Our local newspaper has a Strange But True feature on Sundays. Here’s one on the list:
“Does music affect us more than we realize? A group of U.S. sociologists claims to have found a link between how often country music is played on the radio and the suicide rate of urban white men - and they say they’ve demonstrated the link by predicting suicide rates in certain areas of the country. Another group holds that analyzing the lyrics of pop songs can help to predict recessions. According to their study, the lyrics of currently popular music become more and more pessimistic as a recession nears.”
So what is it?
Country Music drives urban white men to suicide?
or
Suicidal urban white men prefer country music?
A classic quote from the Blues Brothers Movie:
Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.
SEE i knew there was a reason country was so bad, its a conspiracy i tells ya
Chase
wow…that’s amazing. I read a similar study once. they made different rats go through a maze while listening to two different types of music: rap or classical. according to the website, they turned out similarly to humans who listen to those types of music. after a few weeks, the rats listening to classical music greatly improved their time of going through the maze. but after a few weeks, the rats listening to rap music had already all killed each other.
So, country music should be banned from urban areas and replaced by rap. That would lower suicide rates and solve the rat problems.