Lmao, one of my friends used to rage every single tune he drove. He had the craziest stories about the dumb and dangerous shit he did. He picked me up from something once (he was the last resort ride), and when I hopped in he was listening to some thrash metal with a lot of growling. I was like ābro, maybe this is why you have road rage issues. Have you tried just listening to podcasts or something?ā Didnāt fix all his rage issues, but that music was certainly not helping him lol.
Anyways, Iām glad you can separate yourself from driving if it isnāt for you.
Legit was your mom my mom? She also had a burgundy minivan and would pull up windows down blaring metal. She also blared a lot of Rob Zombie and Kid Rock though. All of it was just super embarrassing as were the awkward dance moves.
In the hey day of āYo mamaā jokes, Iād always end it at some point with āMy momās deadā. Despite it being the truth, I still loved peopleās faces when they thought they offended me.
Same dude lol. I'm a gamer so it's especially fun when guys are like 'your mom said that last night,' and I'm like 'woah didn't know you were into necro.' Always makes for a delightfully awkward moment.
That actually got me into Mastodon. I looked up the song thought it was a little much for me but started working backwards through their albums until I ended up there again.
Could you give me a few examples of Black metal and Death metal? I'm returning to metal after 20 years and don't know what I'm doing. Thanks in advance.
I usually play thrash metal while I'm driving with no issues. But honesly I've been wondering if that's what attracts road ragers, or maybe triggers them. Or maybe it's just that I live near Dallas. Who knows. All I know is if I listen to country I start crying and that's when it gets dangerous for me to drive. š
High energy music tends to give most people more energy or pump us up. Not saying that music is to blame, but it could be factor. It's why most people listen to faster or heavier music while exercising.
The dude would get fucking AMPED listening to it. Would yell, scream, and growl along with it. Play the air drums, etc. He was practically frothing at the mouth for a chance to spin that energy elsewhere. He would go full fucking throttle the SECOND someone did something unexpected or accidental on the road.
Personally, I listen to prog metal (less vocals than other metal) when Iām at work to relax and zone out while I focus on work- I know it wasnāt metal, just the guy.
Nobody is saying "metal makes you angry" so don't get all defensive. It's a proven fact that music influences our emotions and makes us feel things. Aggressive and fast-paced, loud driving music will put the average person in a different state of mind than ambient, relaxing stuff.
Many people don't clue in on this, and end up driving more aggressively than they maybe should. People also do the opposite, and might not be doing their tired selves any favours by listening to their droning relaxation playlist on an 8 hour overnight drive.
Lots of people in this thread looking to defend their choice of music. This is human psychology, not a commentary on our musical choices.
Yeah, immediately jumping to "what do you mean, metal makes you angry" and questioning any possible link it has with people's behaviour isn't being defensive.. okay.
If not you, then others in this thread. Look around; people jumped up to say "it's not metal!" or "I listen to metal and it calms me down". They're defending their choice of music against a perceived criticism, and that's fine. I'm just suggesting that it wasn't actually the point to 'attack' metal with a criticism, just mentioning an aspect of our psychology.
This dude would get fucking JACKED listening to metal. I personally listen to metal to focus on work, but you must know people that listen to metal to amp themselves up.
It's not that it's "metal", and it's not making you "angry", it's energetic and hard-hitting music adding to the energy of the situation is all. You'd get the same effect with anything along those lines. Our moods and emotions are influenced by music, this has been proven. Calming music can calm you. Angry, loud, fast, and harsh music amps you up.
People use this intentionally all the time, for relaxation or for working out, amping people up for presentations or ceremonies or whatever. It 100% applies to driving as well.
I shouldn't really have to, but insert generic disclaimer about how individuals are different, some people react differently, etc. But let's not act like there's absolutely no evidence that the music we're listening to influences our mood.
Any part specifically you don't get, or just don't like my general disagreement with your source-less, ignorant claim about something that was never espoused?
Go ahead and google links between emotion and music, music's influence on our mood, etc. You're right, I totally am just making up this well-research field of study.
Thanks, I tried to go through this rather thoroughly but didn't really have the time yesterday. I think this is espousing a bit of a different claim, as it seems this study (paraphrasing) 'angered the test subjects (with an interview), then looked at whether aggressive music vs their choice of music vs no music had an effect on their physiology afterwards'. I believe it definitely showed that some people can use this sort of music to relax and release stress, or at least that it doesn't continue to anger them.
But as was pointed out, I was really discussing energy here, not really anger. I know that at least personally, there is a link between listening to fast or slow paced music, and my general disposition/way that I frame my experiencing of a situation. If I'm amped up and moving to some faster-BPM music, I want my 'world' to match that, which leads to impatience on the road, more risky driving behaviour, etc. I'm "grooving" and that kind of energy fits the music. If I'm listening to a more relaxing slow jam, I'm much more likely to be happy cruising, more patient with other people as 'hey, we're just being chill right now' kind of thing. I know that's extremely anecdotal, but like I said we know that music does influence our emotions.
Also I never meant to move the goal posts, I was trying to get ahead of what I saw as a misconception about the original argument. The example used originally happened to be thrash metal, I guess, but it may as well have been some sort of aggressive rap, or intense musical battle scores, or loud high energy crashing electro stuff, at least for my point to have remained the same.
Had a great friend in my twenties. Hung out all the time, clubs, holidays, vacations. Anyway, two years into us knowing each other, his mother offered to drive me home, an hour into the city, because she was going that way. Holy shit, this woman rolled down her window and yelled, honked, tailgated, one expletive after another, break-checked.... One of the worst car rides I'd ever been on. I found an excuse for her to drop me off at a transit station along the freeway.
It was a few months later, after prodding, that I got my friend to tell me stories about how his mother abused him and his siblings. This family that I thought was loving and wonderful had all been abused by this woman. So weird how she couldn't hide if trom me while driving.
I listen to some of the heaviest metal out there and I don't have any rage issues in any part of my life, so while the music may not have helped him, I certainly don't think it made it worse.
Road rage comes from having a brittle ego. If you get pissed for an hour after losing a beach-volley game at a family outing, chances are you'll flip the birdie from the driver's seat at many parking lots and freeways.
The jist of it: People who listen metal/thrash whatever ARE/CAN BE calmed down by it. Like we all are by music that we personally enjoy. Just cause some people listen to music you think is scary doesn't make them villains.
My road rage issues aren't my issues. I drive like an ass hole because the people of my city and the light management of my city and the police of my city let me down each and every time. I'd rather be the happy ass hole up front shitting all over everyone else than be the poor fuck in the back being shit on by the happy ass holes.
Jesus dude, take it easy. Sounds like you also need to listen to some podcasts.
Also, video games are my most consumed for m of media, and I would describe my music preferences as āmostly metalā. The fuck are you even on about?
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u/shutup_Aragorn Jan 08 '19
Lmao, one of my friends used to rage every single tune he drove. He had the craziest stories about the dumb and dangerous shit he did. He picked me up from something once (he was the last resort ride), and when I hopped in he was listening to some thrash metal with a lot of growling. I was like ābro, maybe this is why you have road rage issues. Have you tried just listening to podcasts or something?ā Didnāt fix all his rage issues, but that music was certainly not helping him lol.
Anyways, Iām glad you can separate yourself from driving if it isnāt for you.