You Know Within Five Seconds if You Like a Song
Chattanooga, Tennessee—(Wise Brother)
A new study from New York University says it takes us less than FIVE SECONDS to decide if we like a song . . . and our opinions don’t change depending on whether we listen to a snippet or the whole song.
But in general, we like the song more if we hear the whole thing before the excerpt.
The study says, quote, “The fact that a small excerpt is enough to tell us if we like it or hate it, suggests that we respond more to the general vibe that a song brings to us rather than its musical notes per se.”
