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rive gauche:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---
Metalheads are geeks with attitude and a bit of belligerence who know in their hearts that all men play on ten.
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I.LOVE.YOU.
Hahaha.. that is probably the best thing anyone has ever said.
SpacemanSpiff:
I'm not sure whether I'm the only one who has ever encountered that, but the dim perception most people have of the whole metal culture can also work against you if you're not even part of it.
I for example have rather long hair and I don't listen to pop. So basically, in the eyes of most people, I listen to metal. I never knew having long hair automatically means one has to love metal, but apparently it does.
I mean, I understand that people who have never even tried to listen to something that does not appear in the charts would assume that I am metal, being that it's the only "subculture" they know, but what completely confuses me is that I was asked by people who listen to metal whether I also liked it, on the accoun that I am wearing a band shirt (At the Drive-In are metal now? Did I miss a meeting?) and have longer hair.
The fact that metal is more popular in eastern Europe might be because studies have shown that these people can handle more complex music because they're used to it. In our culture, the 4/4 rhythm dominates everything and people already have trouble understanding a simple change from 3/4 to 4/4. Tell them to clap that, they probably couldn't. They probably couldn't even manage a 2/4 beat.
In eastern Europe, you have traditional dances that were not 4/4-based, say polka (2/4) or polka-mazurka (3/4). So I figure, to them, metal is less annoying because it requires less effort listen to (on the whole).
The same applies to South America, by the way. People there are also able to handle more complex rhythms, from what I've read.
zmeiat_joro:
Bulgarian folk music uses things like 7/8, 9/8, 15/16, but I have only a vague idea what thet means. Also I don't know if that makes people like metal more... So I can't say anything useful. I shut up.
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