Musical tastes reveal personality type

At first I thought, no way this doesn't match my personality. But then, I thought, if you like more than one category, do the contradictory traits cancel each other out? If you do that, then I'm gonna say it kind of matches. But what's up with the personality types they mention? Surely there are more.

It's an interesting study, but another of those 'why bother?' situations. What do we actually learn from lumping certain kinds of music lovers into one personality box or another? The categories are way too generalising. And anyway, where's folk music on that list?

What I'm really interested is how they defined the music because people would say 'i like indie' but really the indie music they like is actually pop.

Furthermore, only 36,000 across the world was asked so I don;t think it is very comprehensive.

However, I do agree with some of the descriptions of those type of people.

So by bridging a number of genres - rock/indie/dance and classical music..some of my character traits must cancel each other out. Either that or I have multiple personalities.

So my preferred genre isn't even listed; what's that say about me?

No, don't. Never mind.

I don't agree. Why is rock/metal the worst one? Seems a bit stereotypical to me.

I love how every genre that isn't rock says "HIGH SELF-ESTEEM"

Though I'm an indie lover,
what does this "not gentle" crap mean?

out of the genres to choose from, i have to say i'd be part of "indie"

I feel as though the low self-esteem could be true. i know alot of people who enjoy the same type of music as me, and although they are not suicidal, they can get a little emo at times.

Creative is definitely something I notice with kids who like this type of music.

not hard working in certain respects...i know kids who just hang around and do nothing with each other all day, but most of them have jobs and work hard at that...so its here and there with that trait...

not gentle is also give/take...alot of kids are rough and loud, but a good percentage of them are quiet and mild...

cool article either way.

This is interesting. May explain why some people's taste in music changes throughout their life.

I wish this had more genres like Hip-hop, Punk or Techno. But I get the idea, its cool.

Slow news day?

I don't think they cancel each other out. There are different degrees of "liking" a genre. So if you are not die hard about a certain genre but you still like it, then perhaps you only retain certain attributes....?

Here's one they missed out:

OH, A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING A bit of a twat. Liar. Wants to please everyone. Probably wont be able to talk to you about any musical act that isn't on famous.

Yea, it might not all be true or be true 100% of the time, but I do agree with some of the categories. You can't deny there's something to that idea. What makes us listen to certain kinds of music? Do we listen because we can identify, or do we identify because we listen?

I call BULLSH*T

What about electronic music?

LOL. Reggae listeners apparently aren't hard workers. REAlly???? I listen to Bob Marley and I STILL have a job.

shit, i have to work and its 4:20??

Not today, Safeway. I Gots a bong to hit.

This is bullshit. I guess there isn't a single person who could possibly enjoy more than one of these genres. I listen to more than 2/3 of the generalized genres used in this experiment. I guess I"m: Creative with high/low self-esteem, outgoing but not, hard working but lazy, and kinda gentle.

What about those of us who traipse outside the mainstream? We can they say about people who listen to experimental, improvisational, or chance music (think John Cage)? What about hybrid genres (jazz-metal, folk-metal, symphonic rock, African blues, Brazilian samba-rock, roots-rock, Hindustani reggae, etc.)?

what does it say about me if i like raggaeton and duranguense(my friends call it mexican polka)?

I do believe there is a link between personality and music tastes.
Obviously what is stated here is a bit sketchy, but anyone could do they're own study about this.
I started doing it, a while ago, with a friend of mine. We analyzed the music we like, the interest we have in researching for the sake of it, and we also analyzed the difference between male and female tastes.
One of the clearest conclusions, or so I believe, is the fact that people who have a thirst for searching music, and listening to anything else than mainstream genres seem to be more interested in what happens around them, seem to be more spiritual, and also seem to be paying more attention to details.
I'm not going to write down all the conclusions that I came to, but it is really easy and fun to try and figure it out by yourself. Test it on your friends!
For me,it was and it still is interesting to do that.

I love studies like this that are based on, well, nothing. How does one determine if someone has high self esteem, is gentle, at ease, hard working, not hard working??? Obviously the prof had to rely on peoples opinions of themselves which are often (always?) biased and skewed to one degree or another. Using anothers opinion of someone else is even worse. Since it's literally impossible to get any objective data to work with it's impossible to get an accurate answer.

By the way, I like a little of each category of music (except rap) but not a lot of any particular type so what does that make me?

great, another reason for people to look at u and judge u just because u rather listen to ludacris or nas over white snake, even though there are some similarities in mine and my mother's personality (to a T), and i just so happen to choose nas over white snake (the song i was born too). hmm..

These aren't hard, fast rules on music and personality. They were just patterns that the observers noticed. Just because some of you don't happen to fit exactly in those categories, that doesn't mean that this whole study is wrong and invalid.

Yeah this study is not specific enough, I could have made this results up in the shower if I wanted to. Not to mention that there are sooo many genres left out. And what if I fit into multiple categories that contradict each other?

i like classical, some heavy metal, some rap. apparently im a mix of introverted and extroverted. id say this study was about as accurate as the weekly horoscope