Researchers from the University of Cambridge have established that your preference for particular music can provide an insight into how you think. (Get outta town!)
We are told Systemizers who favour rules and patterns in the world and who are highly organised prefer high energy stuff like punk and heavy metal whilst Empathisers like mellow reflective stuff such as folk and electronica.
It all seems a bit obvious tbh and I would be more impressed if some of the acts mentioned were not so, well, passé. As for me, I’m just gonna chill to some JJ Cale. Noggin, Dude.
http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy42/stevewilkinson7/sex-pistols_zps573aawzd.jpg
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/from-the-sex-pistols-to-queen-a-persons-musical-preference-provides-insight-into-how-they-think-says-study-10411778.html
‘…empathetic people prefer mellow music from R&B to soft rock and what the report called “unpretentious” music such as folk, as well as contemporary music, including electronica and Euro pop…’
Apart from folk, I’m pretty unempathetic towards everything in that list. Not keen on heavy metal or punk either. Either I’m an Afterword reader, or I don’t exist. Or, just possibly, this is all bollocks.
Having said that, an awful lot of footballers in the 80s liked George Benson.
Sometimes I prefer a strawberry milkshake and sometimes I prefer a whole rack of ribs. Sometimes I want to F*** a harem full of lusciously oiled and tanned beautiful girls and sometimes I just want to ponder a reflection in a puddle. Go figure?
Empathiser.
That said, someone should really do some research as to why so much research at places like Oxford and Cambridge is such a lump of shite.
I knew a few people at Oxford (or was it Cambridge?) and with regards to popular music they made footballers’ taste appear cutting edge.
What tosh: I love a lot of music from “both” camps, and dislike a lot too.
Off to listen to my current favourite mellow folk band, Ferocious Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEpifxUXVk8
FD? You really do need to get to Bearded Theory – they are virtually the house band.
Generally speaking, my distant memory from school at sixteen years old was all the quiet lads good at maths/sciences were into Queen, ELO, Floyd, Motorhead and Rush. The ones who excelled in P.E. and woodwork/ metalwork it was The Jam, jazz funk or electro. English/drama/ art, media studies? Chances are you liked Joy Division, The Cure, Echo And The Bunnymen. Everyone else was into Duran Duran, Wham or Michael Jackson. Life was so much more simple in 1982.
Me and my mate, Dave? We were still slightly clinging on to New Wave , 2Tone, Blue Beat and old TV theme tunes, so quite conservative, in hindsight.
Empathiser. Despite boldly claiming that I could kick a poor, defenceless horse to death in another thread.
Are you empathetic or analytical?
It’s got f**k all to do with my music tastes.
My borderline OCD implores me to apply rules, processes and patterns to stuff. As does my job, which is basically analytical in intent, with a healthy dose of logic and common sense (a bit like most peoples job I suppose).
If you want to apply this research of the bleedin’ obvious, then I declare myself to be a contradiction.
“Sex Pistols, The Smiths and Pink Floyd” – sounds like my playlist for this evening – add in Cockney Rejects, Courtney Barnett and Sky, and that’s my evening of systematic empathy sorted