“Any old idiot — even you — loves music, but it takes a smart person to love music in a way that takes all the fun out of it.” …That’s how this video begins, and it only gets better from there.
In a new series from comedy network Above Average , everyone in society is playfully simplified into two categories: idiots and smart people. This helps us idiots understand how smart people think about important topics — in this case, music — and we soon learn that the smart people are really just mostly ridiculous.
Here are a few notable quotes from this video:
Remember that it’s not enough for smart people to like a band. They have to explain why they like a band. And the answer can’t be because it sounds good, even though that’s the only answer that actually matters.
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Uncommon time signatures are especially intoxicating to smart people, finally achieving their lifelong goal of injecting math into music.
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Both [jazz and classical music] light up all the pleasure centers in a smart person’s brain: they’re obscure, hard to enjoy…and you can study them in college.
There are plenty more, but at this point, it’s time to just watch the video…
(via Tastefully Offensive)