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Study: '80s Metalheads Turned Out Pretty Great
Newser ^ | Jul 9, 2015 8:17 AM CDT | Kate Seamons

Posted on 07/09/2015 1:01:36 PM PDT by Sopater

Heavy metal was the No. 1-selling music genre in 1989, and parents feared the worst: that Satan worship, drug use, loads of sex, and suicide went along with it, write researchers in the journal Self and Identity. Records were burned, "Parental Advisory" warning labels were born, and some '90s research suggested that teens who were into metal had a boatload of problems. And then decades passed. How did those metalheads turn out? Pretty OK, found the team led by Humboldt State University psychologist Tasha Howe, reports Billboard. It found that while middle-aged metalheads were more likely to have engaged in risky behavior as youths, they in no way differ from both non-metal-loving peers and college students in terms of "life satisfaction and current functioning."

To get to that conclusion, researchers surveyed 377 adults, both metal-lovers (groupies, musicians, and fans), peers who preferred different music, and California college students. It turns out the metal groups' recollections of their youth were "significantly happier" than the comparison groups', and they had fewer regrets (about a third did, compared to 44.9% of students and 51.3% of non-metal peers). As for why they possibly turned out like they did, the researchers point to a "kinship in the metal community ... a way to experience heightened emotions and intense connections with like-minded people, which seemed to contribute to their eventual positive identity development." This suggests, they write, that "fringe style cultures can ... serve a protective function" for youth. The authors do note, however, that "this was a community sample of relatively high functioning individuals who volunteered to participate," which may have skewed the results. (Another study found excessive headbanging could kill.)


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: heavymetal; music
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1 posted on 07/09/2015 1:01:36 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

Metal tends toward conservatism in my experience.


2 posted on 07/09/2015 1:05:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Sopater

Bet they turn out a lot better than hip hop fans.


3 posted on 07/09/2015 1:06:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Norm Lenhart

Just sayin’...,.


4 posted on 07/09/2015 1:07:09 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: Sopater

“Heavy metal was the No. 1-selling music genre in 1989, and parents feared the worst: that Satan worship, drug use, loads of sex, and suicide...”

Yeah man. Society has turned out so much better since 1989.


5 posted on 07/09/2015 1:10:33 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: wastedyears

Ping.


6 posted on 07/09/2015 1:10:58 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: humblegunner

If they wanna look at a group that had a problem, they need to look at the rave scene. Us metalheads mostly got stoned or drunk and except for the off their rocker black metallers who thought they were actual demons in Norway, The satanic stuff was pure camp, not serious. We also didn’t fry ourselves on a rat salad of acid, Heroin Ketamine and meth weekly either.

Sure we had our casualties but most of us made it out alive.

Sort of ;)


7 posted on 07/09/2015 1:13:51 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: cripplecreek

“Metal tends toward conservatism in my experience.”

That’s what was so insidious about it.

It was normal kids and young adults who seemed to be drawn most to it.

Thus dumbing down a generation of Americans who ought to be conservative.

It dumbed people down and increased anti-Christian views and increased weird religious beliefs in what would be the normative mainstream.

It really did have a huge impact in bringing about the “new Normal” nightmare of today.


8 posted on 07/09/2015 1:14:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Sopater

For years I was a big fan of anything Metallica put out before the black album. I don’t listen to it much anymore, and I’ve become a Christian.


9 posted on 07/09/2015 1:15:56 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: ifinnegan

You misunderstood. Many metalheads are todays conservatives.


10 posted on 07/09/2015 1:17:45 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Sopater; All

Let’s see hands of those of us who still have our long hair.


11 posted on 07/09/2015 1:18:09 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (We're gonna need more Benjamin Martins to hold off the Col. Tavingtons o'er the hill.)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; m18436572; InShanghai; xrp; Xenalyte; ..

Xer Ping

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12 posted on 07/09/2015 1:18:15 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Sopater
Records were burned, "Parental Advisory" warning labels were born, and some '90s research suggested that teens who were into metal had a boatload of problems.

And who led the charge?

Why, it was Al Gore's wife, that's who!

13 posted on 07/09/2015 1:18:38 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: RandallFlagg

I did until about 2011. But only Devin Townsend can work a Skullet ;)


14 posted on 07/09/2015 1:19:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: WayneS

Dee and Frank with an assist from Liberal John Denver set her straight though ;)


15 posted on 07/09/2015 1:20:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: cripplecreek

Yep.


16 posted on 07/09/2015 1:21:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Sopater

Having white men as heroes is no longer legal.


17 posted on 07/09/2015 1:22:54 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Sopater; wastedyears
Up the Irons!!!
18 posted on 07/09/2015 1:23:11 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: RandallFlagg

define long...


19 posted on 07/09/2015 1:24:30 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: ifinnegan
Dave Mustaine is no fan of unions or high taxes so he fled from California and bought a farm in Tennessee.



He also points to the Bible for his reason for opposing gay marriage and refuses to tour with some bands that he considers to be openly satanic.
20 posted on 07/09/2015 1:24:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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