New research reveals that guitar skills in extreme metal music are more linked to male competition and status than to attracting mates. The study, focusing on heterosexual male guitarists, suggests that technical proficiency in guitar playing serves more as a display of dominance among peers.
I mean … yea … we knew this right? Just like body builders making it clear that they do it for themselves and not for sex.
It’s one of the wonderful things about metal … it takes all of the aggression and domineering instincts (that apparently tend to reside mostly in males) and directs them to something creative not destructive, something that can be shared not taken away, something that is (mostly) harmless not all conquering.
Just had a thought … egotistical billionaries … do any of them have any musical background? Like, do they play instruments at all?
I’d question the dominance thing as a whole. If you have two male pro metal shredders in a room they will not assert their dominance over the guy who just learned his first chord. Also they will not try to mate anyone… they will just shred until they get tired or kicked out.
Assuming that “egotistical” was not included as a way to no-true-scotsman out of answers, there are billionaires who are musicians, so there is nothing about playing music that makes one immune to pursuing obscene and harmful levels of wealth:
Diddy, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rihanna, and JayZ are all billionaires.
Excellent point