• Liking, recognizing, or remembering new information and patterns is harder for the brain, and listening to new music is no exception.
• Our brains resist the unfamiliarity of life, as change is always feared, with the uncertain and the new being relatively less attractive than the old and familiar.
• Old music (stuff we have listened to in the past) is therefore soothing, comfortable and familiar.

People can get angry, even riotous when they are presented with something they don’t know or recognize.

Much before the phrase ‘confirmation bias’ became mainstream, most of us have been practising it in the things we like, be it clothing brands, beauty ideas or music. We ...