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Swifties caused seismic activity during Taylor Swift’s Los Angeles show: New research (thehill.com)

submitted 9 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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“Researchers were able to identify 43 of the 45 songs played within the recorded spectrograms.”

Researchers then compared Swift’s show to that of Metallica’s at SoFi. The heavy metal band performed on Aug. 25 and Aug. 27 at the stadium. The band “had the weakest signals in terms of the strongest magnitude from each concert,” Tepp said.

“Metal fans like to headbang a lot, so they’re not necessarily bouncing,” Tepp added. “It might just be that the ways in which they move don’t create as strong of a signal.”

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Haha, leave my walker out of this! It probably has something to do with pop music having insanely heavy bass, while metal does not.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The article claims it's the fans, not the music.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Metal fans don't tend to be as bouncy as pop fans. At least not up/down jumping bouncy

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

True, especially old-ass Metallica fans like me

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

It can be two things 🤷🏻‍♂️