It’s Official, Jay-Z, Beyonce Fans Are Dumb-Dumbs
I’m not sure how scientific this is, but according to a PhD student who runs the website, MusicThatMakesYouDumb.com, one’s taste in music is a direct indicator of one’s intelligence as well. The scholar came to the conclusion by comparing SAT scores and data-mining music tastes from sites like Facebook or MySpace.com. From the Telegraph.uk article:
Fans of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z also ranked poorly in terms of IQ and lovers of rapper Lil’ Wayne were deemed least intelligent.
The study was carried out by Virgil Griffiths, a PhD student in America, who compared students’ scores in SAT exams with their favourite music acts and genres by analysing data on social networking sites.
Those who prefer indie music are most intelligent, while pop, rock and gospel fans were all ranked at the lower end of the scale.
Fans of legendary acts like Queen, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and Bob Marley are all around average and above when it comes to intelligence, according to Griffiths.
Radiohead, U2 and Bob Dylan all have intelligent fans, he said.
Fans of Beyonce, Timberlake and Jay-Z all tended to score below 1,000 on SAT scores, with the average being a mark of 1071 out of 1600.
Fans of Beethoven were way ahead of the rest with an average score of over 1300.
On his website, musicthatmakesyoudumb, Griffith describes the results of his study as “hilarity incarnate”.
He introduces the test by saying: “I’ve listened to artists who after listening to I thought to myself ‘Wow… loving this rubbish says a lot about someone and how much they got going on in their head’. Could one’s musical tastes say something about intelligence?”
You know that’s kind of an interesting experiment, but not entirely accurate. I know plenty of intelligent people who have the WORST taste in music and plenty of stupid people who have pretentious taste in music. That said, I agree, people who listen to Beyonce, Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne, seem like complete dumbasses to me.
Of course, I only listen to 80’s New Wave, so I guess that makes me not only mentally challenged, but two decades behind. Oh well, ignorance is bliss!
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Holy crap, now it’s official…….I am a big dummy! Oh well, ignorance is bliss. I think.
Comment by D-Bomb — March 16, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
Dawn, after reading this line “…That said, I agree, people who listen to Beyonce, Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne, seem like complete dumbasses to me…”, I couldn’t help but lol.
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Comment by Russian Around — March 16, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
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Comment by Russian Around — March 16, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
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D, it’s good to see someone else still stuck a few decades back. I’m still stuck in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s anything past that, I have no clue, and don’t care to have a clue. Makes me feel old.. Those kids and their darn music *shakes cane*.
Comment by delilahbrat — March 17, 2009 @ 7:55 am
I love all genres of music (well, not rap), so maybe that means I’m just smart on certain days.
Comment by k — March 17, 2009 @ 10:02 am
Real Jay-Z fans don’t affiliate themselves with music created by JT or Beyonce. True Jay fans are the same ones who listen to Nas and Mos Def. His real target audience are actually more intellectual because his lyrics are usually very complicated to the likes of Wayne’s platables. This atricle lacks depth and therefore parochial.
Comment by Parag — March 17, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Parag, a little word of advice: if you are going to use a bunch of big words in a post suggesting that you and other Jay-Z fans are smart, don’t throw in big words and NOT use the spell check option.
I listen to metal, but my IQ is like 133, or something like that… I do listen to a lot of other stuff on my iPod, though.
I actually think there is something to the music=intelligence theory. In Japan, the top selling music artists are pop stars like the OLD Britney and boy bands. That music is pretty bad usually, but sells a ton. Why? Because little teenage girls have to buy every single/album put out by their favorite artist or they can’t consider themselves true fans anymore.
The geeky computer types in Japan tend to like girl groups and idols, who are basically the same as the boy bands in that they aren’t necessarily talented (and lately aren’t even attractive…), but the guys love the girls and go to the events and such. HOWEVER, these girls do not make money unless they branch out into other forms of media (see porn) because their fans are unfortunately techie geeks and know how to download all their stuff for free (videos, music, whatever).
Girls are usually not as techno-wise as the idol-worshipping guys are, so pirated copy downloads are relatively low. So even though the concerts will have the same turnout, the idols, despite being famous, are usually having trouble making ends meet, while the boy bands make so much money they whipe their asses with it.
This is actually how the music industry perceives things, as a guy who works for Sony Japan explained it to me. This applies for American bands as well– little teenage girls who like Hannah Montana and the Jonas Bros. probably don’t know about Bit Torrents or audio swiping devices to use on YouTube. The college guys who go to all of Metallica’s shows (because thank god Americans don’t listen to idols) aren’t buying their CDs because they downloaded them for free off of a file sharing site.
This is why pop music was born in the ’50s– it’s when Elvis and others came along and made teenage girls the main buyers all of a sudden. And that is why pop music is pretty freakin’ awful.
Comment by Brooke — March 18, 2009 @ 12:05 am
I think comments DO get blocked/eaten if they are too long… weird filter.
Comment by Brooke — March 18, 2009 @ 12:06 am
This is a prime example of confirmation bias.
This student clearly went into this, I wouldn’t call it an experiment, I’d call it a survey, with a clear idea of what his results were going to be. The correlation isn’t so much in the intelligence of the listeners, but in the musics target audiences access to, and interest in higher education.
In other words, the music doesn’t make you dumb, those in the social classes that tend to enjoy those types of music tend to not have the motivation to encourage intellectual pursuits.
The person who did this survey seems to have wanted to state “black people are stupid” and formed a question that would provide the results they were looking for.
I could do a similar poll and say that macaroni and cheese makes you stupid. I’d just have to call up a bunch of trailer trash and ask them if they liked mac&cheese, then ask them their SAT scores.
You can’t take shit like this seriously, every week someone comes out with a new “study” that they claim provides some prof of how A correlates with Z, that doesn’t stand up to simple logic.
Comment by Anonymous — March 18, 2009 @ 4:25 am
Oh, and it shouldn’t matter in the first place, since Dropkick Murphys are the only band anyone should ever listen to anyway.
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What if I’m a Big fan of The Beatles, U2, Frank Sinatra, RADIOHEAD and Jay z ???
What a stupid worthless STUDY!!!!
Comment by Rob — April 25, 2009 @ 1:36 am