Open-earedness refers to an individual’s desire and ability to listen and consider different sounds and musical styling. Research has shown that adolescents exhibit higher levels of open-earedness, with a greater willingness to explore and appreciate diverse musical genres. During these years of sonic exploration, music gets wrapped up in the emotion and identity formation of youth; as a result, the songs of our childhood prove wildly influential over our lifelong music tastes.
It stagnates when you rely on Spotify algorithms to find music.
I honestly couldn’t disagree more. Spotify’s exposed me to a huge wealth of artists I never would have run into otherwise. I’ll hear one song somewhere, pop it on Spotify, and end up getting into whole new genres. Some of what have become my favorite musicians I probably never would have heard without it.
It does suck that they’re not better to the artists who make them all their money, but I can’t really complain about the algorithm.
I guess it would depend on the person.
Same, it’s great
I find the Spotify algorithms work pretty well if I’m frequently feeding new music into it. But yeah, otherwise it can get stale pretty quickly.