Does Music Dictate Your Personality?

DemonClassY · **Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:40 pm Does Music Dictate Your Personality?**

It has been suggested that the kind of music that you listen to dictates your dress style and the way you are. I don't really believe that. I was wondering what everyone else thought about that.

Valathous · **Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:47 pm**

I would have to say a little.

Starbuck · **Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:02 pm**

I would have to say yes, because the more Marilyn Manson I listen to, the more gothic I become.

sabertooth1217 · **Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:06 pm**

Yes, ^ for that reason

Kate Janeway · **Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:38 pm**

I think it sort of depends on your personality - I mean, if you don't really care for any type of music, it really can't influence you, can it? For me, it doesn't dictate my life; I think it's more like it helps and enhances my life. It's a part of my life and therefore a part of me, but it doesn't control me in any way.

Sam Kenobi · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:40 am**

weird, I have this whole paper of it in front of me. it's from some personality test that my mom brought home for some reason...

(this is what it says, I don't know if it's true, it mostly is for me, but hey)

If you listen to...

Broadway showtunes or standards, you're "an extrovert" and have no trouble being in the spotlight

Top 40 pop, you're a "mover and a shaker", on the move and involved, with lots of energy

Rock 'n Roll oldies or classic rock, you're "steady and reliable", holding on to the family values you learned in childhood

Country-western, you're "all heart", a compassionate realist who puts love, loyalty and family first

Classical or Jazz, you're an "ace problem solver", enjoying the company of close family and friends, but also enjoy being alone every now and then

Light pop or easy listening, you're "stress-proof", usually having to get a lot of things done, but you can breeze through without distraction or stress

I guess that puts me everywhere... except being steady and reliable... which I think I am... so maybe I should start listening to some oldies

Gladiator · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:54 am**

I think my cousin thinks i'm weird because I change music types every other song....I go through the whole radio stations one after the other and I couldn't be happier

DemonClassY · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:45 am**

I personally think that music can sort of influence you. But the reason I started this topic was because I was thinking about the Colombine killings and how they said that it was Marlyn Manson's falt. That really pissed me off.

What do you think about it???

Leo Wyatt · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:12 am**

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. I don't like Marlyn Manson but he don't control nobody's mind and make them do stuff that they did not want to do.

I listen to Christian, country, and classic rock and it really does not bother me. I sometimes listen to heavy metal. THey say Ozzy was a cause i think it was a boy killing himself or something. Kids some really don't listen what the lyrics say. THey just like to head bang. I was once a teenager and I head banged to heavy metal. I never was affected by it. My mom always supervivsed what I was listening to back then. She would not let me listen to Kiss but I don't find nothing wrong. I don't think they are devil worshippers. even if they were it is none of my business.
Now its the artists that may influnece these young teenagers to dress half naked but not nothing wrong with the songs. If my kids started dressing like Britney and Christina oh boy she will get her hinny tore up first all I don't plan on letting Anna look at pics of them. I will raise her to the right way but I have to let her make her own choices though and hope she mkaes the right one.

Captain Dappet · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:00 pm**

You don't want your kids to see pictures of Aguilera and Spears etc etc? I have great method for that: Lock them in their rooms and throw away the key.

As for the question, yes it does. A little, at least.

Leo Wyatt · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:15 pm**

Defiant · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:18 pm**

Anyways, I strongly believe that popular culture effects everyone, whether you believe so or not. Its out there, and you cant stop it. I think that it effects my online personality more than in real life, but it definetly is there.

F13RC3 · Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 86

Absolutely not, for me at least.

I listen to HipHop and Rap, and i'm not a 'gangsta' or anything. In fact, I'm a very nice guy. When it comes to clothing, I wear whatever feels good. Nothing tight, I wanna feel comfortable. I never imitate, or wanna imitate, anything I see in the Rap Videos. So the music I listen too does not reflect who I am. I listen to it for the bits and mad rhymes and just cuz I like it.

Deciviel · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:29 pm**

It does a little for me. I usually listen to metal, and so I tend do dress in like blue jeans and black shirts, and either black shoes or boots. I like the metal-head look.

Metallica rules!!!

IntrepidIsMe · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:35 pm**

I'll say a little. But not really all that much to make a difference.
I have a few rap CDs, but I'm really un-ghetto,

So not especially, I guess that listening to certain music can change your mood, though.

Defiant · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:37 pm**

Pah-Wraith · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:37 pm**

I'm a Hip Hop, Rap and Ghetto Soul Listener and I don't dress like a "Gangsta" or anything, although I do wear Baggy Jeans, Pimp Shirts, American Football Tops and Leather Jackets so In a way I suppose yeah the music does reflect my personality

Defiant · **Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:40 pm**

There we go. Point validated. Man, ive been doing that alot lately...

Gladiator · **Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:22 am**

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Jeremy · **Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:31 am**

Personally for me my personality will affect what music I listen to, with the mood I'm in at the time also affecting it. For some people though, I think they are influenced by the music they listen to, and the artists that they idolise.

Leo Wyatt · **Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:26 am**

Music really don't affect me cause I am responsible for my own actions. But people are different so I really can not say about other people.

Pah-Wraith · **Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:09 pm**

IntrepidIsMe · **Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:29 pm**

Tsss, I'm just such a nice person,