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

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

Queensryche. Excellent choice. What do you think of The Scorpions?

The stuff I like tends to be fairly evenly split, perhaps with a very slight male preponderance.

However... with country music in particular (a genre that in general I have a severe aversion to), almost every act that I can occasionally stomach has female vocals. but then, most of the female country musicians that I can stomach seem to have fuzzy genre identification anyhow.

[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