We like predictability,going back to 'there was food here yesterday and now there is today too'. Our mother's heartbeat wasn't an even 120 bpm for 9 months. We just establish a space between two beats and and when we can correctly anticipate when the next one comes, we get that endorphin release
Same with any other aspect of music, usually melody, harmony, and form
It's why contemporary pop is the way it is and so popular for it. You instantly feel familiar because the speed of steady beats, melodic, harmonic, instrumentation and form choices are all relatively expected, and whenever something different pops up, it's only a splash of something you werent expecting (and usually does a good job of setting the expectation for a return to material you're used to). Nothing wrong with that either.
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