Musicked to Death
Here we go again:
I listened to pop, heavy metal and jazz when I was a teen. So I suppose I'm a sexually-confused, satyrical, misfit loner who's a menace behind the wheel? I also listened to (and still do): techno, electronic, folk, classical, country, celtic, trance and pretty much anything else that isn't (c)rap. Man, it's a wonder I haven't already gone on a killing spree, isn't it? (N.B. - I have a List. Pray you aren't on it.)
Which is just a long-winded way of saying "I had to say something to justify the grant for this ridiculous pile of squirrel drool which I'm labeling a 'study.'"
Every decade or so, some "researcher" trots out this puerile claptrap about musical association with psychoses. Remember the whole "backmasking" hysteria? Turns out much of the windmilling and gnashing of teeth was funded, aided and abetted by the twin horrors of the Moral Majority and that walking parody of organized religion, James "I R talk 2 Gawd" Dobson.
You can't pigeon-hole a human being based upon their musical preferences. Journalists should know better, and the government shouldn't be funding such idiocy. Unfortunately, both of those hallowed (or hollowed, as may be) institutions are fair-riddled with ignorance, befuddlement and general intellectual malaise.
Now, having wrote all that...
Well... I'd be pissed off too if I had to listen to French rap. I wonder if it's like American rap, only with an irritating nasal twang and more body odor?
A study, published in today's Australasian Psychiatry journal, found that teens who listened to pop music were more likely to be struggling with their sexuality, those tuning in to rap or heavy metal could be having unprotected sex and drink-driving, and those who favoured jazz were usually misfits and loners.
I listened to pop, heavy metal and jazz when I was a teen. So I suppose I'm a sexually-confused, satyrical, misfit loner who's a menace behind the wheel? I also listened to (and still do): techno, electronic, folk, classical, country, celtic, trance and pretty much anything else that isn't (c)rap. Man, it's a wonder I haven't already gone on a killing spree, isn't it? (N.B. - I have a List. Pray you aren't on it.)
The study's author, Felicity Baker, said yesterday: "There is no evidence to suggest the type of music you listen to will cause you to commit suicide, but those who are vulnerable and at risk of committing suicide may be listening to certain types of music."
Which is just a long-winded way of saying "I had to say something to justify the grant for this ridiculous pile of squirrel drool which I'm labeling a 'study.'"
Every decade or so, some "researcher" trots out this puerile claptrap about musical association with psychoses. Remember the whole "backmasking" hysteria? Turns out much of the windmilling and gnashing of teeth was funded, aided and abetted by the twin horrors of the Moral Majority and that walking parody of organized religion, James "I R talk 2 Gawd" Dobson.
You can't pigeon-hole a human being based upon their musical preferences. Journalists should know better, and the government shouldn't be funding such idiocy. Unfortunately, both of those hallowed (or hollowed, as may be) institutions are fair-riddled with ignorance, befuddlement and general intellectual malaise.
Now, having wrote all that...
Some genres of rap music, such as French rap, were linked to more deviant behaviours, including theft, violence and drug use.
Well... I'd be pissed off too if I had to listen to French rap. I wonder if it's like American rap, only with an irritating nasal twang and more body odor?
posted by Jar(egg)head at 15:16
1 Comments:
My thinking is that the music you listen to is more of an effect of your emotional state and environment than the cause of it. Sad people listen to sad music. People who want to party listen to party music, so on and so forth.
Only people who are already emotionally unstable and would probably lose it anyway are going to be influenced by music ( a'la Charlie Manson) So please stop wasting money on these morons and send it to me if you feel the need to piss away tax payer money, I could find many good uses for it.
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