The 10 Smartest And 10 Dumbest Songs Of The Past 10 Years, According To A New Study

We all know that most popular music is usually pretty stupid, right? The lyrics for most songs seem like they were written by a teenager. And that’s because the lyrics are, on average, written for someone with not quite a third grade level of reading according to a new study by SeatSmart.

However, this is not new. It’s just about a grade lower than it was 10 years ago. You see, pop music lyrics over the last 10 years have consistently been written for those with an 8 and 9 year-old mentality.

Using the Flesch-Kincaid grade index to determine the Readability Score of popular songs SeatSmart determined that song lyrics have not only gotten dumber over the past 10 years, they also figured out which songs have been the dumbest of them all.

But don’t fret. Not all popular music is geared to elementary school students. There are a few “smart” songs out there. Or well, “smarter” songs, as the case may be.

SeatSmart also figured out whether or not male pop songs have been dumber than female pop songs, which genres of music were the dumbest, the average word count by song, and which artists in the various genres write the most intelligent songs. It’s quite the enlightening study.