One of our classroom tasks was to listen to two very different songs in terms of tone and style. We had to simply draw whatever came into our head as we listened.
The first song was in the heavy metal genre, it wasn't very pleasant and as a group we depicted common stereotypes with this genre. Two of our group members had the same sort of idea, and man with long flowing hair playing a guitar. With one of the drawing of the man standing on flaming skulls. One of the other drawings was of brutal violence and the other of "death". This goes to show that we followed the common connotations of this genre.
The second song was very slow in pace and sad in tone. This was also an unpleasant song like the first, but in a very different way, where the first had depictions of violence and death, the connotations of the second song was sadness and depression. As a group we followed our natural instinct of mind and followed these connotations and came up with cliche scenario's of a depressed man. We had someone playing a piano in isolation, a man standing on top of a bridge with suicide on his mind; and a man drinking alone at a bar drowning his sorrows.