Music Defines you?

[Self-sain]

Ok, so I was wandering why dose this music you listen to define who you are? What I mean by this why dose you music choice determin your "label".
EX.

White or asian's who listen to rap - posers
White or asian's who listen to heavy/death metal - emo
Black's who listen to any forum of rock - emo, gay, white <-- as if white is a freaking label
White or asian's who listen to classical music - nerd

Ok first why dose race have to come in to every thing! (note I'm in US so yea)  and what dose it matter what i listen  to, note i listen to every thing so I've been labled a lot of these except the black one, I'm white and asian, or as I say Wasin.

And sorry AGAIN if i poseted in wrong section  i figured this would be rant

[Gen]

Because music is central in culture. Different people like different genres. I hope that was just a generic thing, cos its wrong lol. You also slipped past sexuality. I get called gay, because I'm white, chubby, shy, not popular, not mainstream tasted, not screaming the f bomb in class, and cause I dont do sports and make music which isnt rap. That and because I have a set of values. Just gotta find good people in the world behind the trendies.

[Grey_Wulf]

Because I'm a metalhead (slowly making a transition to rivethead too ), and I wear band shirts and a bikers leather jacket people I'm a violent drunk. For example, I could pick up the pace to ask an old lady for directions and she acts like I'm going to attack her, I don't even have any tattoos/piercings yet!

But I'm guessing I get this treatment for being a part of the subculture, it's a difference if you're just a fan of the music and all but still...assuming stuff or slapping these labels on does more harm than good.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

I somewhat resent you calling metal heads emo. emo is actualy a genre of music. heavy, death, speed, and celtic/viking metal is for metal heads and we get called satanic worsipers more than anything

[Gen]

Emo's a mix between punk rock and alt. that usually involves screaming and emotional lyrics. And he didnt say that metalheads are emo, Kit, he was making an example.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

ahh i retract my resentment

[Crazking]

I don't get the point of all this labels carp I mean I prefer to keep to myself I leave others alone I have priorities and I've been called absolutley every swear word in the proverbial book as well as countless taunting Nick-names over the years and I agree with all of the above. 

[flames]

Labels are just that: labels. They're worthless and should be torn off as soon as you've known the person for more than 5 minutes. People aren't clothing, or anything you can buy in a shop, we don't need labels because no mere label could ever tell people who we are. Labels simply exist for others to be able to make judgements and predictions about us with little knowledge about the individual, the label doesn't actually change the person or even be close to being correct.
Even if the label is "correct" and you think yourself to be whatever the label says, that's still wrong. For example, lets say some people label me as a computer geek and a furry. The labels are "correct" in that I do things that match up to people's expectations of anyone with a "computer geek" label and I do identify as a furry but that doesn't define who I am. It's like with your job: you may tell people that you're a chef or an author or whatever but that's not who you are, that's just your profession.

What I'm saying is that even with a million labels applied to you, they won't come close to explaining who you are and people shouldn't judge you based solely on the labels other people have applied, even if those labels are "correct". People are who they are, not what you think they are and not whatever you've decided they should be based on 2 minutes of interaction with them, if that. Labels are merely tools to help people identify others and make predictions and judgements, but they're inefficient tools that people have become too dependent on and now they're too reliant on their labels to actually think for themselves. Were this an ideal world there would be no labels, but it's not and society has become too attached to their precious labels to be able to survive without them, so we can't just destroy labels from the common social consciousness.
At the end of the day, if people are so shallow as to apply incorrect labels without thinking and make judgements based on those labels without even taking the time to check if they're correct or not, they're probably not worth your time.

Just my thoughts at the moment...

[josh_down]

music only defines you if you do everything that comes with it;

for example: i listen to a lot of punk music. but i don't go to punk shows, don't really hang out with any punk rockers, i don't wear any punk clothes, don't really do much that's "punk" except listen to the music (and dye my hair green lol) ... and i'm defintely not an emo

i listen to a lot of rap music. and i'm white... but i'd hardily call myself a poser.

i know a lot of metalheads... and i agree with everyone above me. they are most certainly not emo. emo was a term used to describe hardcore punk music in the early 1980s. (listen to rites of spring).


music does define you, but not into distinct categories.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

music only defines you if you do everything that comes with it;

for example: i listen to a lot of punk music. but i don't go to punk shows, don't really hang out with any punk rockers, i don't wear any punk clothes, don't really do much that's "punk" except listen to the music (and dye my hair green lol) ... and i'm defintely not an emo

i listen to a lot of rap music. and i'm white... but i'd hardily call myself a poser.

i know a lot of metalheads... and i agree with everyone above me. they are most certainly not emo. emo was a term used to describe hardcore punk music in the early 1980s. (listen to rites of spring).


music does define you, but not into distinct categories.

I would like to add to this that music defines us because it has a very strong influence on how we act.

[josh_down]

music only defines you if you do everything that comes with it;

for example: i listen to a lot of punk music. but i don't go to punk shows, don't really hang out with any punk rockers, i don't wear any punk clothes, don't really do much that's "punk" except listen to the music (and dye my hair green lol) ... and i'm defintely not an emo

i listen to a lot of rap music. and i'm white... but i'd hardily call myself a poser.

i know a lot of metalheads... and i agree with everyone above me. they are most certainly not emo. emo was a term used to describe hardcore punk music in the early 1980s. (listen to rites of spring).


music does define you, but not into distinct categories.

I would like to add to this that music defines us because it has a very strong influence on how we act.

hmmm... to a point. if you mean that if i listen to songs about killing myself then i'm gonna go and kill myself, then i disagree completely. i listen to quite a bit of depressing music, and i'm still very much alive. definitely not committed suicide. but i somehow doubt you mean that... could you expand?

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

it would be more acurate to say it afects our mind patterns and emotions and this is a scientificaly proven fact things like metal will increase your agression while stuff like gothic or emo will sadden you to a degree and trance will help you relax different music affects peoples minds in different ways

[Self-sain]

I would like to add to this that music defines us because it has a very strong influence on how we act.

Music some times can influence a felling, but not so much as a way you act. Ill admit if I'm listing to a song such as Break something I some times get pupmed and want to go "break something".. or some one, but when I listen to Dope man, I don't fell like I want to go look for the dope man.

And to be safe, I hope you all do realise that I do not condome any of these labels and that I was just saying I don't under stand why we have them or need them.

And when I put "emo" I wasn't talking about the genera, I know there's. That type of music. I was referring to what most kids (not goats , ppl who are young, and immature) refer to what emo is. An "emo" person is someone who is emotionally unstable and may try to hurt them self or kill them self. Its used a lot down in Florida where I live.


O and thing  last thing kitt said, heavy  metal actually helps me concentrate

[Gen]

Yes, but music CAN induce problems, emotional and physical. I had been listening to hardstyle techno in June and walked to a local convinience store. When I had reached it, I was paranoid as normal. I walked in, began to check out the candy and bad food. After about a minute, I can feel my heartbeat pumping fast, my legs were shaking, and my breathing was unusual and I HAD to get out, I was basically flipping out. Music can influence your body, but I'm not sayin itll make you kll yourself, just maybe freak

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

or make you agressive or depressed or calm