CONCISE SUMMARY: Research shows that musical preferences are correlated with personality traits and these connections exist across cultures and continents. A 2022 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people worldwide have similar music tastes based on their personalities, such as introverts enjoying mellow music genres while extroverts preferring unpretentious tunes. The study analyzed data from nearly 350,000 individuals across 53 countries and used the MUSIC framework to categorize musical genres into five types: mellow, unpretentious, sophisticated, intense, and contemporary.
“Contemporary” is painfully vague. Also, the five categories described seem very contrived, as if they exist only to create the MUSIC acronym.
Good scope of study though.
Who would categorize any music as “unpretentious”?
