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My children listen to rock and roll. Does this mean they have low IQs?

I am a classically trained musician. I was not raised with rock and roll; in fact, it was forbidden in my house when I was growing up as my parents considered it sinful and anti-intellectual.

I've always associated rock and roll with low intelligence, but my son really seems to like this type of music. I try to understand and have even listened to some of his albums (he likes the Doors, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Peter Murphy, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, the Clash, the New York Dolls, etc.), but there is no intellect to this music. It's just screaming and bad guitars creating discord.

I don't like it.

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  • Emdog
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Try Brian May, guitarist with Queen. He is also an astro physicist and contributed to recent space probe

  • 4 years ago

    Troll harder!

  • 4 years ago

    not at all. but make them take an iq test if you are notsure

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    you know what is "low intelligence" and "anti-intellectual"?

    censorship and closed-mindedness.

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  • 4 years ago

    Music has grown alot over the years, rock and roll isn't just rock and roll, there are lots of different and very creative sounds artists like to mix in to express their emotions through those sounds. I myself am not very into rock and roll, but I am still open-minded to listening to different kinds of rock and roll. I think by being this way- you're really cheating yourself of experiencing different sounds. Just because your parents trained you to listen one type of music, doesn't mean you have to become them. Best of luck!!!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Much or most of "classical music" is about mathematics. R&R is often about sex and love and hate, very often in the best human ways. Take no offense but it is you who has a problem with the emotional side, I think. I'm not a kid, I know more about music than most here including something about Bach. Music means many things to many people. Can you get where this song comes from?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLEo318Yec

  • Carter: Hi. My suggestion is this. There are different styles of rock and roll. Acoustic, mid tempo and full on. May I suggest a few tunes that you could share together:

    Everybody's Friend: Jane's Addiction

    To Wish Impossible Things: The Cure

    The Crystal Ship: The Doors

    Why do rock musicians have to be atom splitters? Yes, at times you pander to the lowest common denominator but at the end of the day without fans, the rock musicians and singers don't have an audience OK? Try these songs and take a walk on the mild side and see where you end up.

  • 4 years ago

    No, you dumb ****, you must have a low IQ if you think rock and roll is tied t IQ scores, guaranteed some of the smartest people listen to rock and roll and rap I listen to rap and am incredibly smart and successful, get your head out of your ***, that's so ignorant to say, just because your kids aren't clones of you, let them express them selfs with whatever music they want, your part of the reason america sucks.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    If yew cud get sum won to reed yer kwestyun to mee, mebbe I cud anser it.

    Sincerely,

    Rock and Roll listener

  • 4 years ago

    In fact what you dont appear to know is that in the country of swaheeli they use rock n roll particularly justin bieber to enhjance the combat abilities of their young in tournaments. When your kids listen to rock and roll theirfrontal lobes are energized by the hardcoreness of the music and they become 60 degrees celcius more intelligent.

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