Robert Christgau MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Robert Christgau? Robert Christgau is an personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, SCUEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
I do see where the Ti votes are coming from, but I see so much Ni in his ability and tendency to psychologize the artists he reviews, with his highly specific viewpoint/belief set. He is sparse and often cryptic, effortlessly making profound observations in very few words. He doesn’t overexplain himself in the Ti-Ne way…he does the exact opposite. He also completely lacks Si, avoiding discussing musical details in his reviews, instead summarizing the record’s essence (or at least his very Fi-based impression of it). Ti makes almost as much sense as Te, but to me it seems like he’s using Te to bluntly articulate a very Ni-Fi worldview. He doesn’t write like he’s trying to analyze things under a microscope; he matter-of-factly alludes to them like it’s an objective thing he observed. And what he observes is entirely made of abstract impressions, as opposed to logic-based arguments. I can see how his staunchly independent viewpoint (and anti-pretension pretensions) can look like Ti with inferior Fe, but what he seems to zero in on is the record’s aesthetic, and (more importantly) what that aesthetic philosophically means for the artist and the integrity of music, which sounds more like Ni-Se to me.
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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