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What Your Music Taste Says About Your Personality, According to Therapists

Music tastes can reflect personality traits, emotions, and lived experiences, but they’re not a foolproof way to understand someone.

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I like to think that someone’s taste in music can tell you a lot about them as a person, though (from personal experience) I also know it can be misleading. For instance, some mornings, I’m in the mood for calming indie-folk tunes, and by evening, I might be dancing to Emo Nite bangers from my teen years. Looking at me, or even having a brief conversation with me, you might not guess that I grew up on Blink 182, The Cure, The Killers, etc. You probably wouldn’t be shocked to learn, however, that I’ve cried to Noah Kahan’s recent album. (I’m a multifaceted individual, okay?)

Whatever the case, I was curious about the correlation between a person’s taste in music and their personality. So, I did some research and spoke with a few therapists for their professional insights on the matter. Here’s what they shared.

The Correlation Between Music Taste and Personality

It seems that musical taste and certain personality traits........

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