Correlation between musical preference and intelligence/gender

General philosophy message board for Discussion and debate on other philosophical issues not directly related to veganism. Metaphysics, religion, theist vs. atheist debates, politics, general science discussion, etc.
Dream Sphere
Senior Member
Posts: 356
Joined: Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:52 pm
Diet: Vegan
Location: Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada

Re: Correlation between musical preference and intelligence/gender

Post by Dream Sphere »

I agree with essentially everything Lay Vegan has said on this. I tried to get some things across, but honestly didn't think things through enough to articulate my thoughts the way he put them.

On a side note, and the main reason why I'm posting this. I think it's a little misleading (though I doubt it's made intentionally,) to group all metal together as a single style since there's so much diversity in the genre. I feel similarly about jazz because on one hand you have some really complex intricate music, and the other you have easy to digest swing/dance music. I feel like one of the few genres which doesn't suffer so much from this is classical because of how homogenized it seems to be to me. Though, I guess some could stretch the definition to add a lot of stuff which might not really be as complex as baroque, but I feel like it generally has to meet certain criteria which generally make it more complex on average.

With stuff like metal, the only overarching characteristic I see is extremity in one way or another. There's fast metal, slow metal, epic metal, aggressive metal, relaxing metal, simple metal, complex metal, etc. and a selection of these are often taken to extremes in one song or another.

I mean, since metal is so broad is it really fair to have these in the same category?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fluBrwZCC8
Post Reply