Sunday, 14 November 2010
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Hip-Hop Fans Are More Likely to Cheat? Good Grief!
Great. Juuuust peachy. Just when I am happy for someone defending music choice, we have this study.Now, in hindsight, judging someone solely by his or her musical taste seems kind of stupid, right? I always thought there was something to guessing a person's personality solely on their music choice, but for the most part the idea seems silly. Who knew that the type of music you listen to can possibly determine your fidelity?
I went to The BoomBox.com for a little bored run through of hip-hop news, and ran into a newsreel that says those who listen to hip-hop are most likely to cheat or most likely to be open to the idea of cheating. Now, some of us are well-familiar with the fact that there is a difference between rap and hip-hop (i.e. Common, Beastie Boys = hip-hop. Lil' Wayne, Juvenile = Rap), but I'm going to let that go, for the sake of this collection. To somebody, that might not be much of a surprise, but dang! I listen to hip-hop!
Anyway, the site they collected this from was a UK dating site, which took a survey of 460,000 cheating spouses out of 540,000 members. Over a quarter of those surveyed, according to a PRWeb article, declared hip-hop over all genres as their favorite type of music.
"The site claims that [rap] fans are comfortable with the strong sexual content which forms a large part of mainstream hip-hop's rhetoric, and are therefore more relaxed and accepting of their own personal sexuality.", PRWeb says.
"As a genre, hip-hop has always delivered the most explicit lyrical content when it comes to sex, and listeners who aren't as comfortable recognizing their own desires may find a lot of the content embarrassing or objectionable. It makes total sense to us why hip-hop would top the playlists of our members." Greeeat. Surely, the UK is just the small sample of the whole (internet) dating population. Well, surely rock fans follow from behind, right? RIGHT!?
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Comments (17)
I dig old school hip hop, but I think everyone knows that at heart I'm a metalhead. And I declare this survey stupid.
Hip hop is popular. Especially if they're including rap in with it. Hence, a lot of people listen to it, including nice people and including douchebags. Hence, survey is invalid.
Yeah, that survey is complete bunk. First off, collecting data from a dating site is ridiculous, and there are better pools of people to choose from. Hip hop and rap are popular, so naturally you'll get a higher number of listeners. I don't think the music has anything to do with whether or not they'll cheat.
It seems far-fetched but believeable. People can get brainwashed by the lyrics. And hip/hop does promote sex with many hoes. Not generally speaking, though.
There's no correlation, only coincidence. This study is stupid.
correlation does not equal causation! bad statistics. also a really stupid and pointless survey. i'm sooo sure cheating would significantly decrease if people stopped listening to a certain type of music. -_-
honestly, that's just a degradation of romantic relationships imo.@laytexduckie@xanga - agreed.
i grew up on hip hop and even tho i listen to other genres now a days it still dosent make me go out there and cheat on a female.
this is like saying that kids who listen to shock rock will most likely kill people for fun. or kids who like Ozzy Osbourne are most likely to bite birds heads off. this study is wrong
I don't think it makes them more likely to cheat but hiphop music has some songs that make your booty shake and dry hump on the dance floor, so you are more likely to get heated up, then maybe go home with the person later
then again, if they they are that easy to begin with, it isn't the music, it is their own lack of self control.
This is a correlational study, not cause and effect. There is a correlation. A larger percentage of people who like hip hop happen to cheat than people who don't. Listening to hip hop does not cause cheating. Essentially, this study tells you nothing.
My boyfriend's into rap and hip hop in the worst way. He loves it. He also loves metal, though... his top two genres, I'd say. Anyway, most of the cheaters I know of are into pop rock and emo music, lolllllllll.
That study is shit.
DAYYUUUUUUUM, my boyfriend is a dancer :(
Did you just lump Common and the Beastie Boys together? The Beastie Boys can eat a big fat dick. Common is amazing though. But now that I'm done with that...
It probably has more to do with the types of people that listen to rap. If you're into lyrics about making money and fucking lots of bitches, that's probably what you'll do, regardless of whether you're in a relationship or not. Since this doesn't distinguish between people who listen to shit hop and people who listen to rap with actual musical and poetic quality, I'm gonna say most of the people who would be more likely to cheat are those that listen to and identify with radio rap. I obviously don't know if this is true, but it's my theory.
@Liquid_Pain_523@xanga - Common and the Beastie Boys are two different ballparks, that's a given. But, aside from BB's work within the post-punk and hardcore genre, they are still lumped within the hip-hop genre.
@AsylumBlue@mancouch - Agreed. I think it's more depended on the person. This is why I don't take statistics seriously.
@mynameisblueskye@xanga - Well, I wasn't saying they don't make hip-hop music, just that they shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath with someone as talented as Common XD.
All those country songs and PRE hiphop songs about cheaters? This is someone looking to ONCE AGAIN demonize a form of art(movies, music, tv, video games ect) as being the culprit of "making" people do things.
This is retarded.
@WhenHateIsTheOnlyOption@xanga - brainwashed? I listen to "gangster rap", so by that logic Im more prone to go kill cops and sell coke than anyone else who DOESNT listen to that kind of music? What about other countries where hiphop is only imported and not created locally/not even as widely popular popular?
I wouldn't even call this plausible. Interesting article, but not at all believable. What about back in the 20s when there WERE no really explicit/suggestive lyrics? If we did a study would it show there was no infidelity back then? Haha or back in ancient greece?
All the cheaters I know did listen to rap. The guy I'm with hates rap, he's a metal head and he has never cheated. I've gotten sick of hip hop but alot of the guys and girls who I know who listen to it cheat or just sleep around. The survey is probably shit but I can see some truth to it and rock fans are further behind. Look at pop fans they'd probably be next on the list.