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Robert Christgau MBTI Personality Type

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Personality

What personality type is Robert Christgau? Robert Christgau is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, SCUEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.

Before I knew what MBTI was, I read his music reviews of albums and in the ones he panned, I saw value in them as an ENFP. There is always a personal bias that comes through in his reviews (the music is good and grows on you but fails my own musical knowledge test) with a heavy focus on Ti-Si and I can tell Ne was inferior and I have empathy and take that bias with a grain of salt. One can be prone to logically overanalyze music, for me it has a strong Fe component fell the artist that he may have undervalued. In a way you can say someone from a different type tearing a record to shreds is something I need to listen to. To this day I use his perspective as a litmus test, if he gave music high praise I will likely be turned off and feel the opposite while still taking that critique seriously, I value considering hostile and divergent points of view, he really cared about critical analysis. But we all follow different paths in life with music. Thanks Robert Cristegau, you helped me discover myself in a way. For those that are like me, listen to music that ran against his grain personally and see what happens!

Biography

Robert Thomas Christgau (/ˈkrɪstɡaʊ/; born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist. One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop poll. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and was a visiting arts teacher at New York University. Among the most revered and influential of music critics, he has been described by CNN senior writer Jamie Allen as "the E.F. Hutton of the music world – when he talks, people listen."

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