Rarely does a song have one trait, because that’s boring. So understanding how the cognitive functions appear in music is just one piece of the audio puzzle; now it’s time to look at the 16 personalities and figure out what kind of music represents each type in terms of composition. For each song, I list whether I’m typing lyrics, music, or both. In the first edition, I thought I didn’t need to specify, but my own reactions when others tie music to personalities, and my strong desire to avoid implying that a negative characteristic is inherent to a type, mean that I’m going to specify from now on.
To disclaim again: I’m not asserting that people of a personality type will like this music automatically. Not everyone wants to hear things that are like them; not everyone likes the genres I like. And I’m not asserting that every song maps to MBTI; songs can be things humans can’t. What I am asserting is that you can listen to these songs and go, “I can hear how this is a Ti-Ne song” or “This song really cares about Si.” You might even start figuring out why you like what you like or why some things you don’t like haven’t clicked with you. Hopefully this helps you understand your collection and what you use music for, or it gives you analogical art to understand yourself.
A fair amount of what I’m basing the stack order on is what’s most present in the song, whether it’s the first thing that hits you or the main thing that keeps coming up. As with typing people, it’s difficult to go beyond two functions, but you can sometimes get to three or four. And sometimes I’m typing lyrics, sometimes I’m typing music, and sometimes I’m typing them together. Like with regular MBTI musings, it doesn’t matter if I get these right; it matters if it sparks thoughts that help you converse with yourself and others. Also, while I tried to link to just music links on YouTube, sometimes I had to link to the official music videos. I haven’t watched the videos to know whether their content is nice or safe. Writing the book took enough time as it is.
Next part: ENFJ and INFJ
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