**TL;DR – Rather than living in familiarity, listen to new music to find interest in your emotional response and find yourself in a musical artist’s world.** Listening to new music has become somewhat of a chore. There will always be a question of taste with any form of art you take in, but with music, it’s easy to give up the fight of finding something new to like. It may come with age; I always notice a lot of adults who never pay attention to artists they don’t know. More than anything, music changes our brains directly. Listening to new music is effective because of our brains’ plasticity. They change and adapt with the world. [Writer Jeremy D. Larson](https://pitchfork.com/features/article/listen-to-music/) writes, “When it comes to hearing music, a network of nerves in the auditory cortex called the corticofugal network helps catalog the different patterns of music.” If a pattern is familiar, the right amount of dopamine is released and a judgement of taste can be made. If a pattern is unfamiliar, too much dopamine is released. The same system also preserves our sense of familiarity. The emotional response we have to music can be intense. Larson used Stravinsky’s premier of *The Right of Spring* to dissect our brains on music. It’s a rather rigorous ballet that has changed the scope of music’s tonality since its debut, notably influencing jazz, electronic, and experimental music greatly. The audience threw a fit during the show...and vegetables. It was quite uncanny. They couldn’t control the dopamine response that was being triggered in their brains – the piece was just so new for the time that there was no precedent for anything like it, yet it’s commended with such generosity. Now that a lot of musical patterns are well known and documented, listening to new music is interesting because of the subtle dopamine spikes when patterns are used. With such a variation of arrangements and production styles, it’s easy to fit a lot of patterns in songs. Knowing this makes me want to approach new artists with open arms and refuse to live in familiarity. Larson, again, states: “The choice to listen to new music prioritizes, if for one listen only, the artist over you. It is an emotional risk to live for a moment in the abyss of someone else’s world, but this invisible exchange powers the vanguard of art, even in times of historic inertia.”

I agree with this opinion to some extent. I believe that music is a self-soothing tool, just as much as it is a form of expression and artistic ability. Sometimes, the need to self-soothe, or wallow in sadness and nostalgia after a life-altering event is more important than finding new music. A certain kind of music or some songs can be the balance to the ever-changing surroundings of life. However, music is as therapeutic as art therapy, or any other kind of therapy. So, music has different impacts on our brain and can help create a broader spectrum of appreciation.

**TL; DR - Listening to your favourite music is better than listening to new music because your favourite music is directly connected to personal memories and tastes**. While new music definitely has the ability to open up our minds and make us experience something different and say in touch with current times, listening to your favourite music is more beneficial because it leads to better wellbeing. It is something personally chosen and familiar, which can take to memories of different kinds, and this always resonates with finding inner peace in something that is yours. Also, listening to your favourite music is good for your physical health. According to Christopher Bergland, ['[r]esearchers in Europe have made a breakthrough discovery that listening to your favorite music triggers biological changes that improve the lining of your blood vessels (endothelial function) and reduces the risk of heart disease'](https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-athletes-way/201309/why-is-listening-your-favorite-music-good-your-heart). Listening to favourite songs has to do with both physical wellness and emotional connection.

**TL;DR: Since the purpose of music is enjoyment, it should be up to the listener** For most people, the purpose of music is entertainment/enjoyment. So if listening to the same 1D track from 2013 is what they enjoy, so be it. If people simply don't enjoy listening to new music, that's just that. There shouldn't be rules and "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts" for something that is purely subjective entertainment (for the most part, obviously some entertainment is subject to moral shoulds and shouldn'ts). And it just doesn't make sense to make yourself do something you don't enjoy, unless it's something like school or work that will leave a major consequence if you don't. But music is people's respite; it should be whatever gives them that.

It doesn't matter what song are you listening to. In my opinion, Favorite music has much close to heart and is always better to listen to the favorite song in comparison to new music.