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Does your style match your taste in music?

post #1 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:17am
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Inspired by the recent WYWT talk about listening to this, whearing that, its time to get to the bottom of this.

My style as a teen and early 20s was heavily inspired by music (goth - black shit, hip hop - street... yes), but now adays it seems like the obvious connection is gone. For instance, i wore yesterdays popsicle lfit while I listened to say Immortal, Satie, Johnny Cash and Ghostface. I guess cash would be the more obvious style-wise match with my reg lazy jeans and chambray/plaid shirt approch, but it doesnt really go beyond that I think.

So, is there a connection between how you look and what you listen to?
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post #2 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:27am
not a slight bit.
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post #3 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:37am
not at all.
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post #4 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:40am
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^^Really informative guys, way to get the conversation going!
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post #5 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:42am
What would be considered goth-ninja music?
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post #6 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:45am
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^^you tell me. I would imagine some hard electronic shit, but dont know. What does RO listen do?
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post #7 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:51am
No idea, but from his shows it seems like something along the lines of hardcore metal/techno. I listen to whatever I'm in the mood for; punk, classic rock, hip hop, ect. Certainly not as dark as my clothes might suggest.
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post #8 of 84
7/10/10 at 5:59am
Definitely. But it needs to - when I buy stuff, I think about how it'll look on stage, in videos, in photos etc.
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post #9 of 84
7/10/10 at 7:14am
Nope. While I have a wide taste in music (from classics like springsteen/floyd/queen/whatever to pop like coldplay/fray/third eye blind/oasis to hardcore/grindcore like all that remains/the devil wears prada/between the buried and me to some rap/hip hop like tupac/kesha/eminem/whatever), I don't think my clothing really shows any affiliation towards the different genres in which I listen to.
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post #10 of 84
7/10/10 at 8:25am
I like classical, Jazz and Alt rock, some oldies. My style is currently what ever I don't have balled up in corner. So kinda fits the alt rock grunge I like. If I didn't have to share 3 small laundry machines with 500 people, and could actually wash my clothes, I might wear my nice clothes more then twice.
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post #11 of 84
7/10/10 at 8:54am
I listen to such a wide array of music I don't think it would be possible. I would say one genre of music I listen to that has NO impact on my wardrobe is rap/hip hop. Growing up I wore all that awful baggy billboard shit but now that all looks terrible to me, and totally masks my best features. I would say my style is anti-hip-hop, as much as I love the music.
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post #12 of 84
7/10/10 at 10:23am
I wear suits and bump to Merzbow and Oval. So... yes?
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post #13 of 84
7/10/10 at 10:37am
well I guess kind of

I tend to see musicians with style I appreciate, and occasionally imitate it.

But I don't think my involvement in music puts me in a place where my life (the car I drive,the clothes I wear,where I live) are in direct relation to the music I listen to.

If that were the case i'd probably be decked out in AA,driving a prius,in Austin or someshit.
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post #14 of 84
7/10/10 at 11:33am
Pretty much. I'm a gigging musician anyway, so usually dress appropriately when on-stage.

That said, I have a fairly wide taste in music, including some hip-hop, and I don't ever dress like those guys (too whiteboy). Usually mix up some classic looks, a bit of mod/60s Brit Invasion, some more modern stuff, a bit of Kings Of Leon (slim jeans, Beatle boots, vest/plaid shirt), sometimes edge towards harder rock/metal whilst trying to avoid the all-black uniform. Sometimes a Panama hat for a jazzy funk edge, various facial hair configurations.

What would a classical music fan dress like anyway? Tux? That's pretty hard to pull off on a daily basis unless you're in some rarefied kind of job.
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post #15 of 84
7/10/10 at 11:45am
Listen to a lot of Japanese rock music, but also jazz, Bjork, some crappy American teen rock bands (e.g. MCR), Christina Aguilera. So, kinda?
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