Intelligent Life On Planet Rock
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Posted by Gatz on 5 September 2008 - 7:37am.
It's the tail end of the silly season and the BBC has come up with one of those academic studies which tell us nothing which we wouldn't already regard as axiomatic.
This time it's music and personality.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7598549.stm
Prof North, who lead the study says, "The general public has held a stereotype of heavy metal fans being suicidally depressed and of being a danger to themselves and society in general. But they are quite delicate things." No professor, that's not the 'general public', it's just you.
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Interesting study but...
I don't think you can describe someone who likes only one kind of music as creative. In fact do such people exist? I don't know any.
Precisely Sir.
I was surprised that no one seemed to suggest that 'Indie' fans could also like 'Country' and that 'Heavy Metal' fans might also be partial to a bit of 'Rock and Roll'. A ridiculous survey and an utter waste of time. ( Unless, of course, one might be cynical enough to suggest that it was something of a recruitment drive for Clearing students by Heriot Watt University ).
I'm sorry, Niks, but to my mind that's utter rot
Of course somebody who only likes one kind of music can be creative. If it came to them trying to write music, they would, i suppose, be limited to the influences of the genre with which they were familiar, but an inability to function/create at the composition side, isn't a given.
Nor is an inability to excel, by the way.
Mind you, like yourself, i don't actually *know* anybody who only likes one kind of music...
I agree
And I do know someone like that: an extremely talented graphic designer/artist/illustrator/animator who is 110% Indie. It drives me nuts that he won't listen to anything else, but there you go.
Also: I would guess it's fairly common for people to only develop broad taste as they get older and become less tribal, musically speaking.
Yeah, but
what's 'indie'?
For all that most of us could say we know what's meant by 'indie' it's still not a homogenous palate of sounds. There's folky indie, there's metaly indie, dancey indie, there's indie-schmindie, jingly-jangly bumhead indie, punky-indie, singer-songwritery indie*... and even those descriptions are inherantly lacking in proper decriptive terms.
Unless, of course, you mean someone who only listens to Wedding Present-eque indie. Which would indeed suck like a Dyson.
* Don't worry if you haven't heard of all of these types of indie; they are all completely real and definitely not made up or anything.
In this case
I mean indie in a leather satchel/hair slide/Belle & Sebastian kind of way.
Oh.
Fetch the Hoover!
Good fact
Technically Britney Spears' first few albums were on Jive which was an independent record label until it was bought by Zomba in about 2002. So "...Baby One More Time" is an indie single?
Well
I guess your freind may prove me wrong. But surely it must require some pretty stubborn narrow mindedness to only listen to one kind of music.
According to this survey your freind, apart from being creative, suffers from low self esteem, is lazy and possibly violent. Does any of that hold true?
Let's see
low self esteem: no more than most people in their twenties
lazy: no
violent: no
He may be narrow-minded, perhaps even stubbornly so, but it definitely doesn't seem to have any bearing on his creativity.