Category: not a typing post

does a musicians song-writing “style” tells anything about their type? can you tell an artists type just by analyzing their song’s lyrics?

Maybe, but me personally, no.  Lyrics have the same problem as writing for me where you can choose to write about anything and choose to write in any style.  Sometimes in longer fictional things I find I get more of an idea, but I’m still wrong about people just as often as not when I go to check them in video later.

As for style… sometimes, but not reliably.

I think if I wanted to try doing this I would actually have to sit down and type a huge pile of musicians, find enough commonalities between their music/lyrics across type, and then try it in reverse – typing from music and lyrics, then video interviews.  This is a lot more work than I’m prepared to commit to at this point.

heya :) I was just wondering who in the ENTPs Matthew Gray Gubler reminded you of. because I’m (I think) an INFP and I’ve been told we have similar speech patterns and so I bought into the popular theory that he’s some sort of an XNFP.

Not someone in particular (although kind of an ENTP friend of mine – unhelpful to you), but just little bits of things.  He’s got the tall, androgynous, I’m not really an actor(/model) – I’d rather be directing or producing, etc, that Tilda Swinton does (lots of diverse interests and talents, but not necessarily one direction).  He also put out a mockumentary-style day in the life, that was incredibly similar in style to one I’ve seen from Bill Nighy.

There’s an interview of him talking to Craig Ferguson and the patter from both is the same – you could probably convincingly switch most of their dialogue.

I usually check your blog and try to guess people’s types by their faces first and then read the tag. I saw that guy lorenzo henrie (which I didn’t know) and I thought: “hmm, might be infp…? he… kinda looks like me, specially the haircut. and boom! infp. that was interesting. Btw, nice blog!

I haven’t found a doppleganger yet, myself, but I keep finding little things, like “that’s my walk!” or “my hair!” and it’s always pretty weird to recognize yourself in someone else.

It was pointed out to me recently that scrolling through a type tag was an uncomfortable experience – and yeah, I can see that.  Too many of one type in one place makes for a very unnatural occurrence.

That is a lot of excellent questions that I have answered very flippantly with gifs – in my defense it seemed like a better idea than letting them all pile up?

If you asked me about why I thought someone was one type or another, probably the actual boring answer is that they remind me of other people in that type tag.

If you’re wondering how to tell apart one type from another, my stock advice is to try watching video of a bunch of one type and then a bunch of another type. 

If you asked me to reconsider someone’s type, I will do that eventually – I am kind of slow and avoidant right now.  Thanks so much for checking through the stuff I’ve posted – you’re a star!

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