Heavy metal fans get confused by classical music.

Whereas R&B fans get Shostakovich right away, its amazing!

Kess73 wrote: »

Glad to see there are experts like her involved in music. Funnily enough the station is not taking any calls on it :rolleyes:

They're trolling us cause they know we can't respond!

But yeah this kind of sh*t pisses me off to no end. Sweeping generalisations. And it's funny because I would consider metal fans to be more appreciative of classical than the general public. I think metal fans appreciate people who can play their instruments well and have a greater affinity for moving,intricate music no?

I think it can be paired with this genius:

Heavy metal music has negative impacts on youth

That is such bullsh*t. Will that stereotype ever be forgotten? Just listening to Jason Becker as I read this thread, sure Professor, believe what you want :pac:.

Actually, I wonder what this guy would think about metal music if he was around today.

I know very little about classical music, indeed some of it certainly does confuse me, and I'm by no means an expert on metal but if I know one thing its that this ROCKS

Oh no, the daily mail is on our side :P.

A couple of interesting quotes from the article which mentions a number of genres.

Psychologists have found that classical aficionados share virtually identical personality traits with 'metalheads'

It mentions that while metal heads tend to be introverted, they are both creative and at ease with themselves - which nicely contradicts the link posted by darconio. Of course this is still a generalisation and not necessarily true for everyone. I don't know what the professor mentioned in the OP is basing her view on, but at least this is based on actual research.

Almost all music fans were rated as creative with three notable exceptions - lovers of easy listening, disco and chart pop.

Apocalyptica. Nuff said.

Zombienosh wrote: »

I get mad confused when I listen to Dying Fetus and then put on some Ludovico Einaudi.

Pffft, minimalism.

/musicsnobbery :P

JBnaglfar wrote: »

[sarcasm]While I mention Jason Becker, he must have been extremely confused when he composed this. He was only a metal musician after all. [/sarcasm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A1G_Sg6bx4

That's... terrible. I'm aware that it's just a poor quality MIDI orchestra, but it's just not very good at all.

I am confused by Classical music because I never know if people mean music from the Classical period or do they use it, as many do, as an umbrella term for all music from the Common Practice period? Anyway, what she says just smacks of elitism and that's something I will not stand for. Also smacks of ignorance. Just give her one of those herbal chocolate substitute bars she enjoys so much to keep her mouth busy, and move on.

As the sassy disco chick Christine in Detroit Rock City says, "Good tunes is good tunes."

Speaking of total ignorance against metal, it's perceived effects and the other ills that accompany it (DRUGS! BOOZE! SEX! SATAN!), was anybody forced, like I was, to sit through this little chestnut in religion class?

Well its pretty obvious that when she listens to metal she dosent understand or appreciate it and thats fine, i have no problem with that, but to suggest that classical music is superior in some way to metal music is just naive on her part.

No music genre is better or worse than another, its all about preference. I think this pompous narcisist needs to broaden her mind a little if she wants to be taken seriously.