Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting
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“The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent “metalheads” are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.”
Hmm. Last 5 Songs my iPod played were:
In Flames - System
Slipknot - Surfacing
Lamb of God - More Time To Kill
Fight - Vicious
Broken Hope - Earth Burner
It was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in high school that saw my music taste change from top 40 KIIS FM (Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul (Heh Rini), Amy Grant etc…) to metal KNAC (Slayer, Fear Factory, Megadeth, Metallica). I’m not exactly sure what triggered the change, but something said “Hey.. you. Check this shit out. You’ll never look back.” Even to this day, my wife says that by looking at me, you wouldn’t know that I enjoy the hard side of the rock. You know, the Double-Bass-Cookie-Monster-Death-Metal type. Six Feet Under, The Crown, At The Gates, Cryptopsy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Face Down, what the majority of the planet would listen to and say “That’s not music!”
Last Summer Classic Iggy gave me shit for listening to an iPod at a Blogger event by saying, “Headphones at a blogger tournament? You are a douchbag.” I replied back, “Do I get any bonus points for listening to Death Metal?”
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March 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
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