How INFPs Experience Music (From Our Experience As INFPs) with Type Tips Leon, Nick, and Paul

[@edwright4892]

That was great! As a fellow INFP, I strongly relate to everyone's thoughts! I can enjoy a wide variety of music genres/artists but will know almost instantly whether I like a song or not, so if I happen to be listening to the radio in the car, I often find I'm a crazy channel hopper. It's Nope! Nope! Nope! Yes! Probably should really stick to Bluetoothing my own music for safety reasons!

[@RonFlux]

Extraverted Sensing - A force to their voice (need a breakthrough/intensity of the moment) Extraverted Feeling - Voice is very well cultivated (considering the feelings of the listener) Introverted Feeling - Really raw voice (to get to the feels)

[@nickmerchant4588]

Thanks to Joyce, Paul, and Leon! It was a really fun discussion.

[@LeonTsao]

So wonderful always to be part of the show and Joyce’s vibrant type community!

[@mattguess9887]

Lyrics don’t matter to me. Give me shoegaze all electronic all day. Also Fi + Si is a powerful combination. When you hear a song you haven’t heard in years and it instantly brings back a flood of memories and emotions and you can’t help but burst out in tears, that’s the power of nostalgia.

[@restlessmosaic]

Nick is one of my favoritest human beings, and he's shaped a lot about my next album (including his own guest vocal). Lovely panel - really happy to hear all these perspectives. Thank you, Joyce!

[@nickmerchant4588]

It’s mutual, friend!

[@More-than-Matter]

I’ve been a big Leon fan for a long time, since I heard his cover of “Here there everywhere” years ago… most beautiful I’ve ever heard. His raw emotion touches me so deep.

[@rexraptor20883]

Yay good to see Paul again! 😄😁

[@scourneene]

I grew up in the eighties and nineties in northern Canada and punk rock, ska "alternative genre" really helped me get through those years. I found the lyrics so insightful and I learned lots about corruption and critical thinking. There was a very positive movement that countered the negative raunchy stereotype in punk rock that was more heart based that I still till this day appreciate its depths. I often toy with the idea of reviewing my records and the various bands online but I'm super non techy and have no idea how to do something like that. I have lots to share about my insights and feelings of music. Maybe I'll get off my ass.

[@FlagrantVagrant]

Oh I could care less about lyrics. While sometimes there are songs and albums and artists where the lyrics have touched me deeply and expressed something I wanted to express. Most of the time, lyrics don't really factor into my experience of music. In fact, they can be distracting when I'm really trying to dedicate a lot more of my mental resources toward experiencing complex texture along with expectation and surprise. And I actually appreciate the hell out of some seriously abstract and cryptic lyric-writing to the point where the lyrics could mean either precisely what you want them to mean or absolutely nothing, and either would be a valid interpretation. But that doesn't change the fact that when I'm listening, I'm not really listening for the meaning of lyrics most of the time. I'm listening for the soundscape, the timbral decisions, the texture from bottom to top of the whole ensemble. I like genre-blending, genre-stretching music. I like groove, but not in that it is tied too much to danceability, becoming predictable and formulaic as a result, but groove that can be broken up, sporadically syncopated, and interjected with sudden musical anomalies. And when it comes to the voice, I'm listening to how they carry their voice, the sounds they create. I actually kind of prefer the lyrics to serve as that which creates an interesting sequence of phonetic sounds, greater than and above the delivery of narrative meaning. I'm really looking to be surprised, and to be given a scrumptious casserole of sound texture and tonal flavor that I can tear into with my earbrains. I mean, that desire is so strong that I've made my way into listening to xenharmonic electronic music performed by other Berklee grads and the like. And I don't really know where to go from here. Is there nothing more to discover? I mean don't get me wrong, passion goes a long way. I want to feel. And a lack thereof would probably be a dealbreaker. But I also feel that anything too pristine or too formulaic or too (for lack of a better word) normal runs the risk of failing to excite.

[@Xandycane]

I'm hard of hearing so lyrics are whatever they sound like to me. Lol I'm about emotion. I don't care what the genre is, just make me feel and believe you feel the same. I will say when I learn the lyrics, I'm sometimes surprised. Against All Odds by Phil Collins hit me 30 years later because I read the lyrics. On the reverse, Kiss from a Rose by Seal was extremely disappointing. I was hearing grave instead of gray which sounded far more poetic, especially instead of 'a light hits the gloom on the gray' I heard 'a light hits a groove on the grave'.