What's the most NT music genre in the world?

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In other words, I'm being a difficult Aspie.

I think comedy or nerdcore would be the most AS music

What's nerdcore?

And by comedy, what do you mean? Like Tim Minchin?

Nerdcore is music about that's about geeky things. It's called nerdcore because it's apealing to nerds. Examples of nerdcore are MC Lars
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhY5k_5WPCA&ob=av2e[/youtube]

Lemon Demon
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCXsDmvvzjw[/youtube]

By comedy I mean music that's funny like Weird Al or lots of other less famous stuff. I think some of those artist have autistic traits & Aspies do tend to like some less popular things & have a more unique sense of humor.

Comedy = Richard Cheese

People have said that metal,techno,nerd-core,comedy and classical were aspie genres.
Are you suggesting That I am an NT because I listen to mostly folk and punk music?

There is no NT genre and there is no aspie genre. These sort of threads piss me off.
I am so f*****g tired of people separating NTs and aspies.

This thread is elitist and cliché!
I'm sorry that I get so offended but I have met NTs that I really love and feel a deep emotional connection with them.

I agree with you, artrat. I listen to everything that's been mentioned in this thread, both 'NT' and 'Aspie'.

I love pop music. Just not what's on the radio. But pop music is my thing, it's an easy way for me to learn about emotional stuff, as I'm not able to really emotionally process super deep music most of the time, but pop music I can relate to on an emotional level much easier than like...dark ambient trance... or something. I mean I got my share of weird music, and "cultured" music, jazz and whatnot, but most of the time, I wanna listen to simple pop music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZjzh1_Tek So like, a LARGE proportion of the time I listen to pop music like this. The most undeep stuff in the entire world, and I love it. I only started listening to this stuff when I started caring less of others opinions. Oddly, I had to realize I cared about others opinions first... Anyway, I'm probably not "NT", DXed NVLD, so maybe a bit different, but yeah, pop music is the best as long as it's not about being a hoe or being a "playa" or other stupid crap like that.

For the most "NT" of all music genres...Various kinds of rap. I'll exclude a lot of oldschool rap and underground rap, but like, most rap, I don't see HOW one could actually musically enjoy such a thing, and most is about, basically, pretending to be a tough guy, and pretending to be a pimp. I see "urban" culture as the exact opposite thing that most "Aspies" aspire to be, or are. I mean there's obvious exceptions to the rule, but the rule of rap music seems to be that. Even as a culture on a whole, in "urban" culture, Aspie traits aren't very well appreciated, are seen as weakness, etc, and the entire music is basically about image, not about doing innovative things musically, a good song is determined by how cool you market yourself as in the song, how cool you can make yourself look in the music videos, the entire genre is based upon raising up in social hierarchy. Again, exceptions to the rule exist, but yeah.

As far as the minimal techno, well, it's too minimal, but I LOVE Ibiza trance and all that kinda stuff that gets played there. Especially Nadia Ali. As far as the party scenes and all that in the music video, well, I don't really know how much they'd affect my anxieties or whatever. I'd never meet the people again, and besides, everyone else there has social anxieties and stuff too, and are probably drunk or on drugs to help them socialize a bit, too, NTs got social anxieties, too, just they're better instinctively, but the anxiety can happen to anyone. I guess one problem with such a party is religiously for me it's a bit too hedonistic, though. But, I'd like to go to Ibiza one day, it seems fun for some reason. That song there is my favorite of the clubby poppy trance stuff. Oddly, I keep tabs somewhat on that genre, it puts me in an odd position hearing it at parties and whatnot, cuz I know like a lot of the songs played, whereas most "NTs" at the parties sorta accept such music as background music for parties, me I'd go because I very much LIKE such kinda techno music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFlYtL_o_8
But that song, WONDERFUL.

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Well, the thread was supposed to be a piss-take actually, none of my threads are actually serious lol, I was going to make a thread about what's the most "aspie animal" and the most "NT deodorant brand", it all doesn't matter to me, I like to joke around opposed to many people on this forum unfortunately. Yeah, you can go on that this sort of humour isn't funny at all, but as far as I know everybody got a different sense of humour in the world and most people get painfully misunderstood for that because everybody is different after all.

I was just thinking that.

I'd also like to add that there might actually be WP members who like the type of music in the video. I don't really care for it myself, but the person who posts after me might be a big fan of this music and listen to it, all waking hours of the day. There might be an NT looking at this thread somewhere who might be very ticked off, because they're living in a time warp and they couldn't be bothered with the music in this video.

I'm afraid I've got to agree with artrat and TeaEarlGreyHot. The question seems a little heavy-handed to me. We rarely ever reach total consensus on the various issues discussed on this forum, so what makes anyone here think that "NTs" or "Aspies" are homogenous groups with respect to musical tastes? Besides which-- if you want to discuss "Aspie music", with an air of condescension, as being somehow better than pop, then you ought to take a good look at who we can claim as artists on the spectrum:

- David Byrne has claimed to have had Asperger's in the past, which may or may not be true. Talking Heads may have had some rather unconventional music, but it was popular as hell in the 80s (thanks in part to heavy rotation on MTV), and I still hear "Burning Down The House" and "Once In A Lifetime" occasionally on pop radio.

- Gary Numan has AS. Again, unconventional-- but then again, in the 80s, unconventional was almost a prerequisite for pop success. "Cars" still gets heavy rotation on some pop stations due to nostalgia factor.

- Craig Nicholls is one of the best-known confirmed cases. The Vines sort of tow the line between pop and rock. But I've heard "Get Free" and "Ride" dozens of times on MTV, and they're far from complex, unconventional, or heavy metal (and you know you've hit pop stardom when Weird Al fits one of your songs into one of his polka medleys ).

- Adam Young, the mastermind behind Owl City, also says he is an Aspie. 'Nuff said.

I'm glad that David Byrne and Gary Numan have it. I only heard that about Gary Numan the other day! He is so cool.

I don't find the NT vs Aspie threads funny at all. Many NTs listen to music that is not considered mainstream.
Making NT jokes are no different than making racist jokes. We are all humans and neither one of us are any better than the others.

Despite what you think, I do have a sense of humor but making jokes that encourage segregation is not funny,

Plus, I think it reflects badly on the ASD community as a whole when some of this "Aspie superiority" or "Aspie = x, NT =y" stuff gets circulated, regardless of whether it's meant as a joke or not. The OP in this instance was obviously not posted with malicious intent, but that doesn't mean it still couldn't be construed as condescending to some of the demographic being singled out (in this case, NTs). Sometimes I really wonder how much of the hardship we have in adjusting to the society around us is self-imposed. We express a desire for NTs to be more sensitive to our needs and our struggles, and then turn around and make jokes about them and talk down to them as if their tastes and the ways they conduct their lives are somehow wrong just because we can't relate to them. If we antagonize everyone who isn't "one of us", we're going to be left with a pretty small world eventually. In the long run, I think it's better for them and for us to put less effort into delineating the distinction between NT and Aspie, and more on how we can bridge whatever gaps we have and coexist.

Depends what you mean by pop? Do you mean songs that are centered on hooks, melodies and harmonies? Or do you mean music that finds Top 40 success in the 2010s?