We don't really think about the different factors that influence how we perceive music, such as our upbringing, life experiences, emotions associated with different aspects of the genre, artist or listening environment, age, and many more things. 

In this episode, Jay Riehl and I discuss how that influences music creators and music listeners, and how you can't appeal to everyone. The only real north star of music creation is how you feel within yourself about what you're creating (and the feelings of the team involved) and you need to allow that to flourish. If you try to hard to fit into what you think people want to hear, you'll miss that target and get no further, because everyone perceives things differently in ways you can't possibly hope to really understand.