Do you think there is a relationship between a persons taste in music & intelligence?

[MegaTronBomb!]

ok and i can rattle off artists who were deep thinkers who made enlightened music who are consider goats by music industy as well....beatles...john lennon....bob marley...epic clapton etc. so what's you point?

and please refrain from calling me a bytch ...we're having a civil conversation in here. if you can't handle it lemme know i'll stop replying to you.

the point clearly was/and still is... Your background/What your music is about≠How good it is.

do you realize how pretentious your entire argument is?

"b-bu-but the music i listen to has a REAL message,and it's made by people who have something to say...and the music you like doesn't have that,thus i'm better than you because of that"

same people who think like you, buy iPhones cause they feel it makes them better than people.

 

[thoushallhustle]

i wasn't gonna say it...i'm tryna behave

Welp since im already the bad guy round these parts fugg it

If you take a survey of education level and salary at a gucci mane vs coldplay concert...i think we all know what the results will be

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

if you ask me, it sounds like he's making excuses. he just doesn't know how to produce anything outside that sound. you can only get a pass for so long making the same type of beat. that excuse becomes played out when they make the same beats for the past 3 years. you're a big name producer and you're scared to switch your beats up just ONCE or TWICE because rappers don't like it? it's obvious that dude isn't a producer. more of a beat maker. damn near every producer outthere in the rap bizz has switched their style up with a beat because that's what producers do. even the neptunes with their ring ding beats has done it in their prime. your boy is just talking out his ass.

no Topaz, you are an idiot.

Lex Luger has beats that sound nothing like 9 Piece,John,MC Hammer or BMF....it's just that rappers want the same shyt that's been proven to work.

to sit here and say "That Way" "Grooveline pt.1" and "Hard in Paint" are the same type of beat...would be fukking stupid.

it's like you never get tired of telling us how much you don't know about rap.

 

[Insensitive]

if you ask me, it sounds like he's making excuses. he just doesn't know how to produce anything outside that sound. you can only get a pass for so long making the same type of beat. that excuse becomes played out when they make the same beats for the past 3 years. you're a big name producer and you're scared to switch your beats up just ONCE or TWICE because rappers don't like it? it's obvious that dude isn't a producer. more of a beat maker. damn near every producer outthere in the rap bizz has switched their style up with a beat because that's what producers do. even the neptunes with their ring ding beats has done it in their prime. your boy is just talking out his ass.

So has Lex Luger.
Wtf are you talking about ?


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14K47tDLkCA"]Schoolboy Q ft. Dom Kennedy & Curren$y Grooveline Pt. 1 - YouTube[/ame]

This idea that dude only produces "Trap Music" is only cemented in peoples
minds because that's what he blew up on.
He's already demonstrated he's more capable than that, all you gotta do is educate yourself on the man.

 

[Anothergirl]

Welp since im already the bad guy round these parts fugg it

If you take a survey of education level and salary at a gucci mane vs coldplay concert...i think we all know what the results will be

 

[Zach Lowe]

Wow I didn't expect this thread to blow up

 

[Zach Lowe]

I think music taste is a better indicator of maturity than intelligence

If you look at some super smart kids in 9 or 10th grade or some shyt they're probably listening whatever's hot on the radio

 

[PortCityProphet]

Welp since im already the bad guy round these parts fugg it

If you take a survey of education level and salary at a gucci mane vs coldplay concert...i think we all know what the results will be

so where those people come from and their background has nothing to do with it

yall trollin im done

 

[Zach Lowe]

also Mozart effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

most of that page explains how it has been debunked though

 

[Zach Lowe]

Welp since im already the bad guy round these parts fugg it

If you take a survey of education level and salary at a gucci mane vs coldplay concert...i think we all know what the results will be

It probably wouldn't be any different if you compared Coldplay to the Coldplay of hip-hop, which would be a more mainstream artist than Gucci - maybe a Jay or Kanye or someone like that

 

[BrothaZay]

if you ask me, it sounds like he's making excuses. he just doesn't know how to produce anything outside that sound. you can only get a pass for so long making the same type of beat. that excuse becomes played out when they make the same beats for the past 3 years. you're a big name producer and you're scared to switch your beats up just ONCE or TWICE because rappers don't like it? it's obvious that dude isn't a producer. more of a beat maker. damn near every producer outthere in the rap bizz has switched their style up with a beat because that's what producers do. even the neptunes with their ring ding beats has done it in their prime. your boy is just talking out his ass.

 

[same damn lo sweater]

i saw a similar thread like this on a political site once. a racist white dude went in on r&b, calling it "urban mating music" and made semi-coherent arguments why people that listened to rap/r&b were simpletons. but really he was just a dikk

 

[bouncy]

To me it's about how you use the words in your song to create a picture in my mind. That takes intelligence to make and it gets your brain going. This is why a rapper might not use big words as someone else would and still be more intelligent. He knew how to be complex while being simple and the person who understood him is intelligent also. Jay-Z & Kanye are good at this. Some of the stuff they say just go over peoples head, and I have to explain it to them. It's also how someone flows or sings to the beat, and how the listener hears the flow. Kendrick Lamar is real good at flowing to the beat while still getting his point across.

The same for the instrumentation, if some can make simple but complex arrangements and the listener can hear it, they are both intelligent. If you listen to some old roots reggae it will trip you out how the drummer can go off beat then come back on beat before the rhythm gets messed up. The question shouldn't be how much school intelligence they have but how much emotional intelligence they have as that is a better indicator of the type of person someone is because it dictates how someone makes choices.

They should analyze what the person likes about a song and not just what song they like because a lot of people just play a role and like what they are supposed to like such as a doctor liking jazz or classical and a gangsta liking guucci main and waka flocka. Most people are sheep.

 

[Anothergirl]

To me it's about how you use the words in your song to create a picture in my mind. That takes intelligence to make and it gets your brain going. This is why a rapper might not use big words as someone else would and still be more intelligent. He knew how to be complex while being simple and the person who understood him is intelligent also. Jay-Z & Kanye are good at this. Some of the stuff they say just go over peoples head, and I have to explain it to them.

The same for the instrumentation, if some can make simple but complex arrangements and the listener can hear it, they are both intelligent. If you listen to some old roots reggae it will trip you out how the drummer can go off beat then come back on beat before the rhythm gets messed up. The question shouldn't be how much school intelligence they have but how much emotional intelligence they have as that is a better indicator of the type of person someone is because it dictates how someone makes choices.

They should analyze what the person likes about a song and not just what song they like because a lot of people just play a role and like what they are supposed to like such as a doctor liking jazz or classical and a gangsta liking guucci main and waka flocka. Most people are sheep.

brilliant post. +rep
you're esp on point about the emotional intelligence correlation....

 

[Ginger]

There are many different types of intelligence. I also want to point out that being educated does not necessarily equal intelligence. Just throwing that out there.

With that said, there does seem to be some kind of relationship between music and intelligence. There also seems to be a relationship with the types of music one listens to.

I honestly don't think it has anything to do with genres of music. I think has more to do with lyrical structure and instrumentation.

Like another poster said, those who prefer more complex lyrics and instrumentals generally think about things on a deeper level. Does that mean that they are smarter than everyone else? It depends on which definition of intelligence is being used.

I will be honest and admit that I have felt this way about music for a while. If a guy's music collection is made up of artists who usually make catchy music with simple lyrics, I will not date him. I know it sounds shallow, but I automatically assume that we have nothing in common. If he listens to a mixture of both, then its fine. But if the majority of his music is simple, then I avoid him at all costs. I, myself listen to both complex music and simple music as well, but I prefer the complex over the simple and I prefer the type of guy I date to have similar taste in music as well.