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[dherblay]

From The Minor Fall, The Major Lift, a link to an article about study by University of Texas psychologists matching pop-music preferences to personality traits. Being that I own more music than personality, this is a lot more interesting to me than Enneagrams. Here are the examples they give:Bob DylanBlowin' in the Wind: Inventive, solid, open to

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Musical preferences

[buffyannotater]

I have to say I like everything on this except the J.Lo (which I can't remember even just to hum)

You are a lucky man. I have her awful, awful "Jenny From the Block" monstrosity stuck in my head on endless replay 24/7. What I wouldn't give to not be able to remember it!

Interesting study here. I personally like everyone on the list except for Jennifer Lopez (refuse to refer to her as anything else!) and Barry White. Although I sometimes match the personality traits listed with him, his music just makes my skin crawl.

My favorite musicians are Ben Folds and Alanis Morissette. I'm not sure what that says about me, except that at times I love melodic piano music and mostly upbeat, but intelligent, pop, as well as at times discordant, angry and sad, emotionally conflicted alternative music. I also fully admit to loving Madonna and Queen. Again, not sure what that says about me, but there it is.

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I've got, cause I'm still hhmmmdeehmmhmm

[knullabulla]

Dangit!

Now I've got it stuck in my head! Thanks a lot cheerleader-boy! :-P

[knullabulla]

Also from the article, an explanation of why we like the music we do: "One possibility is that people choose a tempo of music that is consistent with the heart rate that characterises their current or desired mood."

Interesting... I always find that my driving always seems to match the music I'm listening to... if it's classical, then I'm going 30mph in the fast lane... if it's punk metal than I'm going 80mph through a school zone. So I try to keep the radio tuned to the jazz stations to keep it all in check :)

--Sheri