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This is a simple minded bit of bunk.

Some of musical taste is "cultural"; what were you exposed to at key turning points in your life. What you seek out is a better indicator of "personality".

If you like blues, jazz, classical, or folk music... ...then you are intelligent, tolerant, and politically liberal.
If you like country or religious music... ...then you are cheerful, outgoing, reliable, and conventional.
If you like alternative or heavy metal music... ...then you are physically active and a curious risk-taker.
If you like rap/hip-hop or and dance music... ...then you are outgoing and agreeable and generally eschew conservative ideals.

This list included that famous lefty boast "being liberal means that you are intelligent". This is the standard excuse trotted out when leftist bias is pointed out in media and at teaching institutions. "Well, they took those positions because they thought about them and came up with the right answers..." < /projectile hurl >

Being "physically attractive" is a genetic trait, not a personality trait.

Here's my personality breakdown regarding the type of music listened to:

If you've always listened to the music your parents listened to, then you probably follow their voting patterns too. You never felt the need to rebel against your parents to get a response from them.

If you are an adult and listen to radio to hear the same music you listened to in high school:
- Classic Rock Hits
- Moldy Golden Oldies
- "Contemporary" hits of the 70s, 80s, AND 90s)
you seek escape from the day to day grind by hearing nostalgic music that brings back memories of a different time in your life. Listening to old recordings doesn't make you nostalgic but if all you listen to are the top 40 hits or same old albums then musically you are in a rut. Do you only watch reruns of the shows and movies you watched while in school? Just because it's an old song doesn't make it "old". If it is new to you, then it is a "new" song.

If look at the "top 10" list to decide what kind of music to buy (unheard) then you are a sheep. You probably consult poll ratings to determine which candidate to vote for.

If you got to college and started to broaden your musical selection, then you show a drive for an independent spirit. If you continue to seek out your own audio pleasures (regardless of what others think of them) then you have fought against the grain and have an independent mind. If you stopped after college because you no longer needed to impress somebody then you put "enjoyment" on the backburner to focus on family and career. If you broke away from the heard in high school (or earlier) well bully for you. Remember, being different like everybody else doesn't make you different. The same tattoo and piercing "collectors" who claim that society judges them on how they look make the same prejudiced assumptions about those who have no tattoos or piercings. Kids may not want to wear school uniforms but (the right brand of) t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers are a uniform of a different sort. In "avoiding" conformity (actually rebelling against "authority" or the "mainstream") some end up in a clique with its own rules of order.

If you engineer your car stereo so the bass tones rattle the windows of the neighborhoods you are driving through (but don't live in) then you are starving for attention because your mamma brought you up wrong. I've got my own record collection thank you very much (including 78s and 1 Edison disc).

What you listen to relative to what others are listening to says much more about your personality than simple categories (country/blues/hiphop/"alternative" or "indie") ever could. What the heck is "alternative" or "indie"? In the 1950s, Sun Records was an independent label and foisting this alternative music called rockabilly on the public. Sun Records was also releasing gospel, country, hillybilly, "race records" (R&B and jump blues). Some of those songs are established "oldies" or "country" now whereas they were "alternative" and "edgey" in their day. Link Wray got radio airplay in the 1950s with his fearsome guitar instrumetal Rumble. He plays even noiser guitar today at age 75; is he "heavy metal"? Alternative? An oldies act? He plays too loud for some people in their 30s. Are REM, U2, and Red Hot Chili Peppers "alternative" or are they mainstream? It is a marketing term. Cool "is", genuine cool doesn't seek to have a label placed on it.

I've been listening to garage punk rock and roll since 1986 (when a few reissue labels started up; the records were available in the store across from my dorm in college). These songs weren't a part of my past. The bands got zero airplay. Certainly no one I knew listened to anything remotely like it (Madonna, Bon Jovi, Beastie Boys, INXS, etc. were the order of the day). In the late 1980s and early 1990s those reissue labels grew to issue recordings by new acts as well and yet they remained true to the sound in concept. Now Big Media is trying to usurp the names "rock" and "garage" the way they stole "punk". For heaven's sake... the 2-disc 1972 Nuggets comp (on Elektra) labelled 1960s garage "punk music" long before the New York Dolls or any other New Yorkers ever thought about stealing the word (let alone, England). The history of rock and roll has largely always been underground; "hits" are what gets played on the radio, it is more important who all heard a song and were influenced by it and how it changed their own sound or if it inspired them to pick up an instrument.

Classifications don't mean anything. There is good music and bad music and that's it. If you want to go by a label, find a record "label" that releases the music that you like to hear. You don't need validation of your tastes from anyone.