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Interesting article. Found this as a Google search result for "music listener biases", something I've been interested in for a while.

The part about signaling allegiance to leaders' or groups' norms is very much in line with what I've been considering. I think people "try" to like certain songs or types of music, while not giving others a chance...out of desired identity, wanting to align with a certain group or individual, etc. More often than not, the actual musical content is a very small sliver of what is considered when "deciding" whether to "like" something or not. I think what goes on under the hood is often clannish and sometimes ugly in both fans and musicians, of anything from chamber, to jazz, to pop, to the most obscure underground niche genres. Some relationship to mating rituals, almost always an acute awareness of "who else" is listening to the genre or artist.

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