Surprise is a decoupled feeling from enjoyment I think. Having a good surprise in music is great because you think "wow, I can't believe that was so good" but t

Surprise is a decoupled feeling from enjoyment I think. Having a good surprise in music is great because you think "wow, I can't believe that was so good" but then you can enjoy it 100 more times over the next 5 years. I can like a song a lot the first time I hear it and often times that is the basis on whether or not I'll listen to it again or semi-routinely. I really do think "likeness" plays a major role in the frission itself. I listened to a couple of tracks in the article's list multiple times since my original reply and felt nothing. I can appreciate the workmanship that went into creating it but it didn't spark anything and I'll likely never be inclined to listen to them again. Music is an extremely complex subject, there's so many variables that go into filtering what you like and dislike. There's also a huge amount of things that go into bucketing a track into "this is basically torture" to "I'm embarrassed to listen to this alone" to "acceptable background noise" to "I would be upset if I could never listen to this again".