Thursday, October 2, 2008
Update in the Brief: CrySpace Safari
I decided to do a bit of a pseudoscientific experiment: Make a “quiz” for people to determine “what metal band” they are. In actuality, it was so I could determine what average people favor in “metal”. That is, plastic-lifestyle radio metal.
One thing I forgot to factor into the quiz results were the people who would prefer music for things other than appearance. This experiment assumes that these people were intelligent enough to find this quiz stupid and unappealing, and so they would close it immediately and reconsider why they were wasting their time taking quizzes on myspace.
To the date of this article’s writing, 208 people have willingly participated in this experiment. At least 5 of those people were upset enough by the truth behind their results to leave some tasteless (but otherwise amusing) comments, and rightly so. I’d pin the blame on whoever I could if I discovered that I had poor taste in metal.
Here are some of the responses that people made after receiving their ever-so-accurate results:
The hilarious thing is that most of the complainers are women. Correct me if I am wrong and being a sexist, chauvinist asshole (LOL), but females who are into metal (or any music, for that matter) often treat it as a lifestyle thing, and not an artform. So any insult to their lifestyle is a direct attack on their ego.
More on this fun-tastic quiz later. Have some Electro Hippies.
