"Music that Makes You Dumb"*

*working subtitle, "How to create obnoxious things on the Internet and get people to click on them"

http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/

A Cal Tech student has created a fun (if pointlessly useless when you really think about it) experiment to measure what bands are listed as "favorites" at schools with higher SAT scores.  He clearly understands that there is no real relationship between the two, but it is still kind of fun to look at and act like people who listen to Lil Wayne are super dumb, while people who listen to Beethoven are super smart.  More likely, people who listen to Lil Wayne like to party and therefore don't like to study, while people who listen to Beethoven are super boring and need to study to make their lives more fun.  Except my mom, she's plenty fun even if she listens to classical.  Love ya, mom.

Smartest rap?  Outkast.  Take that, intelligent rappers.  Ain't nobody dope as me, I'm just so fresh so clean.  If that doesn't just ooze intelligence from its pores, then what does?

Smartest Alternative?  Radiohead.
Dumbest alternative?  AFI (you can't listen to scream-o, cookie-monster vocals and know the big SAT words, folks).

Dumbest Rock and Roll?  Aerosmith and Nickelback
Smartest Rock and Roll?  Counting Crows and U2.  Sounds about right.

Smartest Country is actually Pat Green.  Which is interesting.  Have people outside of Texas heard of Pat Green?  Or does this just mean that Texas schools are the smartest? Yes?  Agreed.

Smartest "Classic Rock" is Bob Dylan.  Which is dumb, because Bob Dylan is not classic rock.  He may be old enough to be classic, but listening to the Peanuts teacher sing over folk guitar is not in the same wheelhouse as Led Zeppelin.

Dumbest indie includes Postal Service, which just can't be right.  And the smartest is Surfjan Stevens. I have never been able to get on board with Surfjan.

Only Beethoven for my kids from here on out.  While writing that, it just dawned on me that their actual favorite artist (right now, hopefully not for long) is Katy Perry.  She isn't listed on this thing.  How could the "Pop" category not have Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Lorde, or any of the other huge dominating pop stars of right now?  I take back my faint praise of this project - I smell a rat.  I think this guy just hates Lil Wayne and made this whole thing up just to troll his ex-girlfriend who loved Six Foot Seven Foot.