In what may come as a shock to approximately no one, researchers in a recent study were apparently able to "get fairly accurate predictors of lifestyle choices based solely on musical factors," where lifestyle choices includes propensity for drug use. OK, maybe there are one or two surprises - for instance, if you've got some mistaken impression of classical music lovers as being too stuffy to get high, think again, as "more than a quarter of classical music fans have tried cannabis."
A blogger for the Minneapolis / St. Paul City Pages helps summarize the research, adding these details:
- People who liked musicals took the least amount of drugs and committed the fewest criminal acts. Also, they drink less and are near the top in charity work performed. Note to self: listen to more showtunes to embrace the better angels of one's nature.
- Fans of hip hop and dance music are likely to have had multiple sex partners and were top-ranked in terms of drugs taken. Or bottom-ranked, depending on one's perspective. Point being: "It comes out in the study that, in these types of music, fans score worse in various behaviours, such as criminality, sexual promiscuity and drug use," said Dr. North.
All I will say is that I have listened to my fair share of show tunes in my day, and that didn't seem to have any impact on anything other than my ability to attract friends.
Of course, the City Pages blogger goes a little off the track toward the end of his post:
If they had only broken down more specifically what kind of drugs were taken by fans of what music genre, we might have had some interesting results. Pure speculation: metal = meth. Techno? Ecstacy. Radiohead? Nyquil and ketamine.
I can see the ketamine / Radiohead connection, but please, can we not sully that combination with even the implication that Nyquil would be welcome to that party? In the meantime, any show tunes lovers out there feeling the pain of being singled out as "the most mild-mannered group, with the lowest level of drug-taking and criminal acts"?
Dis beast only comes out when it is 25 degrees below zero
if you just doing bumps and attempting conversation with people then yeah- synth is the way to go, but k-holing is a much better use. i recon you need to try it, you obviously havn't explored the possibilities and are definitely missing out!!!
Rock => Liquor and Weed
Country => Budweiser and Meth
Techno => Acid and Weed
Metal => Speed and Weed
Opera => Wine and Weed
Folk => Weed
Emo => Estrogen
House => MDMA and Weed
New Wave = > Coke and Booze
Muzak => GHB
acid house = ACID
gabber = SPEED
radiohead = i dunno, what's the most pretentious drug around??
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