Casting your film…

A film of Listener 9269’s Spotify: 4 people live in it (The Radio Romeo: LANY tears, Drake plans, then Waka Flocka clears the floor. The Black Parade Kid: Helena gets filed beside a secret you can scream. The Velvet Confidant: Lonely gets a soft landing between LIMBO and Ariana. The Tender Witness: You booked Free Fallin' beside Laufey's expertly timed emotional weather.). Together they are IFOM, The Stadium-Hook Softie: I for Intimate, F for Focused, O for Rooted, M for Mainstream.

A real listener’s reading, shown without their name: The Stadium-Hook Softie

Who lives in yours?

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Listener 9269’s letters

The test Listener 9269 didn’t take

Four dimensions, read from what Listener 9269 actually plays.

I is for Intimate

100%

vs Kinetic

The loudest room still gets your full attention.

At your center you reach for warmth and closeness - voices, guitars, rooms you can hear breathe. The feeling arrives quietly, even when the edges get loud.

F is for Focused

72%

vs Eclectic

You lock onto a feeling and stay there.

Your taste holds together as 4 close sides of one sound. You know exactly what you like, and you go deep rather than wide.

O is for Rooted

78%

vs Rising

Familiar ground has a longer lease than novelty.

Your taste is settled. The sides you love now are the sides you have loved - you return rather than wander.

M is for Mainstream

100%

vs Niche

The obvious chorus gets first refusal.

You meet music where most people are - the artists everyone knows, the songs that fill rooms. Shared taste, big rooms.

Listener 9269’s reading

Who Listener 9269 is

As Brew wrote it to Listener 9269.

Your core is rap-and-pop crossover swagger, catchy confidence with a little chaos. Drake, Lauv, LANY, and Waka Flocka Flame give that side its big-room shine. Still, you reach for intimacy, even when the chorus gets loud.

Your guitar-emotional-damage side turns to My Chemical Romance and Pierce The Veil. Your glossy R&B side keeps keshi and The Weeknd close after dark. Olivia Rodrigo and Laufey bring your softer heartbreak into focus. You want the chorus huge, but the feeling close enough to touch.

4 people

The people inside Listener 9269’s library

Brew didn’t ask what Listener 9269 likes. It listened until the clusters showed up - press play on any of them.

1 of 4 · The one you reach for most

The Radio Romeo

LANY tears, Drake plans, then Waka Flocka clears the floor.

for rap-and-pop crossover swagger

What Brew heard120 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Radio Romeo: Thru These Tears - LANY

LANYDrakeLauvTOMORROW X TOGETHER
2 of 4 · Shows up when it wants

THE BLACK PARADE KID

Helena gets filed beside a secret you can scream.

The one where guitars do emotional damage

What Brew heard100 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Black Parade Kid: Floral & Fading - Pierce The Veil

Pierce The VeilMy Chemical Romance5 Seconds of SummerThe All-American Rejects
3 of 4 · Shows up when it wants

The Velvet Confidant

Lonely gets a soft landing between LIMBO and Ariana.

for glossy R&B-pop moods

What Brew heard130 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Velvet Confidant: LIMBO - keshi

keshiJustin BieberAriana GrandeTaylor Swift
4 of 4 · Shows up when it wants

The Tender Witness

You booked Free Fallin' beside Laufey's expertly timed emotional weather.

for soft indie heartbreak and glow

What Brew heard148 BPM · 4 bars

The 4 bars the film plays for The Tender Witness: I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) - The 1975

The 1975John MayerOlivia RodrigoLaufey

One song

The song that explains Listener 9269

Not Listener 9269’s favorite, not the most played. The one song all of Listener 9269’s people share.

Free Fallin' - Live at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, CA - December 2007
John Mayer
“Warm, bittersweet stadium singalong with soft indie glow and heart-on-sleeve ache.”

Listener 9269’s Spotify took the test

IIntimateFFocusedORootedMMainstream

Listener 9269 is The Stadium-Hook Softie

Brew listened to 2,244 songs from Listener 9269’s artists and found 4 people living in there. Yours takes about a minute.

The film as it posts: a story, cut to Listener 9269’s songs.

A real listener’s reading, shown without their name: The Stadium-Hook Softie

Who lives in yours?

Free. Sign in with Spotify and get your own reading like this one. Brew adds one private playlist, Fresh Finds, with new music from your top artists. Remove it any time.