Vocal Bias?

[jackofallgeeks]

So, a friend of mine just observed that she has a strong bias toward female vocals in music: most of her music features female vocalists and in genres she's not a fan of (she notes Country) she's more forgiving of female vocals. She does like some male vocals, but notes they're a distinct minority.

I've never thought about it, but it occurs to me that I'm just the opposite. Most of the artists I like, particularly the ones I consider my favorites (VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Queensryche, Savatage) have male vocals. Some artists I like feature female back-ups, but none of my favorites. In genres I'm not a particular fan of, I think it's split fairly evenly between male and female vocals, though I think there's a slight bias toward male vocals.

So, now I'm curious: is there any pattern to this?

(After getting so responses, it occurs to me that I should have had "I am mostly attracted to: Men, Women, No One, Everyone Equally" instead of using labels like Straight, Gay, Bi, or the ever-nebulous Other. Ah well, I'll try to keep that in mind next time I'm pigeon-holing sexuality.)

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Comments

[otakulk.livejournal.com]

You know, I like how LJ shows you the precentage of the results, but can you run them through a stat program and see if any statistical correlations arise? Specifically I am interested in correlations between gender and perfered gneres

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I know. I don't think it even tracks users through questions, it just tallies up the responses -- so the only way I have to see what guys are biased is to note which users said they were guys and then see what those users answered for their bias. To get anything statistical out of an LJ-poll you'd have to do the number entry and number crunching yourself.