We always seem to like the bass and beat of music more than melody, why is that?
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maybe its because we are more adversely sensitive to rhythmic beats than melody, and how footsteps could’ve been perceived by our ancestors, alertness is key in a hunter-gatherer world
a repetitive beating in the back of our heads could inform us that a predator is coming, although we have come far from our primitive aspects
in the modern world I think it is more of a recessive aspect that just evolved into being alert and satisfied with music
Most modern/western music is near 120bpm, close to the average human heartbeat. It doesn’t necessarily shape preferences, but it’s those parts of music that even unreasonably white people can just kind of *feel.*
Here’s an [article](https://medium.com/@Spotify/groove-is-in-the-heart-matching-beats-per-minute-to-heart-rate-271a79b7f96a) that can say it better than I can.
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The human brain is hard-wired to look for repetition and patterns for survival (example: you find a pear, and eat it. In a few months, you come across some more pears, and your brain goes “oh! I know this one, its edible!”).
We like music due to the repetitions in lyrics and the BPM. The same reason is also how you can grow to get bored of a song after really enjoying listening to it over and over. Your brain is excited while guessing and learning the song completely, but once it finally maps out the song entirely, that’s when you start to get bored of it. Because your brain has learned all it can, so the “new” song has just turned into “oh, yeah we know that one, its like the rest now”.
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