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_Abe_Froman_SKOC t1_j6ne2sn wrote

Reply to Top 5 Most Intelligent Musicians? by [deleted]

Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave) has a degree from Harvard, and is a prominent social activist.

Greg Graffin (Bad Religion) has a PhD from Cornell in zoology and is a guest lecturer at UCLA when not on tour.

Edit: While he lacked much formal education, Lemmy was a prolific reader who was known to always be reading something, and was apparently well versed in WWII history specifically. Ozzy Osbourne once said that Lemmy crashed at his house for a week and he "drank all my booze, snorted all my coke, and read all my books."

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GriffinTurtle t1_j6ndc6h wrote

Reply to Top 5 Most Intelligent Musicians? by [deleted]

The issue with intelligence is the difficulty in actually meaningfully quantifying it.

I would say all musicians obviously have to be decently intelligent in some areas in order to do what they do, whether they play an instrument, write their music, or even just navigating the industry.

It's also really hard to tell if someone is intelligent from their music. Do thoughtful lyrics make a song intelligent? What if there are thoughtful lyrics but the composition is simple? See what I mean?

I think that's why so many people are coming up with Brian May. He has an obvious thing to point to outside of his music. He's an easy answer.

To answer your question, everyone and no one... But also everyone.

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whatistheformat t1_j6nbqgx wrote

Reply to Top 5 Most Intelligent Musicians? by [deleted]

>They're known as the least intelligent of the arts.

They are?

I'd nominate Julia Holter. She's classically trained and her songs reference Greek tragedy and authors like Virginia Woolf, and every album of hers has an underlying concept.

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NativeNYer10019 t1_j6nbo4y wrote

Reply to comment by Mitch1musPrime in Chicago prosecutor dropping R. Kelly sex-abuse charges by roundposter

But R Kelly didn’t get a lighter sentence, this case is nothing like your brothers. R Kelly already got sentenced to 30 years of Fed time, and fed time is stricter than state time is. Even with good behavior he’d still have to serve 25.5 years of the sentance he received from the Feds. He will most likely die in prison already with the sentence he’s already received, or be released at 81 years old, if he even lives that long. If that’s not Justice I don’t know what is. Just because those specific accusers names aren’t attached to that trial sentencing paperwork doesn’t mean they’ve not gotten justice. The man that abused them will not be able to hurt anyone else because he won’t see the light of day. That has to be enough. Anything else is a purely emotional desire for vengeance, not rooted in healthy objective reasoning. Spending millions of dollars on a trial to appease emotions but that won’t make a difference in keeping this man in prison longer than he’s already sentenced to would only be a symbolic gesture. It’d be nothing but a waste of a shitton of Chicago taxpayer dollars. And that wouldn’t be a sound financial decision.

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