I am in favor of making a new horoscope. Uh, so one Artoscope. According to the motto: Tell me who you like and I tell you who you are. The countless studies that were made on the subject of cultural characteristics and correlation with personality structures are not said to have been for nothing. Lead yourself in all the shit, find out that Picasso lovers today Adjusted assholes are (at that time visionary explorers were in Picasso’s lifetime). That people who prefer to go to the ballet than in an experimental play at home like to fart into their armchairs. And that Taylor Swift fans are really reliable, loyal friend: inside.
From which artists: inside we have been “composed” in the course of our socialization, definitely says something about our character and our lifestyle. Nick Hornby already knew that when he formulated so aptly in “High Fidelity” in the best advertising textorman: “It’s not what you’re like, it’s what you like.”
If people only practice asking the right questions, so for example; What kind of music do you hear? Do you have a favorite film? Which book did you cried now? Then process like dating or flat-back castings should be tightly tightened.
Tatort fans are good roommates
For example, I believe that someone, or who likes to watch the “crime scene” regularly, has a number of properties that are highly welcome in every shared apartment. Because this person, for example, needs a certain penchant for routine and rituals, which could make living together with it in a way calculable. Then in the best case this person also likes other people, because looking together from the good old crime scene is here and there A thing. And last but not least, this person certainly has a big heart, because it has to be completely left over error in the plot, a leading staging and here and there something more hung instead of electrifying fresh acting performance.
In the best case, the classic “crime scene” fan is a person with a great sense of rituals and community and also with a high fault tolerance. In the worst case, people also catch someone who no longer realizes anything. Of course there is also a danger.
Radiohead fans may be something like the “crime scene” fans of the intelligence among the alternative listeners: inside. Do you like routine? No problem, since 2007 Johnny Greenwood and Thom Yorke have been reliably the same. You don’t think of valid stories? Here you are right, because, although nobody ranks what this singer actually wants to tell us with his lyrics, belief in the deeper meaning leaves the followers: Inside this band, just as little as York and Greenwood have been able to get rid of their preference for shaggy hairstyles over the years.
Care at Schlager fans
And I admit it, I have been jealous of many socialization and preference. A good friend of mine can watch seriously and without irony “Housewifes of Beverly Hills” and is also die -hard Bob Dylan fan. Spectral! If I only see something like the Kardashians from a distance, I get very tired arms immediately.
Here in Dortmund I recently met an old schoolmate who told me at the first meeting that he might and Mahler (he is a lawyer). And I almost fell for it. A little later I found that the guy went to the “hit boom” in the Westfalenhalle the following weekend. And at the same time I fell out of my hand at the same time as if it had suddenly started to burn.
According to the study, hit fans are either old and nice or young and then unfortunately unpredictable psychopaths.
It’s not that simple
What bothers me about the studies on this topic is the unimaginative grid after which the corresponding conclusions are drawn. These studies are equal to the fact that if people like something that many people like, this person is “less open to new things”, but is “socially compatible”. And if you like jazz and traditional music or Steve Reich, you are directly an experimental, misanthropic type.
Hm, well.
How about, we’ll look at a few other criteria?
Example: Anyone who still hears the band July as a mid -forty person is probably already a bit nostalgic, but may also like songs that deal with calendar issues and water.
Or: If you like the pictures of Hilma Af Klint, you may be less spiritual visionary: in as at a Waldorf school. Soft contours give you a comfortable feeling.
Series such as “Bridgertone” or “Game of Thrones” basically see people mainly because of the topic “Hair” (Hard to believe how many careers Hair Fuses). And Donna Leon’s books are easy for people with money who still want to be hungry.
So, again not as easy as hoped.
Good entertainment
For my part, I like strange music (we had already clarified everything), but but literature that every person understands, in turn from Nick Hornby, for example. In my DNA there are, among other things, “a Colt for all cases”, “the nanny” and “the gummy bear gang”, nor the paintings by anyone (at least I’m honest). And despite temporary employment relationships, if at all, then only a maximum of half a play. Clearly there are the Spice Girls, “Buffy, in the spell of the demons” and besides, and that has just come to mind, a very strange series called “Ocean Girl”, which I really have to see again.
It was about a girl who was friends with a whale and had a kind of mermaid. She was wearing a torn robe, swam under water for minutes together with her huge whale and always looked very friendly … At this point, however, my more meaningful association chain stalled, somehow nothing creeps into me.
But that doesn’t matter either.
In the end maybe Jim Henson, the creator of the “Muppets”, is right when he says: “Art is good when she maintains.”
And this fact may simply be bravely endured.