You can learn more about yourself than you realise from the songs you enjoy. Good music doesn’t just sound good, it reflects your habits and the way you express yourself in your life and around other people. On Viveeyan’s new EP Solstice, each track captures a different emotional space, and the one you’re drawn to might say more about you than you think.

Shapeshifting: You’re a perfectionist 

You’re so reliable that people forget you might need help too. You’re the one your friends call when things fall apart, the one who checks in first, remembers birthdays without reminders, plans the hangouts, and still shows up even when you’re already stretched thin. At work, you’ve set the perfect example. At home, as the golden child, you’re the one who doesn’t create problems but has to solve them.

From the outside, it’s easy to admire how effortlessly you seem to handle everything. But that composure is deliberate. You’ve taught yourself how to smile when you’re overwhelmed and how to downplay the things that hurt you.

You’re exhausted, but you keep pushing because the alternative feels riskier. If you let go, who will step in? If you admit you’re struggling, what will people think? So you keep performing the version of yourself everyone depends on. 

Living Like Me: You’re the ‘black sheep’

They’ve made you out to be difficult, and you’ve stopped trying to correct them. You’re not interested in fitting into expectations. At some point, you realised that no matter how much you adjusted yourself, it was never enough. There would always be something else to fix or take away, so you stopped trying.

Now, people describe you as “too much,” and you’ve leaned into it. If something feels right to you, you do it. You don’t filter yourself to make other people comfortable, and you don’t pretend just to be accepted. If that makes you the bad guy in someone else’s story, so be it.

You’ve been called every name in the book, but to you, those are just labels. And you’ve decided they are easier to live with than not being true to yourself.

Not In Not Out: You overthink everything

You didn’t become careful by accident. You’ve been hurt before, and this time, you paid attention. Where you once got carried away by what something could be, you now look at what it actually is. 

People say you overthink, but you’ve just seen what happens when you ignore your instincts, and you’re not willing to do that again. So you stay in that in-between space, not fully in, not fully out, until things make sense to you.

Sun Shining: You’re the life of the party 

You’re lighter, not because your life is easier, but because you’ve realized there’s no point postponing your happiness. You let yourself experience things as they come, finding joy in simple moments and bringing laughter into every room you enter.

People describe you as a breath of fresh air and wonder how you always have a smile on your face. It’s not that you don’t face difficulties. You do. You’ve just stopped letting them define every part of your life.

You understand that happiness doesn’t have to be earned, and you don’t have to wait for everything to be perfect before you allow yourself to feel at peace. This version of your life, as it is, is enough to be enjoyed.

You: You’re Comfortable Being Alone

You’ve let go of the belief that love must be worked for, and no longer overgive in the hope that it will secure something lasting. You don’t feel the need to prove your worth or earn your place.

You are yourself, and that is enough. Love starts and ends with you, on your own terms.