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Hello, fellow PC'ers! This is my first thread, so I'll try to make it interesting.
This is an idea that I've been kicking around for quite some time, through watching interviews, listening to the music, and reading the lyrics. I've come to this conclusion -- there is a music genre led almost entirely by INFPs, and that musical genre is "shoegaze."
If you haven't heard of this genre, it was a short-lived influential musical "movement" which began in the late 80s, reached its peak in the early 90s, and now has been revived by current bands. It involved, generally, softly droning guitars, a mix of male and female sleepy/dreamy vocals seemingly hiding behind the guitars (not in the forefront, but continuous with the music), and psychedelic lyrics focusing on either being in love, being in love, sex, being in love, depression, being in love, drugs, and also, occasionally, being in love. :tongue:
Why the name "shoegaze"? -- if it doesn't sound overtly INFP-ish already, here's where it is obvious. Well, critics of the era were surprised by how the musicians seemed to be so shy as to focus almost entirely on their foot pedals, and not make eye contact with the crowd often. So, taken literally, the word "shoegaze" was pegged on these musicians, who generally took it offensively and as an attack upon their more introverted, emotional, shy nature.
As a result, the media had a hard time promoting and advertising romantic, introspective bands like this, and it eventually lost out to the more extroverted Grunge and Brit-pop movements, getting forgotten until the last decade.
Artists pegged with this "shoegazer" label:
Ride
Slowdive
My Bloody Valentine
Lush
The Cure
The Jesus and Mary Chain
M83
The Verve
Given all this information, and my experience with these bands, they seem very overtly IFP, if not entirely INFP. Dreamy, swooning, shy vocals, abstract & melancholy lyrics, introverted stage performances -- "the scene that celebrates itself," as it was also called, was an almost completely INFP genre, I think.
But I'm curious what you guys think, and I'll let you decide. Here are a few songs/interviews. Tell me what you think! Agree, disagree? INFP, ISFP?
(Look at their eyes, always wandering around or hidden, shy
)
"The sun will blind my eyes, I love you anyway"
YouTube - Ride - Vapour Trail
"I don't know how you could not love me now"
Youtube - My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Youtube - My Bloody Valentine Interviews
"Alison, I'm lost"
Youtube - Slowdive - Alison
Youtube - Slowdive (Poetic Frenzy) Interview
This is an idea that I've been kicking around for quite some time, through watching interviews, listening to the music, and reading the lyrics. I've come to this conclusion -- there is a music genre led almost entirely by INFPs, and that musical genre is "shoegaze."
If you haven't heard of this genre, it was a short-lived influential musical "movement" which began in the late 80s, reached its peak in the early 90s, and now has been revived by current bands. It involved, generally, softly droning guitars, a mix of male and female sleepy/dreamy vocals seemingly hiding behind the guitars (not in the forefront, but continuous with the music), and psychedelic lyrics focusing on either being in love, being in love, sex, being in love, depression, being in love, drugs, and also, occasionally, being in love. :tongue:
Why the name "shoegaze"? -- if it doesn't sound overtly INFP-ish already, here's where it is obvious. Well, critics of the era were surprised by how the musicians seemed to be so shy as to focus almost entirely on their foot pedals, and not make eye contact with the crowd often. So, taken literally, the word "shoegaze" was pegged on these musicians, who generally took it offensively and as an attack upon their more introverted, emotional, shy nature.
As a result, the media had a hard time promoting and advertising romantic, introspective bands like this, and it eventually lost out to the more extroverted Grunge and Brit-pop movements, getting forgotten until the last decade.
Artists pegged with this "shoegazer" label:
Ride
Slowdive
My Bloody Valentine
Lush
The Cure
The Jesus and Mary Chain
M83
The Verve
Given all this information, and my experience with these bands, they seem very overtly IFP, if not entirely INFP. Dreamy, swooning, shy vocals, abstract & melancholy lyrics, introverted stage performances -- "the scene that celebrates itself," as it was also called, was an almost completely INFP genre, I think.
But I'm curious what you guys think, and I'll let you decide. Here are a few songs/interviews. Tell me what you think! Agree, disagree? INFP, ISFP?
(Look at their eyes, always wandering around or hidden, shy
)"The sun will blind my eyes, I love you anyway"
YouTube - Ride - Vapour Trail
"I don't know how you could not love me now"
Youtube - My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Youtube - My Bloody Valentine Interviews
"Alison, I'm lost"
Youtube - Slowdive - Alison
Youtube - Slowdive (Poetic Frenzy) Interview
