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Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Genre of Music Is Your Soul Made Of? Rock · Soul · Hip-Hop · Jazz
Eight specific questions: what you put on when you get the aux, the album you have played more than any other, the ticket you would pay the most for, the music opinion you would defend to anybody. Answer them and we will tell you which of these four you are built out of. Four genres, four completely different jobs that music can do for a person.
🎸Rock(Guitars and Anthems)
🎤Soul(Motown and Stax)
🎧Hip-Hop(Bars and Beats)
🎷Jazz(Blue Note and Beyond)
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What grabs you in the first five seconds of a song? Think of the last one that stopped you dead.
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What do you put on when you get the aux at a party? One shot, and everybody is listening.
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What do you use music for most? Be honest about where it goes in your day.
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What is the album you have played more than any other? Check the play count if you have to.
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Which ticket would you pay the most for? Money is no object, the venue is.
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What music opinion would you defend to anybody? Everybody has one they will not drop.
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How do you find music you have never heard? The way you found the last thing you loved.
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What should a song leave behind? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your genre.
Needle Down Your Soul Is Made Of…
Four genres, four completely different jobs that music can do for a person. Here is the one you are built out of, what it says about how you feel things, and where to start if you want more of it.
Rock
Your soul runs on volume. Rock is the genre that turns a feeling into something you can shout in a room full of strangers, and you have never once seen the point of keeping the emotion small.
- You feel things at full size and you want the music to match, which is why a riff can do more for you than a paragraph.
- The whole genre rests on one very old trick, which is a guitar figure so good that everybody in the building recognises it in two seconds.
- Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman both made enormous money by putting that feeling on a cinema screen, and both climaxed with a live performance for good reason.
- You would rather a song with a flaw in it than a perfect one that leaves you sitting still.
Soul
Your soul runs on feeling, delivered by a voice. Soul music never hides behind cleverness, which is why it lands harder than almost anything else and why it has aged better than most of what came after it.
- You want to be moved rather than impressed, and a performance that holds something back will always leave you cold.
- Motown and Stax built the modern pop song between them, and almost every chorus written since owes one of them something.
- Summer of Soul unearthed footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that sat in a basement for fifty years, and it won the Oscar for best documentary.
- You are the friend people play a song to rather than explain themselves to, because they know it will land.
Hip-Hop
Your soul runs on words. Hip-hop is the only major genre where the writing is the main event, and you are somebody who notices the turn of phrase before you notice anything else in the room.
- You listen for what somebody is telling you, and a song with nothing to say will lose you inside thirty seconds.
- Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for DAMN. in 2018, the first time the music award went outside classical or jazz.
- Straight Outta Compton made more than two hundred million dollars by taking the genre's origin story seriously as cinema.
- You keep lines the way other people keep photographs, and you can still recite ones you first heard as a teenager.
Jazz
Your soul runs on the thing nobody planned. Jazz is the one genre built around the idea that the best moment of the night has never happened before and will never happen again, which is a fairly demanding way to love music.
- You are drawn to the strange choice over the obvious one, and you would rather be puzzled than comfortable.
- Kind of Blue was recorded in two sessions in 1959 with almost nothing written down, and it remains the best selling jazz record ever made.
- Whiplash and Soul are two of the best films made about any kind of music, and neither could have been about another genre.
- You are patient with a record in a way most people are not, and the ones you love took months to open up.
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