Do INTJs react strongly to songs that express an entire vision for life?

[heartland]

The songs I tend to like the best are those that have a vision for life, all there in one three minute pop song.

It's probably the main reason I still like U2 in spite of all Bono's b.s. - Irish people are supposed to hate U2 - but I like them: at their best, they have this vision thing going on - listen to a song like Mercy or Zooropa.

Other songs I like:

Pet Shop Boys - Se Vida E


Saint Etienne - Finisterre (I love this one):

I loved to draw when I was a little girl
It helped me see the world as I wanted it to be
Sometimes I walk home through a network of car parks
Just because i can
I love the feeling of being slightly lost
To find new spaces, new routes, new areas
I love the lack of logic
I love the feeling of being slightly lost

I belive that music in the long run can straighten out most things
There are too many bands that act lame
Sound tame
I believe In Electrelane
Over here it's new, it's now, it's you, it's clean
The beard and lipstick scene
So look beyond Big brother, gossip culture,
So bored of stupidity
The myth of common sense
I believe in Donovan over Dylan
In love over cynicism

Finisterre, to tear it down and start again (x3)
Think about the love back in Finisterre

Five miles north is a town
of silver birches
Twenty-seven chuches
A look of horror if you drop a H
Around here its hoods up and heads down
Got it the wrong way around
When things get turned around
I slow down
Dream about the notion of the perfect city
Imagine the 19th century never happened
Just a straight run from Beau Brummell to Bauhaus
Dreams never end
This house believes in skyscrapers

Chorus (x5):
Finisterre, to tear it down and start again
Think about the love back in Finisterre

I want to know the whole of the city with you


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I am wondering, is this a common tendency among INTJ's in terms of our appreciation of music, or is it just me?

[RHKINC]

It is a common tendency for you.

[Ian Morrison]

Often what drives me to a song is an interesting beat and complex instrumentation, rather than theme. However, occasionally I'll find a song with a theme or message that speaks to me and I'll grow fond of it as a result, even if it's not quite up there in terms of music.

An example would be Nickleback's "Hero"... I really liked the sentiment of the song:

"They say that a hero will save us,
I'm not gonna stand here and wait!"

[Oxxy]

Yes, I love songs like that.

All my favorite bands seem to have this general characteristic:
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Modest Mouse
Alice in Chains
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Rush
etc

[a world apart]

I don't know whether or not I tend to enjoy songs that espouse a certain way of viewing life or not, but I know I do intensely enjoy songs that tell a story upon which I add my own way of seeing their situation, reading into it a certain way (or sometimes ways) of viewing life and/or their situation.

I'm a sucker for character development in a story or song. But being told someone else's way of seeing something . . . probably not as much. It really has to be implied so that I can find it myself, or see it a completely different way than they meant for me to, but thus I still enjoy what I found.

I think it is the Fi in us, albeit manifesting slightly differently in the OP than in myself. You should check out To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. wherein jndiii describes that INTJs have a bit of INFP in them, which I think has a bearing on this conversation.

[Chiello]

I like songs that I can relate to on an emotional level, or that connect to some strange inner me.
Example
** Staind - Schizophrenic Conversations**

Schizophrenic conversations that
I'm always having with myself
I hear these voices in my head competing
Maybe I could use a little help
I still have Schizophrenic conversations when there's no one else around to hear
I long for solitude and peace within me
Void of all the anger and the fear.

So crawl inside my head with me
I'll show you how it feels to be
Fucked up like me.

Never mind me....sometimes I'm just EMO....or maybe it's the PMS...

[Liason]

I tend to react more strongly with political music.

[ArtistTyrant]

i like Rush if that counts

[a world apart]

I tend to react more strongly with political music.

KMFDM makes me want to stab politically based music, which is infuriating since you can't stab music.

[Liason]

KMFDM makes me want to stab politically based music, which is infuriating since you can't stab music.
I was thinking more Anti-Flag.