Is music designed for autistics

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Some of what you're saying sounds like the opposite of autistic. Austistics are supposed to get overwhelmed by sensory overload in public places, and overloaded by conversations in parties, and to not be able to follow conversations.

NT musicians can zero in on the person playing the instrument they play on a recording. Nothing autistic about that. Like aa drummer guy I knew who would comment how great the drumming was on some common song on the radio in which the drummer was not drawing special attention to himself by doing solos (like when I would notice the drummer). Just the drummer being part of the ensemble.

So why is it the first scene in the song never has any words in it?

Actually, sometimes they do. Some music is like that, some isn't. I don't think there's any reason for it other than how the one who makes the music wants them to be.

A busy work canteen.

I used to sit at the end of a table on my own hoping no one would come and sit with me. I always went in when it was quiet and it slowly got busier. Eventually when it was full I would be able to sit there listening to the babble of conversations every so often picking out words here and there depending on who was speaking. Sometimes it was someone on table A sometimes someone on table B, etc. Often I couldn't tell what the sentence meant, but I got the words.

All the while undercutting all that would be the babble of everyone else, plus the bang and clatter of the kitchen area, the hum of the extractor fan, the scraping chairs, the thump of the vending machine, the ping of the microwave, the click of the mouse used by the person in the computer zone next to me etc, etc.

I would struggle to hear what someone sitting next to me was saying to me because of all the background din.

It wasn't nice.

On reflection, the way I described it previously wasn't written in the best way.

I realize that majority of NT-s like music. But lets put it differently. Could it be that each person has NT-side and autistic-side and music is designed to appeal to the autistic-side of most NT-s? I mean, given that everything else in this world is so very much NT, maybe the autistic side of the NT-s was screaming loudly enough for them to come up with the one and only thing to appeal that side of themselves -- music. And the other evidence that music is directed to more autistic side is that it is one of the few emotion-based activities of the NT-s that autistics can actually appreciate.

Nah. I think that liking music, or to be more accurate, liking sounds and compinations of sounds that pleases a person, is a human trait that has nothing to do with being autistic or NT.

I wouldn't say that music is "designed for" autistic people. However, there are known genetic links between musical talent and at least some kinds of autism.

For example, here and here and here and here are articles about a specific genetic mutation shared by thirty non-autistic prodigies (musical and otherwise) and their autistic close relatives, but not shared by any tested relatives of theirs who were neither autistic nor prodigies. (One of these articles also notes commonalities between autistic traits and the habits of the prodigies, leading me to wonder if the "non-autistic" prodigies might, in fact, at least fit the BAP if not a mild form of ASD.)