Back in 2009, a software application writer named Virgil Griffith organized data determining musical tastes of among college students based on their SAT scores. Five years later, for some reason, his work is exploding across the internet with a basic message: Radiohead is for wicked smart kids, while Beyoncé and Lil Wayne are for dummies.
Enter Nelson from the Simpsons: “Ha ha!”
Other bands and artists preferred by intelligent people include Sufjan Stevens, Counting Crows, and Boston’s very own Guster. Dumb-as-shit folk, as they are technically known, are way into the Used and T.I. (although everyone loves “Whatever You Like”). Basic people dig Tool, System of a Down, and Pearl Jam.
Consequence of Sound sheds more light on this nonsense, and the chart is below to help you kill time on the train going home: “For example, students attending the California Institute of Technology have an average SAT score of 1520. By looking at Facebook to determine the most popular (or — “liked”) band of students at Cal Tech, Griffith was able to conclude that Radiohead really truly is music for smart people. A highly scientific study,
Whatever.
