Music In The Goldilocks Zone

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/02/24/147286740/adele-in-the-goldilocks-zone?sc=fb&cc=fp

February 24, 2012
by Alva Noë
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Music is a lot like clothing. We like our jeans pre-worn. When it comes to music, we like the familiar unfamiliar. That is, we like things we've never heard before that sound like things we have heard before. If the music is too familiar, it's dull. But if it is genuinely new, if it really is novel, then it is obnoxious.


We are attracted to music in the Goldilocks Zone, as it has been called.

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