Study Finds Musical Taste Linked To Teen Angst

The Age is reporting that a teen’s musical taste is a good place to for parents to start when trying to figure out which type of fucked up your teen thinks they are. The study the report is based on was recently published in the Australasian Psychiatry journal and it links different musical genres to different deviant behaviors.

The report goes through all the different horrible things an affinity for a certain musical genre might mean, but is slyly wraps up the article with a quote from Michael Bowden, which says that musical tastes may mean nothing and that parents should probably just talk and listen to their child.

Of course, there’s no fun in that so here’s the chart that matches behavior to genre.

POP: Conformists, overly responsible, role-conscious, struggling with sexuality or peer acceptance.

HEAVY METAL: Higher levels of suicidal ideation, depression, drug use, self-harm, shoplifting, vandalism, unprotected sex.

DANCE: Higher levels of drug use regardless of socio-economic background.

JAZZ/RHYTHM & BLUES: Introverted misfits, loners.

RAP: Higher levels of theft, violence, anger, street gang membership, drug use and misogyny.

I guess as a teen I was a conformist mysogynist thief, who dabbled in higher levels of drug use while trying to confront my over-responsible tendencies without interfering with my gang membership. Of course I probably just joined the gang in an effort to counter balance my struggles with sexuality and my love for unprotected sex and to replace my need for self-harming with the need to harm others.

At least I wasn’t one of them fackin’ losahs who liked jazz.

Read the full report (and shake your head) here and then share what was wrong with you in high school.

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Via GvB

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