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Who are you,told in sound.

Paste your stats.fm — Spotify or Apple Music. Get a research-grounded persona from your top artists, genres, and real listening behavior. Shareable. Evolves. We don’t guess. We translate.

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16 archetypes · a few examples

You’ll land
somewhere like these.

kinetic populist aurakin sprite
full volume · front row

The Kinetic Populist

You chose the mainstream — and you chose it with taste. Confident, current, built for the front row.

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melancholic architect aurakin sprite
deep structure · minor key

The Melancholic Architect

Deep structure, minor key. You build your listening like a building — complex, cerebral, measured.

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ritual ecstatic aurakin sprite
bass + body + heat

The Ritual Ecstatic

Music is the room, the crowd, the heat. You don't listen alone the way most do — it's a ritual.

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quiet storyteller aurakin sprite
words first · soft

The Quiet Storyteller

Words first, soft. You hunt for lyrical truth at slow tempo. The song is the story.

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what we stand on

Three frameworks. Decades of research. No horoscope.

01

Big Five personality

The gold standard in academic psychology — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. Your top artists predict where you sit on each. Meta-analyses show the correlations are real.

Rentfrow & Gosling, 2003

02

MUSIC model

Five sonic dimensions the academic world uses to describe taste — mellow, unpretentious, sophisticated, intense, contemporary. Your listening resolves to coordinates in this space.

Rentfrow, Goldberg & Levitin, 2011

03

Empathy vs systemizing

Lyric-first listeners read emotional subtext. Production-first listeners read pattern and structure. Cambridge research maps this split to your top artists.

Greenberg et al., 2015-22

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