MUSIC NEWS- A recent research study by the department of psychology at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland asked people worldwide to describe their personality, and then to list their favorite music genres. The results show a direct correlation between people's personality traits and the style of music that they enjoy.
What your music says about you:
Indie: Devotees have low self-esteem and are not very hard-working, kind or generous. However, they are creative.
Rock 'n' Roll: Fans have high self-esteem and are very creative, hard-working and at ease with themselves, but not very kind or generous.
Blues: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and at ease with themselves.
Classical: Classical music lovers have high self-esteem, are creative and at ease with themselves, but not outgoing.
Heavy metal: Very creative and at ease with themselves, but not very outgoing or hard-working.
Reggae: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, kind, generous and at ease with themselves, but not very hard-working.
Country & Western: Very hard-working and outgoing.
Dance: Creative and outgoing but not kind or generous.
Rap: High self-esteem, outgoing.
So, from this we can decide that people who listen to indie bands are miserable disheveled, no drive, no future wrecks, while fans of rap music are bold, brash and full of self-confidence. Instead of this just being a narrow-minded stereotype, it's the result of an extensive psychological survey by Professor Adrian North of more than 36,000 music lovers, which confirms, once and for all, that our musical tastes do reflect our personality. But one of the study's most interesting discoveries is that classical music lovers share a high number of personality traits with people that rock out to heavy metal. Fans of indie music, for instance, were found to have low self-esteem and little motivation, but described themselves as creative. Rap enthusiasts, on the other hand, tend to think a lot of themselves and are extremely outgoing. Those who love dance music are equally extrovert but are more likely to be unfriendly and slightly self-cantered.
MMN readers; do you agree? Do your music tastes match up to the professors study? Let us know...
I like many different type of music, I can go from hip-hop to indie, and pop to screamo. I basically like every genre listed. They are all different personality traits, what does that say about me?
Posted by: Violet | Sep 30, 2010 at 06:31 PM