Fans of hip hop will have had more sexual partners in the last five years than those pesky indie kids or metal heads. Classical music fans, meanwhile, are all dope heads. You might mock, but it's official. Well, it is if you buy some new research from the University Of Leicester, who have been mapping people's lifestyles to their music tastes.
The survey of 2500 Britons shows that almost 38% of hip hop fans and 29% of dance fans have had more than one sexual partner in the last five years, while only 1.5% of country music fans have. But, while doing all that bed hopping, those hip hop and dance fans were also busy breaking the law - because more than 50% of people who call themselves fans of those genres admitted they had committed a criminal act. It's not clear what criminal acts (drugs? shop lifting? riding their bikes on the pavement?), though if it was the former they'd have lots in common with fans of classical music - a quarter of them said they had tried cannabis, while 12% of opera fans said they had experimented with magic mushrooms (which possibly explains how they manage to sit through all those tedious operas - I wish someone had told me - those three hours I spent in the company of Cosi Fan Tutti could have been a whole lot more fun).
The man behind the survey - psychologist Adrian North - told reporters this week: "Surprisingly there have been very few studies on how people's age, sex, socio-economic status and personality relate to the music they enjoy listening to". Keen to spend tax payers money rectifying that oversight, North now plans a wider survey on the topic - and is recruiting people to take part at http://www.musicaltastetest.com.