The polyphonic perception video has gone viral on Twitter/X and TikTok
Find out what is “Polyphonic Perception,” as social media personality Brelle the Nail Connoisseur claims that she has it and that it gives her a new rare ability. Not sure of what we are talking about? Here’s the brief.
Earlier, a TikTok user Brelle claimed that she has polyphonic perception and it gave her the new ability to identify a beat. The social media influencer, who seems to be standing in her kitchen in the video has now taken over the internet like a storm.
What is the meaning of Polyphonic Perception as Brelle the Nail Connoisseur’s My Love TikTok viral video turns into a meme
This video and people being impressed has really been replaying in my head for days bc is this not normal? Polyphonic perception is just a fancy way of saying you can hear the layers and intricacies in songs and it's really thrown me for a loop bc Im so sure this is normal? pic.twitter.com/9bWQkSSOdb
— ☆ (@quilltwilight) July 17, 2025
“It’s me being today years old that I found out ‘polyphonic perception’ was a real thing. I didn’t get diagnosed with ADHD until I was 29, which was last year. And I feel like I have just discovered a new layer of the way my fucking brain works,” she said in the viral video.
“Because my entire life I have always been able to hear a song, sing it, tap my fingers to one beat, tap my foot to another beat, but dance to something else … And I thought everybody could do that. And now I’m learning that everybody cannot. I really want to know what it feels like to be a non-neurodivergent person,” Brelle added.
listening to bad idea with my polyphonic perception pic.twitter.com/TeazTFzk6J
— ravyn lenae archive (@ravynarchive) July 19, 2025
As aforesaid, a bizarre video has gone viral on social media platforms, wherein a woman named Brelle claims that she has polyphonic perception and that due to this, she can now identify a beat. As strange as it may sound, the woman didn’t just stop there, as she went on to showcase her skill set but instead got trolled with her failing to make out half of the beats in Justin Timberlake’s song.
In her now-viral video Brelle seems to be standing in her kitchen, while in the background the chorus of Timberlake’s “My Love” is being played. Brelle then uses gestures with her fingers as she tries to shows the camera different beats and production layers that she can hear from Timbaland and Danjah co-produced song.
gen z is inventing new ways to feel special on TikTok and this time it’s “polyphonic perception” (which i guess means identifying different instruments/beats in a song)
(which everyone famously does) pic.twitter.com/uX8kPWfrSG
— just a lil’ guy (@justin_al3x) July 13, 2025
The viral video that has taken internet like a blaze and intrigued many was captioned as “Visual representation of polyphonic perception for me,” as the overlay text on her now viral clip.
The bizarre video didn’t just stop at TikTok, but found its ways on the various other social media platforms, especially it’s been swirling around on X/Twitter after the video was re-posted by a X user named ‘@heisbayo_.’
Who else can relate? pic.twitter.com/NXZu3mojYY
— Light Em Up Abuja (@heisbayo_) July 16, 2025
Social Media Users Reaction
Netizens are surely loving the vibe as they keep on sharing and commenting the video. Every re-share has so far received more than thousands of likes and views. One such user reshared the video captioning it, “This not how everyone hears music?”
Another one penned, “If you’ve ever had musical education and or smoke weed frequently this is naturally how you’ll listen to music.” A third one wrote, “I listen to all my music like this. Is this not…. normal??”
What is Polyphonic Perception?
For the curious, as per Britannica, Polyphony is a term derived from Greek which simply means many sounds. While in music, the term means the simultaneous combination of two or more melodic lines or tones. Thus, if a single interval is made up of two or more chord or tones of three simultaneous tones is called Polyphonic. In simpler terms, it means two or more tones in an interval.
Polyphonic perception is the mind’s ability to perceive musical elements from different vantage points.
just got diagnosed w polyphonic perception 💔
— jay (@JAYVERSACE) July 19, 2025