I saw a story on the BBC News web site yesterday about a study that a professor of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland carried out. The research found that people could have their personality defined by their musical tastes. Here’s the results:
Blues: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle and at ease Jazz: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and at ease Classical: High self-esteem, creative, introvert and at ease Rap: High self-esteem, outgoing Opera: High self-esteem, creative, gentle Country and Western: Hardworking, outgoing Reggae: High self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, outgoing gentle and at ease Dance: Creative, outgoing, not gentle Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, not gentle Bollywood: Creative, outgoing Rock/Heavy Metal: Low self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, not outgoing, gentle and at ease Chart Pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease Soul: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle, and at ease Interesting, but what if you like several genres like I do? And how the hell do they come up with people who like classical music are introverted, and people who like rock are gentle? What if, like me, you like chart music as well as indie and dance? Can I be both creative and NOT creative, hardworking yet NOT hardworking, and have both a high AND low self-esteem at the same time? Am I bi-polar? All fair and good if you only like one genre of music and stick to it, but it’s hardly rule of thumb. It suppose it compounds that EMO’s are misery-guts’? Another interesting little finding are the top ten GAY albums! Number one on the list is Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. There’s a high proportion of albums on the list that I either own or want to own. I’ll mark the ones in brackets. The top ten reads like this: 1. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (own it)2. The Smiths – The Smiths (don’t own it, but have Smiths songs)
3. Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman (owned it)
4. Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls
5. Judy Garland – Judy At Carnegie Hall
6. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (see other Smiths entry)
7. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (like to own it)
8. Madonna – The Immaculate Collection (owned it)
9. Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual (owned it)
10. Antony And The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now (own it) I’m SSSSSOOOOOO gay! There’s actually a list of 100 albums in the “gay” chart. Click here for the full list of albums.
