Human brains being the envy of the musicians of the Galaxy due to the fact that music of all things comes to us so easily.
Human brains pick up rhythm and patterns so quickly compared to other species and alien musicians are heinously jealous. That’s not to say alien species don’t have music in any capacity, of course they do, but it’s less omnipresent in their cultures compared to ours. Music and singing to aliens are held to the same standard as sculpting marble. It’s a very difficult and precise art form that takes years of practice to get ‘right’.
And then there’s human children singing with each other as they jump a skipping rope. Using the beat to keep perfect time.
Humans sing to show each other every emotion under the sun. They sing to show reverence to their gods or ancestors or spirits. Humans will sing to anything that will listen and even things that won’t. Hell, Humans sing to pass the time. They sing when they can’t get a song out of their head.
That’s right, humans are so perfectly wired to understand music that their brains get hooked on musical stimulus and continually loop it. Involuntarily. Sometimes for days at a time. To the point of annoyance of the human.
Humans use music and rhythm to help them remember things because remembering something with a beat is easier than remembering something without one.
That’s like solving rocket science equations for fun to aliens.
