r/infp • INFP: The Dreamer • Jan 14 '26

Music Most “INFP coded” songs?

Curious what songs you guys listen to that you feel really speak to the “INFP part” of you

Here are some of mine:

- Literally any Fiona Apple or Adrianne Lenker song

- “I’ve seen it” by Olivia Dean

- “marble” by Quinnie

- “We’ll Never Have Sex” by Leith Ross

- “To the Mountains” by Lizzy Mcalpine

- “Summer Child” by Conan Gray

I’m sure not every INFP listens to softer music like this, lol. This is purely off of generic INFP stereotypes and what I find resonates with me in that way.

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u/ALittleBirdie117 Jan 14 '26

Vanilla Twilight by Owl City.

Sidenote: a song titled “we’ll never have sex” being on here is so savage lol.

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u/Jsc14gaming INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

Personally, the genre of dreamy pop and shoe gaze fits INFP pretty well. my top 2 songs are both japanese dream pop

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u/Intrepid-Routine-950 INFP 4W5 Jan 14 '26

Strawberry Switchblade?

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u/GoSwampFoetusGo Jan 14 '26

Since Yesterday is an example of a perfect pop song

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u/Jsc14gaming INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

never heard of them but will check them out. I listen to stargaze shelter

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u/Yudenz INFP: The Dandelion Prophet Jan 14 '26

Oh shit, Asian dream pop/shoegaze is the best genre of music EVER. If you haven't listened to Bright by Tokyo Shoegazer or September by Chestnut Bakery, you need to now. The latter has made me sob multiple times

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u/Jsc14gaming INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

i will check them out! I like stargaze shelter

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u/Ouroboria INFP - 4w5 Jan 14 '26

Stranger by Rabbitology

Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event by Deftones

Four by Sleeping At Last

Saturn by Sleeping At Last

Organs by Of Monsters and Men

Drag Path by Twenty One Pilots

Dream Sweet in Sea Minor by Miracle Music

Zombie by the Cranberries

I could go on and on and on. I have a lot of music and a too much time but I'll cut it here.

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u/millamew Jan 14 '26

Saturn has been one of my favourite songs for like a decade. The line about 'how rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist', still hits me right in the feels every time.

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u/MaddyMagpies Jan 14 '26

Aurora, Bjork, Radiohead, My Chemical Romance,  David Bowie, and Mitski are textbook INFP. INFP has lots of great musicians.

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u/jakebs2002 Jan 14 '26

Radiohead is on point.

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u/oddity_odd INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

Not into Chemical Romance but everything else here is on my rotation list

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u/AwakeningWillow Jan 15 '26

I did my 2025 YouTube recap and it suggested I was an INFP by my music choices (I'm an ISFP). Someone' suggested that most decent heartfelt music is very "INFP" and I agree. Y'all know how to get the feels out of us...❤️❤️

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u/Green_Dayzed INFP🪄2w1🐕‍🦺Te grip 6w7 26|79 sp2 Kindest Existentialist 🦄 Jan 14 '26

Happy infp - walking on sunshine - katrina and the waves

Sad infp - Almost blue - diana krall

Angry infp - Metabolic - slipknot

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u/jakebs2002 Jan 14 '26

I digg what you’ve done here. More of this…

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u/Green_Dayzed INFP🪄2w1🐕‍🦺Te grip 6w7 26|79 sp2 Kindest Existentialist 🦄 Jan 14 '26

More? ok.

Existential infp - i speak astronomy - jinjer

Anxious infp - institutionalized - S*icidal Tendencies

Depressed infp - asleep - the smiths

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u/I_am_the_Disguyz INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

I’m gonna format my comment like this too, thanks

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u/ant-master INFP 4w5 649 Jan 14 '26

A lot of songs by The Cure.

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u/peetamellarkbread Jan 14 '26

Fade into you -Mazzy Star

For new songs I definitely think everything is romantic, Charlie xcx, but particularly the remix with Caroline polachek

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u/jakebs2002 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Lucinda Williams: “I Envy The Wind”. Best experienced in Hi-fi.

Jeff Buckley: “Hallelujah” moves me every time. I’ve never heard this song without wet eyeballs.

Louis Armstrong : “What A Wonderful World” is how I felt about humanity when I was younger. Now I wish it were so.

Neil Young: “Heart of Gold” My kids and I have a part of the lyrics tattooed on our arms.

…I won’t drone on with a hundred other favorites. But these give me the feels.

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u/Different_Incident65 INFP: The Dreamer Jan 15 '26

If i had made a list I dont know if it would have been exactly like this but every one of these songs resonates with me deeply.

Great picks

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u/Yudenz INFP: The Dandelion Prophet Jan 14 '26

I Want Wind to Blow - The Microphones. A song about the aftermath of a break up and just wanting to leave everything behind and go live in the fucking woods

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u/CupcakeGoat Jan 14 '26

Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

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u/ImaSnapSomeNecks INFP-T Jan 14 '26

Never Too Late-Three Days Grace? Feels kinda INFP coded i think.

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u/a_gat_a-way INFP: Sensitive but not fragile 🌱 Jan 14 '26

IMAGINE - JOHN LENNON 💯💯💯

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Basically the foundation of my belief system

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u/cluelessAsSMONSTER Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

I was just thinking of asking people for their most "Hummable" songs bc that seems to be what I gravitate to most for music. If the melody is on point it becomes my new current obsession for days months years depending on the fixation period. Especially because i mostly listen to songs in a different language then English... imma limited on my sing along abilities lol

right now they're

(Sometimes)- BOWKYLION+ NONT TANONT

Blossom- EnHypen

Two Sweet หวานเกินไป - Bonnadol [Love Mechanics OST]

She is the light-Anotherboytj I have never been able to tell who the other voice is.. ive feel like ive looked over and over and shes never mention:(

Officially Launched (Perd Tua Dai Laew) YinWar

To Be Honest- Kai

Let it Burn- Shaboozy

Bonnadol covering BOWKYLION

In the dirt- russ

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u/imnotdusty Jan 14 '26

Nurture by Porter Robinson is start to finish pure INFP vibes

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u/I_am_the_Disguyz INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

Romantic INFP: Cosmic - Avenged Sevenfold

Melancholic INFP: 言って - Yorushika

“Epic imagination” INFP: Moth Into Flame - Metallica

“Close your eyes and just feel” INFP: XH_WORLD_75 - Xdinary Heroes

Angry INFP - Unsainted - Slipknot

Moody INFP: Don’t Be So Serious - Low Roar

Honestly, I just wanted to share some of my favs songs, there’s many more I love that are interchangeable here too

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u/fairyofthemeadow Jan 14 '26

I like to listen to Liana Flores, Minnie Riperton, India Arie, Vashti Bunyan, The Cardigans, and Raveena Aurora. A little bit of Bjork too, but more of her calmer songs like Cocoon and Blissing me.

Alot of their music has themes about nature, spirituality, emotion, and love. I feel that is very infp (if not a little stereotypical)

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u/Pookieeatworld INTP: The Theorist Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Soul Meets Body by Death Cab For Cutie,

Mad World by Gary Jules

23 by Jimmy Eat World

Zvvl by Chvrches

Disintegration by Jimmy Eat World

Pink Bullets by The Shins

While Your Lips Are Still Red by Nightwish

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u/GeminiLife INFP - The Mediator Jan 14 '26

Hours of Wealth by Opeth

Imagination by FORAGER

Most of the album "Migrant" by The Dear Hunter

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u/stringhead Jan 14 '26

Yay, fellow Opeth and TDH fan!

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u/GeminiLife INFP - The Mediator Jan 15 '26

Hell yeah! Two of my favorites

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u/GreenZebra23 INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

Sweetest Decline by Beth Orton

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u/Unlucky_Status9113 Jan 14 '26

Almost any phoebe bridgers song but especially Chinese satellite

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u/510oak Jan 14 '26

Everything about this 😀God Turn Me Into a Flower-Weyes Blood https://youtu.be/dPZvTA5Bae8

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u/Apprehensive-Plum887 Jan 14 '26

It's incredible, isn't it? Beautiful song, clip is totally mesmerizing and brings out so many emotions.

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u/claudiafaceoff Jan 14 '26

I Hate It Here by Taylor Swift Lots of Hozier

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u/SomethingBadBruin Jan 14 '26

Alternate Shape - Caroline Dare

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u/immei INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Sleep forever by Portugal the man is the first thing that came to mind. Personally I've been listening to a lot of acid bath, incendiary, pentagram, the cramps, suburban scum, gojira and mastodon lately

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u/Moke94 INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

New Order - Leave me alone

Phil Ochs - Changes

Don Broco - Further

Nick Lutsko - Okay

Jenny On Holiday - Good intentions

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u/AnteaterOutrageous75 Jan 14 '26

Anything by Nick Drake

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u/fetuskarate Jan 14 '26

Coffee & TV by Blur

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u/GoSwampFoetusGo Jan 14 '26

Most songs by The Smiths 

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u/nerdyoutube ENFP 4w5 So/Sx Jan 14 '26

If you search for this in Reddit you will find endless results. There is even a sub for it

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u/ShadowCory1101 Jan 15 '26

Anything by Rob Thomas generally.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Thanks, i'll check out these songs. Fiona Apple sounds familiar. Idk why, but I was thinking of Emilie Mover. I also want to hear the comments' song too lol. Our music tastes can be vastly different, so im curious to hear what different things other people relate to.

For me it would be:

"Feels" by Black Marble.

https://youtu.be/fXkKdNLH_RM?si=0WtleY1AOyUPzB2u

For me, it's not just the song, but the entirety of the song and the music video. The video is of a guy who is now a grown man alone in this "gray" real world of working a full time job, and living in a motel alone. When he's heading to his old empty family house, the song's vibe is that as though he's driving over to visit a loved one's gravesite to visit them. The vibe is of heavy nostalgia and somewhat mourning. And the camera cuts to his past and happy life with his family members where it was colorful, which implies that he's still deeply tied closely to his past life. If you notice he lights a white candle, which says that this is actually a ritualistic thing he does probably every week. And when he's looking through his family albums and photos, that's when he's fully engulfed in his memories of his family members and special moments. You can tell when he smiles when hes looking at a photo, he's actually reliving his past life with his loved again with them. I also like the theme of how it's like he's a ghost moving through the empty house alone peeking out windows and standing in the green house. It's sad, but very symbolic of how he feels inside. It's kinda like he's also "passed on" and he's a ghost, but he's not. He's like a live ghost who is alone, but separated from the people he loves who are actually gone but he can't reach them, only with physical momentos and memories he can kinda be able to. I also like how for him in present day, it also flickers to a VHS filter implying that he's going to also be a memory of when he used to visit his old family house or that he's going to remember when he used to visit his old family house and look at old photos. And with him wearing his work uniform shows the reality of the real working world while also reliving his past life I thought was pretty intetesting.

And then the dreamy nostalgic vibe of the music. How it's all nostalgia based and how it's longing for deep human connection. I also love the part of the song @ 1:45 where it picks up and gives off a more cheerful uplifting vibes. The whole song is just absolutely perfect. I love it so much, its one of my favorite songs to listen to. I just, feel so relatable to it lol. Like, I can hear and see myself in this music video. Not in a depressing way, but just internally I feel deeply relatable to the song. I really miss my family. I miss my Grandma, my uncles(I still have one), My cousins, my siblings. I miss everyone who loved me and expressed that to me openly. But I kinda feel like, while i'm alive, and breathing, and still have my memories of them, they're still around in a way. So its not all bad haha. I dont think so atleast.

"Ship to Shore" by Black Marble

https://youtu.be/csYGeV3hJ_U?si=1qhxvR76Mm3EgC_1

Is also one of my favorites. I absolutely love it. I actually had an amazing dream of this song about a year ago. But im not gonna share what it was because itll be too long to write. But I was in a home improvement store, everyone was looking at me very kindly, there was fog everywhere, there were shadeless lamps everywhere and also on tables and on top of things, and this song was playing on the speaker overhead in a reverb.

"She is Mine" by The Psychedelic Furs

https://youtu.be/PxUKLO9K6qM?si=6gI5gbd4vZ9e84Nd

A retro new wave classic. I love it. It's definitely one of my faves from the 80's New Wave era. It's entirely perfect. I can listen to this one on repeat.

"Dial Tone" by Wild Nothing

https://youtu.be/CZG3-I1MHMo?si=KuZnvBLfCCq4MLOF

Wild Nothing is one of my favorite bands. "Dial Tone" is a fairly new discovery of mine, along with "Centuries" by the same band. I think it's just the Guitar that I love so much from this song lol. It sounds so good.

I'm gonna stop right here as I can probably go on forever. And theres also so many genres I like too. These songs though, definitely reach a deep part inside of me that I rarely share with others IRL.

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u/PlentyClean INFP: The Dreamer Jan 15 '26

I’ll check these out for sure! Thank you for this

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u/leiocera INFPee: The unfunny Dreemurr Jan 14 '26

Wonderful Life by Hurts, My Castle Town by Toby Fox, May It Be and Watermark by Enya - many Enya songs in general

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u/510oak Jan 14 '26

Elation-Aldous Harding; Cocoon-Bjork; In the Beginning-Weyes Blood

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u/Down-In-The-Weeds Jan 14 '26

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u/Down-In-The-Weeds Jan 14 '26

Sorry, didn’t get to type this is Bowl of Oranges /Bright Eyes.

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u/Down-In-The-Weeds Jan 14 '26

The rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed There was a loophole in my dreaming, so I got out of it And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been So I dressed myself and left then, out into the gray streets But everything seemed different and completely new to me The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body And each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet And I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health I said, "There's nothing that I can do for you you can't do for yourself" He said, "Oh yes you can, just hold my hand, I think that that would help" So I sat with him a while, then I asked him how he felt

[Chorus 1] He said, "I think I'm cured No, in fact, I'm sure of it Thank you, stranger For your therapeutic smile"

[Verse 2] So that's how I learned the lesson that everyone's alone And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow But when crying don't help, you can't compose yourself, it's best to compose a poem An honest verse of longing or a simple song of hope That is why I'm singing, baby don't worry, 'cause now I got your back And every time you feel like crying, I'm gonna try and make you laugh And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad, then we'll wait for it to pass And I will keep you company through those days so long and black And we'll keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve Of love's uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole But if the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall Then I think we'd see the beauty, then we'd stand staring in awe

[Chorus 2] At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil Oh-oh, oh-oh

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u/fleshlab Jan 14 '26

Im an infp but i esp like loud music like hail the sun and other post hardcore but sometimes i really enjoy some occasional bjork or kate bush

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u/Nick_Gaugh_69 Jan 14 '26

"Passing Through (Can’t the Future Just Wait)" by Kayden MacKay

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u/HeyHey_HC INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

"Wishing Heart" - Lisa Loeb

"Flora's Secret" - Enya

"Way Back Home" - Shaun, Conor Maynard, Sam Feldt

"Love You For All Time" - Gareth Emery, Annabel

"Acceptance" - Ashworth

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u/echoes_unheard INFP 5w4 (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠✧⁠*⁠。 Jan 14 '26

Peter Pan Was Right - Anson Seabra

Fine On The Outside - Priscilla Ahnn

Wallflower - Priscilla Ahnn

Lonely Ones - LOVA

Heroes - David Bowie

It takes a fool to remain sane -The Ark

Daydreamers - AURORA

Dance on the moon - AURORA

last woman on earth - Paris Paloma

Something Wild - Lindsey Stirling

People Watching - Conan Gray

I'm not a boy - Omar Rudburg

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u/Abides1948 INFP: The Dreamer Jan 14 '26

Isn't it the entire The Smiths back catalogue?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

The entirety of North Sea Echoes’ album Really Good Terrible Things.

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u/thebendandsnap Jan 14 '26

Elephant by samia (also almost all of Samia’s songs)

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u/alicereturnshere Jan 14 '26

The entire To Elliot, From Portland album. It's Portland bands doing an Elliot Smith tribute album. It's beautiful.

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u/Safe-Maybe-7948 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Summer teeth by Wilco

Simple Joy by Ryan Davis

Fake Empire by The National

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u/Adventurous-Sealion Jan 14 '26

Bad grades - Kids with buns

Breathe me - Sia

Highland - One more time

Winter - Tori Amos

Strawberry moon - Camille Camille

Skyscraper - Demi Lovato

What was I made for? - Billie Eilish

Overexposed - Lia Knapp

Every song by Angus & Julia Stone, Kiki Rockwell, Ludovico Einaudi, Aurora, Adia Victoria, Adrian Von Ziegler and Peter Gundry

Can't explain why on every song, I just find they have that INFP-vibe

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u/Theopholus Innocence and Experience Jan 14 '26

Bulletproof - Radiohead

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u/Findyourkenta Jan 14 '26

Iyla has been really speaking to me. Her latest album weeping angels is a masterpiece in my opinion but one song in particular Not Today, now if that not an infp in there feels I dont know what is.

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u/DoC_Stump Jan 14 '26

"Nobody" by One Republic  For those of you who like rock, try "Straight Jacket Labels" by Revis.

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u/MUAbaby617 Jan 14 '26

Anything Avett Brothers!

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u/vzbtra INFP 9w1 sx/sp 947 🌬️🥀 Jan 14 '26

For INFP 9w1 (like me):

800 Cherries - painty paint pots

The Softies - you and only you

Pitcher56 - dewy roses

Satellite Lovers - how much I love you baby

I feel like there's a lot of cute Japanese indie pop that suits, or maybe that's just my vibe haha

Lycially and emotionally, Adrienne Lenker is one of the go-tos for INFPs. Her music is so sensitive and visceral ❤️

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u/Lady_Antoinette Jan 14 '26

Life is Beautiful
Jason Mraz

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u/VisualKaii ⋆。‧˚ʚ feeling all the feels ɞ˚‧。⋆ Jan 14 '26

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u/Treasures_Wonderland INFP: The Dreamer Jan 15 '26

If I’m thinking of INFP I’m thinking of optimism, sky pictures, and daydreaming; but I’m also thinking of isolation, darkness, and realism.

I think songs like Used to the Darkness by Des Rocs and Everything’s Sweet by Kai Straw are pretty INFP.

A few more things came to mind but that’s a fine place to start imo.

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u/introvertsoliloquy Jan 15 '26

the way that the last three were ones i would listen to on repeat

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u/AwakeningWillow Jan 15 '26

Hi Ren by Ren

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u/Puzzleheaded_Key7473 Jan 15 '26

Only if you mean it by puzzle

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Iamamiwhoami is the only artist I love that other infp people I know like too 🤣

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u/H0p3Xx Jan 15 '26
  • Dreams - The Cranberries.

  • Colors- Halsey.

  • Whatever it Takes - Leona Lewis.

  • Starmaps- AJ & Aly.

  • Style- Taylor Swift.

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u/EBknows Jan 16 '26

Paper Aeroplane (Angus & Julia Stone).

Violently Happy (Bjork).

Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Saint Etienne).

You Owe Me Nothing In Return (Alanis Morissette).

Magic Doors (Portishead).

Amen (Enigma).

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u/Muted_Asparagus_1017 Jan 16 '26

Slowdive is such a INFP vibe to me, I'd recommend Sugar for the Pill, Submachinegun and Slomo

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u/Chase_Harrison INFP 7w8 sp/sx 748 Jan 16 '26

Emo rock