April 1, 2009

A student in the US has put together a study that shows the correlation between intelligence and musical preference. In the project that seems to have been put together with all the deliberation and care that I pumped into my tertiary studies (that being, sweet fuck all. Pass the bucket bong please), the student matched music preferences to US high school marks and came up with some very loose parallels.

Apparently and most predictably, lovers of Beethoven are apparently the most intelligent, compared to Lil’ Wayne fans who are dead set spuds. The Used fans didn’t fare well, AFI fans are apparently pretty daft, Blink 182 fans surprisingly have average intelligence, followed by Rage Against The Machine fans who are pretty clever. I’m betting this chick wasn’t at their Festival Hall show last year to see one of the largest congregations of dickheads of all time, all shirtless, stinky and bouncing off one another with goofy, fist-pumping abandon.

And then that got me thinking about your average hardcore show, armed with eccentric front men roaring largely unintelligible lyrics to a crowd that often appear to be ignoring them completely to focus on running in circles and kicking the air all while swinging their arms about in a furious, yet waterless, backstroke. Errrrm.