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(according to the BBC, they do).
For women there tends to be only an emotional reaction to music whereas it goes beyond that for men????
Men tend to be more interested in the intellectual and trivia aspects of music??? (as in where albums have been recorded, equipment used, who wrote the song, who performed the instruments, chart positions/album sales, etc etc)
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by and large, men more often adhere to the High Fidelity model of music appreciation: completist and competitive, as if you score more league table points for knowing the greatest amount of trivia about a band and owning all of its releases - even the Japan-only 7in singles and the flexidiscs. Women, on the other hand, are perfectly at ease with the idea of falling madly in love with one song, and never feeling the need to vacuum up the artist's entire back catalogue.
If we are to cautiously agree that women are more at ease with discussing emotions, and therefore more comfortable with the idea of embracing their emotional response to music, then it is logical to assume that the songs which aim for the emotional jugular might appeal more to women than to men. How else to explain James Blunt?
I would further suggest that the framework of music appreciation, the lists and the cataloguing, the trivia and the multiple copies of albums, gives men another kind of structure through which to examine their emotions.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2258116,00.html
Some music has always been traditionally male-dominated, notably heavy metal, whose listeners react to physical raw power.
The recent Led Zeppelin audience was apparently mostly male (curiously, since there are millions of women who adore Led Zeppelin but for some reason seem to have missed out on tickets). But among newer metal bands, it's different. The audience for Korn, for example, is notably split.
Gigs in Britain have gone from an almost exclusively male preserve in the 1960s and 1970s to an increasingly diverse environment where eclecticism rules and most audiences are a healthy mix of male and female - often together, as the singer-songwriter genre is peculiarly weighted towards couples.
Still, there is one group of blokes who do over-analyse everything, who are incapable of reacting emotionally to music and break everything down to demographics, chart positions, emerging trends, trendy labels.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/02/women_men_music.html
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