How Music Reflects Your Personality

If you thought heavy metal fans were aggressive and blues fans were depressive -you couldn't be more wrong. A survey has found that our taste in music is a direct reflection on our personalities -with suprising results. Sky's Orla Chennaoui reports.

Listen carefully to this selection of music, because whether the cheese or chalk/ gets you moving, it says as much about your personality as your musical taste, not necessarily though in the way you might think. By rights, you would expect Joe Fylan to spend the evenings turns up to classical music. Chances are though he's out playing heavy metal or a rock which isn't that unusual according to a new study.

Classical music listeners are used to listening to good performances. If, if you're hearing, oh, that's it over there. Um, so people are listening for the excellence in performance, in metal it’s definitely the same, you know, you get these, go like "wow"...you know, "rock"...oh, oh, that kind of stuff...when the guitarist go...that kind of stuff is... And I think that's ...that's possibly why you...you might get some of the same listeners.

And it's their personality that seems to bring classical and metal fans together, both at ease with themselves and introverted, although metalheads do tend to be work-shy as well. As for indie fans, they typically have low self-esteem and are lazy, unlike their rap counterparts who have high self-esteem and tend to be outgoing.

And one of the interesting aspects to our findings was that basically the more you earn, so the more likely you are to enjoy a kind of really punchy, quite dynamic music. In contrast, it’s the lower earners amongst our sample of people who tended to like much more calm and much more relaxing music.

So Dozard's study holds wit.

Well, I think the researchers have also been camped outside my house for the last couple of weeks coz’ that’s meat down to a tee. Every night, I retreat to my lonely bedsit, and sit and do some life doing.

So I think there is much more to you than what music today. I don't think, no...

Kellen Jellars, I think, probably, that's sound, Kellen Jellars, I think. I hope I am anyway, so in that respect, I don’t have a fully support on hardworking. If my boss is watching, yes I’m, very hardworking.

It may not be an exact science, but it will please those prone to stereotyping, theatrical opera lovers, lazy indie kids, it's not prejudice. It's science. Orla Chennaoui, Sky News.

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如果你認為重金屬音樂喜好者攻擊性比較強，藍調音樂迷比較憂郁——那么你就大錯特錯了。最近一項調查顯示我們對音樂的偏好能直接反映我們的性格——但是結果出人意料。Sky欄目記者Orla Chennaoui報道。

認真聽一下這段音樂選段，因為無論是奶酪還是粉筆都不僅說明了你對音樂的口味，還體現了你的性格，而不一定是你所認為的方式。按理說，你認為Joe Fylan 晚上會聽古典音樂。但是他偶爾也會聽重金屬音樂或者搖滾音樂。根據一項新的調查結果，這沒有什么奇怪的。

經常聽古典音樂的人比較習慣于傾聽比較精彩的表演。如果你認真聽，就可以體會的到。所以，人們聽到是精彩的演繹。聽重金屬音樂也是一樣的。你可以傾聽歌手的演唱，吉他手的演繹，同樣可以體會到其中的精彩。我想這可能就是古典音樂和搖滾音樂有同樣的聽眾的原因。

是性格把古典音樂迷和重金屬音樂迷聯系到一起的，他們都比較喜歡一個人獨處，比較內向，雖然熱愛金屬音樂的人在工作中也比較害羞。對indie迷來說，他們不是那么自大，而且比較懶散，不像rap迷，一般自尊心很強，而且比較外向。

我們的發現中比較有趣的一點是，你賺錢賺的越多，越喜歡聽強勁的，有活力的音樂。相反，在我們的調查對象中，收入越低，越傾向于平靜的，輕松的音樂。

所以Dozard的研究是充滿智慧的。

喔，我想研究者們前兩周可能就駐扎在我房子外面對我進行研究了，因為總結的非常正確。每天晚上，我都退隱到我的小房間里面，坐著隨便做點什么事。

所以我認為這比音樂來說對你更重要。我不這樣認為，不……

Kellen Jellars，我認為可能是Kellen Jellars。無論如何，我認為我不完全贊成努力工作。當然，如果老板在監視的話，我會非常努力工作的。

或許這并不是太準確的科學，但是可以取悅那些喜歡陳詞濫調的人，那些歌劇喜好者，慵懶的 indie 迷。這并不是偏見，而是科學。