Everyone Agree?

Of course pop requires familiarity to be enjoyed, as much as any music does.
The difference between pop and all other music is that pop music is shoved in your face so much that familiarity is inevitable.

cause Sup Forums said it's shit

I can't be bothered reading that entire study, so can you summarise why the graph is wrong?

Pop is very much so hook based, rather than complexity based. Simple hook based music is inherently easier/quicker to become familiar with. The fact that it is "shoved in your face"(i.e. so popular) adds to its familiarity, means it would already become familiar much quicker. That's also why pop music often has a lot of repetition in it.

Yeah good point, formal familiarity also matters
This is why TMR is so divisive

what genre is "great"?

Vaporwave

>Your categories do not make sense.
What doesn't make sense about them? I get that they're overly simplistic, but that doesn't mean they're senseless.

>This graph would be much more interesting if it was a template and you could fill in and compare experiences with albums.
Probably, but very few people would have the patience to produce their own graphs.

>Like TMR would be an exponential curve that then settles high.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you know what an exponential graph looks like? It never settles. It just gets bigger and bigger by greater and greater orders of magnitude for infinity.

They're not genres at all. The only genre there is "pop" and all I really meant by that was accessible.

This is a terrible chart
You have music listed as great, okay, inaccessible, and pop
This makes no fucking sense
You have 3 opinions and a genre
And like other people said this chart serves no purpose if it can't show a wider variety of music
In short, please look into killing yourself