Color associations of music genres

[Pink Jazz]

This may seem like a strange concept, however, I was wondering, if you can associate different music genres with different colors, what would they be?

Here are mine:

• Rock - Red (fiery)
• R&B - Blue (cool)
• Pop - Yellow (lively)
• Smooth jazz - Pink (soothing)
• New Age - White (soft)
• Hip-Hop - Dark blue (more cool)
• Classical - Purple (deep)
• Techno - Gray (technology)
• Disco - Silver (disco ball)
• Country - Brown (the color of earth, the classical element)

What would your color associations be?

[hbelkins]

Hip-hop and rap: Black.
Country and heavy metal: White.

[Duke87]

I make no such associations.

This sounds like something someone who has synesthesia would experience.

 

[Pink Jazz]

I make no such associations.

This sounds like something someone who has synesthesia would experience.

Well, if you ran a music store, it makes things easier to find by organizing each genre with a color.  I have seen some libraries that color code books by genre.

[Pete from Boston]

Not really, though I know there are folks that can tell you what colors music is.  However, Tuesdays will always be yellow, and Mondays a dark but unsaturated blue.

Route 28 is green, but Route 38 is pink.

[Pink Jazz]

Not really, though I know there are folks that can tell you what colors music is.  However, Tuesdays will always be yellow, and Mondays a dark but unsaturated blue.

Route 28 is green, but Route 38 is pink.

Of course, for months of the year, each month can be represented by a color for the dominant holiday, i.e. Pink for February (Valentine's Day), Green for March (St. Patrick's Day), Orange for October (Halloween), or Red for December (Christmas).  However, Pink is overtaking Orange for October due to it being Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

FYI, speaking of route numbers, ADOT once tried color coding the Phoenix area loops.  Loop 101 was blue, Loop 202 was brown, and Loop 303 was black.  ADOT did away with this due to sign fading, in particular the brown Loop 202 shields were especially prone to fading.

[Pete from Boston]

Not really, though I know there are folks that can tell you what colors music is.  However, Tuesdays will always be yellow, and Mondays a dark but unsaturated blue.

Route 28 is green, but Route 38 is pink.

Of course, for months of the year, each month can be represented by a color for the dominant holiday, i.e. Pink for February (Valentine's Day), Green for March (St. Patrick's Day), Orange for October (Halloween), or Red for December (Christmas).  However, Pink is overtaking Orange for October due to it being Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

February's brown, March blue, October a dark red on the orange side, and December green. 

[Alps]

My main color associations are from early childhood map puzzles to states. Michigan is red, Connecticut is yellow, Kansas is pink, California is yellow, Nebraska is orange, etc. I don't remember all of them, but that's a lot more than I remember of most things around that time.

[hbelkins]

If I'm associating anything with colors, it's usually states with the sports teams of their primary school. Kentucky = blue. North Carolina = baby blue. Tennessee = vile orange. Florida = a different vile shade of orange. Ohio = red. And so on.

[Alps]

If I'm associating anything with colors, it's usually states with the sports teams of their primary school. Kentucky = blue. North Carolina = baby blue. Tennessee = vile orange. Florida = a different vile shade of orange. Ohio = red. And so on.

Kentucky is pink. NC is red. TN is yellow. FL is orange. OH... that one I forget.

[kurumi]

My strange synesthesia: the NFC (and NL) are odd (like north-south numbering); the AFC and AL are even. No idea where that came from.

[US81]

I understand many synesthetes tend to associate color and music by pitch and key. D major is a bright sunny yellow, G major a light orange, E-flat major = grass green, etc. 

[Alps]

My strange synesthesia: the NFC (and NL) are odd (like north-south numbering); the AFC and AL are even. No idea where that came from.

Yeah I don't know either, cause you're WRONG. AFC and AL are way better, so they're odd. (Also prefer AHL and ABA to NHL and NBA. I'm not a huge fan of A but it somehow becomes round in those words instead of all pointy and slanty like an N.)

[on_wisconsin]

What about EDM and Dubstep?