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.

参考中文翻译：

如果你认为重金属音乐喜好者攻击性比较强，蓝调音乐迷比较忧郁——那么你就大错特错了。最近一项调查显示我们对音乐的偏好能直接反映我们的性格——但是结果出人意料。Sky栏目记者Orla Chennaoui报道。

认真听一下这段音乐选段，因为无论是奶酪还是粉笔都不仅说明了你对音乐的口味，还体现了你的性格，而不一定是你所认为的方式。按理说，你认为Joe Fylan 晚上会听古典音乐。但是他偶尔也会听重金属音乐或者摇滚音乐。根据一项新的调查结果，这没有什么奇怪的。

经常听古典音乐的人比较习惯于倾听比较精彩的表演。如果你认真听，就可以体会的到。所以，人们听到是精彩的演绎。听重金属音乐也是一样的。你可以倾听歌手的演唱，吉他手的演绎，同样可以体会到其中的精彩。我想这可能就是古典音乐和摇滚音乐有同样的听众的原因。

是性格把古典音乐迷和重金属音乐迷联系到一起的，他们都比较喜欢一个人独处，比较内向，虽然热爱金属音乐的人在工作中也比较害羞。对indie迷来说，他们不是那么自大，而且比较懒散，不像rap迷，一般自尊心很强，而且比较外向。

我们的发现中比较有趣的一点是，你赚钱赚的越多，越喜欢听强劲的，有活力的音乐。相反，在我们的调查对象中，收入越低，越倾向于平静的，轻松的音乐。

所以Dozard的研究是充满智慧的。

喔，我想研究者们前两周可能就驻扎在我房子外面对我进行研究了，因为总结的非常正确。每天晚上，我都退隐到我的小房间里面，坐着随便做点什么事。

所以我认为这比音乐来说对你更重要。我不这样认为，不……

Kellen Jellars，我认为可能是Kellen Jellars。无论如何，我认为我不完全赞成努力工作。当然，如果老板在监视的话，我会非常努力工作的。

或许这并不是太准确的科学，但是可以取悦那些喜欢陈词滥调的人，那些歌剧喜好者，慵懒的 indie 迷。这并不是偏见，而是科学。