Do you have an open mind for music?

Screw open mindedness. All I wanna do is listen to Perry Como! 

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: So, if I have an undefined taste and like Rap, Hip Hop, Disco, Trance, Raeggeton and Boys/Girls bands I'm less open minded than if i like Prog specially, but listen other genres ocassionally?   Absurd.   Iván

This is an interesting point which I have often thought about. The more genres someone listens to the more likely some people could assume that the person has an "undefined" taste. Of course this is wrong ... it might be undefined, it might be carefully chosen, there's no way to tell just from the list of genres.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Bluesaga wrote: If you think about it, this is kind of flawed.  I mean, somebody could only listen to really popular bands that are from totally different genres, like 50 cent, the beatles, RHCP, linkin park, rammstein, etc. requiring little open-mindedness as compared to somebody who specializes in an unpopular genre, for example avant jazz.  I don't think that someone who specializes in any particular genre could be called open minded. Popular or unpopular ... doesn't matter IMO, the more narrow your bandwidth of acceptable styles is, the more narrow/closed minded you are IMO. And don't you think that Avant Jazz is any better than Rap!

Well, as many things, what qualifies one as being open-minded is truly subjective and varies based on how one defines open-mindedness.  These charts reflect a user's palette of musical genres, but if you consider open-minded to be the dictionary.com definition of "having or showing a mind receptive to new ideas or arguments," then open-mindness is how unique or unconventional one's tastes are.  Regardless, the statistics are an interesting way to see music habits by genre breakdown, but I just don't entirely agree with the open/closed minded graph.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: This is an interesting point which I have often thought about. The more genres someone listens to the more likely some people could assume that the person has an "undefined" taste. Of course this is wrong ... it might be undefined, it might be carefully chosen, there's no way to tell just from the list of genres.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ So do I have a undefined taste simply because I just listened to The Eagles, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Secret Chiefs 3 and Le Orme?

Typical OMI values:
Below 20:	an extremely small bandwidth of tags; a faker or fanatic of an artist
20 - 39:	a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a specific tag
40 - 59:	a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a few types of music
60 - 79:	a substandard of bandwidth of tags
80 - 89:	a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little below the average
90 - 99:	a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean
100 - 109:	a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little above the average
110 - 129:	a high bandwidth of tags
130 - 149:	a very high bandwidth of tags; truly open minded
above 150:	an extremely high bandwidth of tags; an absolute freethinker and freak

Edited by tardis - October 28 2007 at 21:46

Do I win a prize?

I seriously think all of this is utter bullsh*t. Being "open minded" doesn't mean you have to hear a small percentage of every genre known to man and not specialized into a genre. On the contrary, being "narrow minded" is not the same as listening a lot of your favorite genre and just a little of others.

Edited by The T - December 18 2007 at 14:28

I know...I drunk too much caffeine today....

I actually like this service ... and please don't take it so seriously, they have to work with the data which last.fm provides, and that's the tags which the user create.