The Guardian has been on a roll this week. Today Steven Wells has a piece on the correlation of your music taste and your intelligence. The results, uhh, slightly irked Mr. Wells, but the fountain of gold that spewed forth had me tearing up with laughter. To distill the results: turns out if you fancy gospel or classic rock, you’re dumb as a box of hair (“religious belief being an absolute benchmark of stupidity apparently”). If you dig on Radiohead or Sufjan Stevens you could probably find your way out of a maze. Wells was both confused and disappointed by some of the reults:
“Some of the acts that flourish at the ‘clever’ end of the chart also baffle. The pop act whose fans have the highest SAT scores is profoundly rubbish Christian acoustic poomonger Sufjan Stevens.”
I’m sort of confused by Counting Crows fans being considered bright. In my experience, liking Counting Crows simply meant “bad taste”, but I guess that doesn’t preclude intelligence. Sigh. Wells doesn’t seem impressed, either. Nor is he convinced being a Radiohead fan is indicative of intellectual prowess:
Read the rest at Drawer B.
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