The linked website returns 403 Forbidden nginx error pages for hours now, for me.

That’s long and kind of interesting, but also super pop-sci-y.

The opening talks about how music physically reshapes your brain, but what doesn’t?

A professional athlete’s brain is going to develop differently from a professional chef or professional writer or professional mathematician. Whether you regularly exercise or take drugs or do whatever will all change which regions of your brain get more or less prominence and resource and change it’s wiring. That how the brain works.

The rest of the points all follow in a similar manner. Some are interesting and can be taken at face value, a lot have glaring obvious questions unanswered that make it sound like someone is boosting a nothing study result.

Overall, they don’t add up to a particularly interesting or cohesive point, it honestly feels AI generated.

Spent 8-13 hours/day for most of the last 30 years listening to Tangerine Dream while programming. Often while high.

Definitely resulted in a brain that is no longer compatible with most of the carbon units on this planet

ive only listened to dubstep since 2009, what shape is my brain?

Well worth the long read. Thank you for sharing. Appreciated. Looking for more similar posts.

Studies have found that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)—a brain region sitting just above your eye sockets—becomes hyperactive both in people with OCD and in people listening to music.

I listen to mostly Japanese music, because after the west bid adeiu to rock radio and rock music in general (there are some exceptions), I followed the music I liked. And the best rock music made today is made by people who grew up in Japan. Some of them speak English. Some of those sing in English, but they’re ethnically Japanese. Like ONE OK ROCK, formed in Japan, grew up there, then sold out 10-15 years ago, moved to Los Angeles, and signed with Fueled by Ramen. Still my favourite band, though despite their name (which is a play on “one o’clock,” the time in the early morning they’d rent studio time, when it was cheapest, and the fact that Ls and Rs can be pronounced the same in Japanese), they play mostly pop punk, like others on their label (e.g. Fall Out Boy, Paramore, etc.). But I listen to a lot of others. Recently been listening to the new hyde album.

So yeah, wonder what that says about me. If language matters (I don’t know Japanese) or if it’s the genre.

I still do listen to western rock, but most of it is not new. I still listen to rock music from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.