:37.5	She explains how everyone has an individualized taste for the configuration of these dimensions
0:42.0	and how closely a particular song aligns with this pattern of sweet spots accounts for
0:46.1	whether you like it or not.
0:47.9	Along the way, we discuss artists that exemplify these dimensions, how Frank Sinatra injected
0:52.4	virility into his music, how part of your musical taste has to do with the way you prefer
0:56.7	to move your body much more.
0:59.3	After the show is over, check out our show notes at a.w.m. . islash music.
1:18.4	All right, Susan Rogers, welcome to the show.
1:21.4	Hi, Brett.
1:22.4	Thanks for having me on.
1:23.4	I'm looking forward to our conversation.
1:24.9	So you're a professor of cognitive neuroscience and you got a new book out called This is
1:29.2	What It Sounds Like and what you do is you take readers through the seven key dimensions
1:34.0	of any song and how the different ways people respawn to those dimensions make up what you
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