Your guide to musical profiling
Do you have low self-esteem? Are you a lazy asshole? It's because you've been listening to too damn much indie rock, ya pansy! Perhaps some opera or "chart pop" is the cure, as prescribed by an asinine study conducted by some guy who probably spends his free time calling people on Internet message boards "hipster douchebags." Actually, he's Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he's concluded that musical tastes and personality type are closely related based on his study of 36,000 people–or approximately .00047 percent of the world's population–resulting in hilarious observations such as: "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." Other highlights: Reggae fans are not hardworking–and what other variable could possibly affect that causal relationship?–and those who gravitate toward dance music are "not gentle."