{"id":676,"date":"2008-09-07T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-04T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T03:15:58","slug":"musical-tastes-in-tune-with-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/676\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical tastes in tune with who you are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>source site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/music\/story\/2008\/09\/05\/musical-taste.html?ref=rss\">Musical tastes in tune with who you are<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people who are at ease with themselves, which makes them very similar to fans of classical music.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the finding of a new study at Scotland&#8217;s Heriot-Watt University of the link between peoples&#8217; personalities and their choice of music.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian North, the professor behind the study, said he was surprised at the similarities between fans of classical music and heavy metal, especially their creativity and generally shy natures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The general public has held a stereotype of heavy metal fans being suicidally depressed and of being a danger to themselves and society in general. But they are quite delicate things,&#8221; he said in an interview with the BBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i thought this was a little peculiar that heavy metal are gentle creative people&#8230; interesting. i like a bit of rock, pop, classical and new age&#8230; so what does that make me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/music\/story\/2008\/09\/05\/musical-taste.html?ref=rss\">Musical tastes in tune with who you are<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people who are at ease with themselves, which makes them very similar to fans of classical music.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the finding of a new study at Scotland&#8217;s Heriot-Watt University of the link between peoples&#8217; personalities and their choice of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,381],"tags":[264,262],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-cool","category-peopleculture","tag-entertainment","tag-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}