ras52 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [b] POP MUSIC FANS MOST ‘NARROW-MINDED’, SAYS STUDY[/b] http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/news/pop-music-fans-most-narrow-minded-says-study/ From most open-minded to least, here's the ranking: [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Indie[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Jazz[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Folk[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Country[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Classical[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Rock[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Metal[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Rap[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Dance[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Pop[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3]What surprised me what the relatively high ranking of Country fans, who traditionally are lampooned as being someone insular, e.g. "Both kinds of music: country [i]and [/i]western".[/size][/font][/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) What happens if you like more than one genre of music? ... not that anyone would obviously that would be ridiculous. Edited August 27, 2015 by CamdenRob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1440686560' post='2852974'] What happens if you like more than one genre of music? ... not that anyone would obviously that would be ridiculous. [/quote] There's no link to the actual study there, but I presume it was based on identifying an "X fan" as someone who predominantly downloaded stuff labelled as "X", and then seeing what else they downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GisserD Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 no funk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1440686914' post='2852978'] There's no link to the actual study there, but I presume it was based on identifying an "X fan" as someone who predominantly downloaded stuff labelled as "X", and then seeing what else they downloaded. [/quote] ah fair enough... so I guess it's a study of peoples who's prefered genre is one from that list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 So where would Placebo fit into their research? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgraff Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 What are they narrow-minded about? Where do they live? Country fans in Bible Belt might be a teensy bit more narrow-minded about religion than a folk fan from Andover! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysP Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I listen mainly to folk & country/americana stuff but I'm incredibly narrow minded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1440686914' post='2852978'] There's no link to the actual study there, but I presume it was based on identifying an "X fan" as someone who predominantly downloaded stuff labelled as "X", and then seeing what else they downloaded. [/quote] There would be lots of ways of measuring this. One problem might be that different methods of calculating the statistic might give different results. If I was doing it, I would count each download for a genre, and assign that a number between 0.0 and 1.0 depending on how exclusively the person downloading downloads that genre. E.g. if the person downloading a country track downloads country 25% of the time, then I'd count each of their downloads as a 0.25. I'd then take the average for all country downloads, which might be say 0.41. This might compare to pop music which might have an average of 0.51, showing that pop music fans are more insular than country music fans. This avoids the problems of having to classify individual fans as being a fan of a single genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subbeh Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 It's almost as if some universities have departments that exist only to pad out pages in newspapers on super slow news days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Thus proving that University isn't a waste of time after all. All that 'also bought' ad targeting is rubbish, anyway. I bought an amp stand, then for weeks got loads of ads for... amp stands. I'm unlikely to buy another bloody amp stand apropos of nothing, am I..? It would make more sense to show me something else I wanted to see, but not the actual thing. Such as, er... Drew Barrymore's buttocks. There must be an algorithm for that, surely..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1440689768' post='2853020'] Thus proving that University isn't a waste of time after all. All that 'also bought' ad targeting is rubbish, anyway. I bought an amp stand, then for weeks got loads of ads for... amp stands. I'm unlikely to buy another bloody amp stand apropos of nothing, am I..? It would make more sense to show me something else I wanted to see, but not the actual thing. Such as, er... Drew Barrymore's buttocks. There must be an algorithm for that, surely..? [/quote] Do you think Drew would be interested in a straight swap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1440689878' post='2853023'] Do you think Drew would be interested in a straight swap? [/quote] What, my amp stand for a look at her buttocks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1440689768' post='2853020'] Such as, er... Drew Barrymore's buttocks. [/quote] Functionally useless as an amp stand. But [i]could[/i] work as a guitar stand... H'mmm.... There might be some money in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heminder Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Indie pop is a genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='heminder' timestamp='1440690502' post='2853030'] Indie pop is a genre. [/quote] ...and people who listen to it are the broadest-minded narrow-minded people around. Or vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1440690148' post='2853028'] Functionally useless as an amp stand. But [i]could[/i] work as a guitar stand... H'mmm.... There might be some money in this. [/quote] What in marketing a series of guitar stands aesthetically based on various famous posteriors? ... I'd buy a kylie one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I have a fairly eclectic tastes but am very narrow minded in what I like in a particular genre. I got offered a try out for a .punk' covers band. "You know? Stuff like Linkin Park and Sum 41" My advert said 'Punk. Only really like UK bands 76-80. No Oi'. I declined. And what is an indie band? If they're signed to a major label? I don't get it. If they've sold enough product to be well known they can't be alternative either surely? I think I'm probably just an awkward sod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1440690640' post='2853033'] What in marketing a series of guitar stands aesthetically based on various famous posteriors? [/quote] Not 'based on'. The owners of said famous posteriors would make themselves available on a 'per gig' basis, their remuneration being based on their relative fame and the accomodative nature of their buttocks. Well, you can pay these people to come and open a supermarket or turn on the Christmas lights. Why on earth [i]wouldn't[/i] they want to hire out their butt-cleft as a neck rest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1440691972' post='2853051'] Not 'based on'. The owners of said famous posteriors would make themselves available on a 'per gig' basis, their remuneration being based on their relative fame and the accomodative nature of their buttocks. Well, you can pay these people to come and open a supermarket or turn on the Christmas lights. Why on earth [i]wouldn't[/i] they want to hire out their butt-cleft as a neck rest? [/quote] Bilbo could get Vanessa Feltz in to park his 7 string bass.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 I like the way this has swiftly travelled from "how narrow-minded?" to "how broad-buttocked?". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowhand_mike Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Nicole Shertsythingyinger would be capable of accommodating a whole bands set of guitars for the night, might work out more economical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowieBass Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Is it too early to mention Nicki Minaj? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 HI bAsschatterz! I am newb here so sory if stupid question? I read on internet will buttck stand affect finish on my Percision bass?? I worry if lacquer start peel off? Thank you, Cody Simkins. Scunthorpe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 If a range of bum gripper guitar stands were made, could the Hercules mechanical lever action be utilised to clench the cheeks as your bass neck nuzzled in there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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