Heavy Metal fans, meet your personality twins: classicl fans

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Heavy Metal fans, meet your personality twins: classicl fans

Postby Lyrs » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:04 pm

Fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people who are at ease with themselves, which makes them very similar to fans of classical music.

That's the finding of a new study at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University of the link between peoples' personalities and their choice of music.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008 ... ml?ref=rss



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Postby Otohiko » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:30 pm

I actually knew that one for a long time :roll:
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Postby rubyeye » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:25 pm

I think this is the article you really want to read:

Why heavy metal and classical fans make sweet music together.


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Postby Lyrs » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:59 pm

so if being calm and quiet is an factor of heavy metal and classical fans' personalities, what would you have with a heavy metal classical fan? methinks they might be mutes
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Postby Emong » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:28 am

Rap fans are outgoing and far from gentle, while indie music lovers lack both self-esteem and the work ethic.

Awesome.

Srsly, what? :lol:

I highly doubt the reliability of these results. They're propably very widely generalisized...

Btw, if I listen to indie and metal, am I a paradox? :shock:
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Postby Scott Green » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:12 am

Emong wrote:am I a paradox? :shock:

yes
i mean you listen to crapload of shoegaze/noise stuff where you can't even decipher the vocals/lyrics and yet you are turned off by most instrumental music...mr. paradox

anyway srsly now
Emong wrote:I highly doubt the reliability of these results. They're propably very widely generalisized...

what are you expecting from an article that merly even scratches the surface of that topic? :roll:
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Postby Emong » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:03 am

Scott, they're still vocals :evil: You fail in understanding me. I don't love you anymore </3

And yes, it merely scratches the surface. That's a better way to put it 8-) I doubt it's ever that possible to define a person by his taste in music like that. It's pretty much the same as with stereotypes; you can attach a characteristic or two to a person with a certain high-ish percentual reliability factor, yet it's still a mystery to me how a person could actually be defined by a charcteristic or two...
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:15 am

It kind of has to be generalized in order to make any statement about relations to personality.
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Postby Kevmaster » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:25 am

I can sum up any of these generalizations with 1 word: Bullshit.


The music you listen to does not have to resemble your character in any way.
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Postby Tono_Fyr » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:14 am

Kevmaster wrote:I can sum up any of these generalizations with 1 word: Bullshit.


The music you listen to does not have to resemble your character in any way.

Does it have to? No. Everyone's different in a lot of ways, and to say that every person will listen to music that reflects them is simply erroneous.

However, I have a more apt question. Does it TEND to? Yes. The point isn't that everyone who listens to x is always like statement y, it's that if you listen to statement x and enjoy it greatly, statement y is a lot more likely to define you. Will it be off from time to time? Yes, hell, I'd say it's off on about 30% of cases, but there's always a margin for error in anything that deals with personality.

No study like this (the kind that involves making assumptions about large numbers of people) is ever going to be completely right about everyone because (derp derp) everyone is different.

PS The "indie makes you an emo kid" thing is something I've actually thought for a while now. It sounds like Emo for people who feel they're too old to listen to emo.
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Postby Emong » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:00 pm

Flint the Dwarf wrote:It kind of has to be generalized in order to make any statement about relations to personality.

But the point is that generalized results are not applicable to defining personalities. Characteristics or tendencies maybe, but when results are presented in a generalized way such as this, it tends to make people jump into conclusions..
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