AUDIO: MUSIC STUDY – PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVER
New research involving more than 50 countries has found that different personalities flock to the same kind of music, no matter your nationality. A team from the University of Cambridge wanted to find out if different songs appeal to similar personality types across the globe. They came up with a playlist of songs categorized into “Soft Rock and R&B,” “Relaxing or Country,” “Sophisticated” classical, opera, and jazz, “Intense” like classic rock to punk and heavy metal — and “Contemporary” which was rap, electronica, Latin, and Euro-pop. The findings are based on more than 350,000 participants from over 50 countries and six continents.Here’s what they found:
– Ed Sheeran’s song “Shivers” appeals to extroverts.
– Neurotic types like Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen Spirit.”
– Agreeable people all like Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” or Lady Gaga’s “Shallow”.
– Open, friendly personalities like David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”.
– Conscientious people don’t like Rage Against the Machine.
The psychologist and musician believes the right song could help overcome social division and that music has untapped therapeutic benefits.
(The study is published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.)
* What they’re saying is, we don’t need to send arms to Ukraine, we just need to find a good song they can play over loudspeakers to drive the Russians into submission.
* So people like different music. Go figure.
* Concientious people don’t play Ed Sheeran in mixed company.
* I’m sure there are a lot of Country artists who are just THRILLED to be lumped into the “Relaxing” category.
CLIP: Oddly enough, there was one song that everybody just loved, no matter their personality. They could listen to it all day, every day. Do you that song is? Here it is.
