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.)
Words to live by ;)
Let’s see. Very few samples, not at all random (volunteered vs. turned down), and questionable metrics.
...”they had fewer regrets”...
Sure, lots of immoral people don’t regret because they want to keep on doing the self-gratification without guilt. They can be in total denial that anything they do/did is a poor “choice”.
This proves nothing.
Not enough.
And today’s “conservatives” aren’t so much.
But the latest generation has no intention of working.
Add Rob Halford and you have the top 3. Even if we now know why he could hit those high noted the dude could belt.
I always liked Dio’s “Invisible”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-7YYm4DlJw
Well, mine’s down to my beltline.
Are always exceptions.
Doesn’t invalidate what I said.
It definitely weekend the backbone of society.
It was white people’s hip hop.
My husband’s hair is totally gone now! lol!
It fled down his back...
ea you just go right on believing that when it has been the soundtrack behind most of the actual labor that GEN X put out in the last 30 years.
That stuff didn’t get coded, built and finished listening to Too Live Crew. Motley Crue maybe.
What are you talking about?
Long hair is Florida in the summer makes no sense, so mine is cut a bit shorter right now, as I do every year.
I’m talking about the fact that all us evil metalheads built pretty much everything worthwhile in America in the last 30 years.
I defy you to find one industry that did not have an Ozzy fan or a Maiden fan or a Ratt fan or a Motorhead /Mmegedeth/Dio/Metallica fan in the head office, the shop floor or the loading dock.
TeH BROOOOOOCE!
You do realize that the metalheads of the 80’s are in our 40’s now, right?
We’ve worked, raised our families... many of us are grandparents saving for retirement at this point.
We’re not a generation of lazy ‘kids’. We’ve been grown up for quite some time now.
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