A new study linking music tastes to types of music has been released by Edinburgh, Scotland based University Heriot-Watt. Presumably tired of awful weather and with nothing better to do, over 36,000 people were surveyed and studied.

The results brand fans of heavy metal and rock as individuals with “Low self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not outgoing, gentle, at ease”.

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Anonymous wrote:

What in the hell is Heriot-Watt?

Also, I wouldn’t take this study seriously. Scottish “moshers” have a pretty bad rep and Glasgow is the stab capital of Europe, even moreso with Scotland’s utterly failing economy.

September 5th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

Horse wrote:

HA, what a gay study.

September 5th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

Anonymous wrote:

It’s true though.

September 5th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

Anonymous wrote:

I mean isn’t this a stereotype. So everyone that listens to metal is the same? Everyone that listens to country has the same traits? Everyone that listens to rap has the same personality. I’ve been to many concerts where I can see how people are very different that enjoy the same music.

September 6th, 2008 at 6:35 am

Joe wrote:

It’s pretty true, most metalheads you meet are the nicest people… then you have the people that listen to rap are typically the “full of them self tough guy douche bags” or “gangsta thugs from da hood” (and they’re usually white)

September 6th, 2008 at 10:05 am

Pat Burrell wrote:

i like how they lump rock and heavy metal into the same category, but separate indie from it

September 7th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

hikingartist wrote:

I say it is about time we identified the weak links in our society and exterminate these groups that drag our economy down.

September 8th, 2008 at 10:47 am

me wrote:

wait, so metal kids are gentle but indie kids arent?

September 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Nick wrote:

yea, makes no sense

September 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Kelli wrote:

Wow.

September 10th, 2008 at 2:08 am

Anonymous wrote:

Its funny how Metal and Indie are the only ones that really got negative results, but everything else was pretty much normal…

September 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Daru Jericho wrote:

Scottish people pissed off that their accents suck. Typical.

Oh and those results are rubbish.

September 12th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

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