Musical Taste and Personality

[SarzWix]

I've just been reading this report on the BBC site, which says psychologists have found a link between personality types and the music we listen to. It's quite interesting, but I think it falls down in many places, not least in not allowing for people who like more than one type of music!

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Music tastes link to personality

According to this, I am 'hardworking' and 'not-hardworking' have 'high self-esteem' and 'low self-esteem' and am 'creative' and 'not creative'... No wonder I'm a bit nuts - I'm having a personality crisis!!

[ailsasyl]

According to this, I am 'hardworking' and 'not-hardworking' have 'high self-esteem' and 'low self-esteem' and am 'creative' and 'not creative'... No wonder I'm a bit nuts - I'm having a personality crisis!!

Me too!

[HeyWayne]

Linking peoples music tastes* with being "creative" is ground breaking thinking!

My music taste is the "if I like it, I'll listen to it" kind.

*with the exception of rap and country music oddly

[Starchild]

Well on my iPod I have Seth Lakeman, Kiss, Iron Maiden, the Wurzels, Wagner, Beethoven, Blur, EMF, 400yr old bawdy folk songs, music from Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Barrowman, My Chemical Romance, Lynryd Skynrd...

So, what am I?

maybe I shouldn't ask.......

[Hilary B]

There is music I like in many 'categories', and no category in which I like all of it. What does that say about me? That I don't fit in a pigeon hole, that's all!
My music collection includes Shadows, Spinners (the English folk-group, rather than the American version) Slade, Simon and Garfunkel, Beatles, religious music, assorted classical (too widely scattered to list), Roger Whittaker, Victor Borge, Flanders and Swann, '60s collections, '70s collections, Mike Oldfield, etc..... (lots of etc....)

[zazen999]

Load of old slugswallop.

Another academic trying to make a name for themselves.

[sharonr]

Most of my collection is rock/metal, but I also like some rap, r`n`b, blues, classical, even some chart pop. The only music I don`t like is reggae and opera.
No wonder I get confused easily. And I thought it was because I`m a blonde female with glasses.
I`ll have to change my excuse from
"I`m a blonde female with glasses."
To
"It`s not me it`s because of my musical taste."

[happybunny]

But I come into most of those catergories!!!!!

[Alice]

I like just about any kind of music - except Rap. I think I've spent my pennies for a bit of everything.
In my final honours Psychology Degree (a while ago now) one of the questions was
"Whatever made the music killed the man . Discuss"
No idea what I wrote in response to that.

[sewer rat]

Well on my iPod I have Seth Lakeman, Kiss, Iron Maiden, the Wurzels, Wagner, Beethoven, Blur, EMF, 400yr old bawdy folk songs, music from Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Barrowman, My Chemical Romance, Lynryd Skynrd...

So, what am I?

maybe I shouldn't ask.......

With a couple of exceptions we could swap ipods !!

[di]

For me music(like all arts)is to be enjoyed & interpretted as you wish/feel.My tastes probably would cover all of the above~if I like it!!
I did a while at art college~one of the many things that swayed me to leaving was the constant need to analyze(sc)other peoples work,why not just look at it & feel what it makes you feel?~& worse being told how to express myself truly in my art!!On one hand we'd be told there's no rights/wrongs & then told we were doing it wrong!
Getting back to subject I do listen to different music for different times~re:~upbeat for housework.So would agree 50% with report in that music can encourage different personal attributes!(In my solemn/desperate teens I'd play The Smiths over & over which did absolutely nothing to bring me back to merryland!likewise spend an afternoon listening to something a tad bit more upbeat & my mood lifts)~sorry I'm bored!!

[Rhona]

I love most styles in smallish doses - DH plays wonderful flamenco guitar, so I love that; father listened to much opera so that's filtered through too; I adore and worship Leonard Cohen, but also really like Madonna, and totally love poppy pop such as Girl's Aloud, and all kinds of stuff. Bit of rock, even a bit of rap (haven't ever bought any but some of the lyrics are really accomplished).

I'll listen to most things but I must confess that I have a short attention span of trad folk "toiy an onion to your belt on this merry morning" type stuff. To illustrate my point, I give you Mulligan and O'Hare. I've never bought their work.


YouTube - VIC REEVES - MULLIGAN & O'HARE PART 1

[bubblewrap]

I must be one of the most mixed up confused people on the planet.

[Comfreyfan]

I think I see a pattern forming!

Do you think I could get a grant to research 'gardeners have eclectic tastes in music'?

[ailsasyl]

Oh Comfreyfan. Can I be your research assistant? Traveling all over the place looking at other people's gardens and (asking qustions on music tastes)