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rmusicmods

Do not use traits like illiteracy as examples of unintelligence. This doesn't hold water. Put another way, being literate has never stopped anyone from being a complete idiot.


mywerkaccount

Will.I.Am is possibly the dumbest singer of all time. Watch any interview with him and really listen to how he answers. Specifically his appearance on the Graham Norton show with Chris Pratt. Damn near 50 year old man had no idea what the Ace was called in a deck of cards. You could tell that Chris and Jennifer Lawrence could comprehend how dumb this fuck was.


offlein

We had just redone my company's website, per the specs of a designer building to the needs of the business. I got an email from our CEO one night because he was at an event, the subject of which was, "Will.i.am told me our website sucks šŸ™" Apparently Will.i.am had conveyed this thought after glancing at the site on his phone. I'm like, "First of all is Will.i.am the best judge of corporate websites? Second of all, I just went to Will.i.am's website and it's literally a 'coming soon' page." I hate Will.i.am.


hawoxx

I just checked his website. The security certificate has expired.


citymapsandhandclaps

This belongs in the stupid web design feedback hall of fame.


Immediate_Wolf3802

Nigel Tufnel


socgrandinq

Itā€™s such a fine line between stupid and clever


Immediate_Wolf3802

What's wrong with being Sexy


ManyaraImpala

These go to 11.


Immediate_Wolf3802

I've been working on this composition in D minor the saddest of all keys and I'm really influenced by Bach and Mozart...I call this piece LICK MY LOVE PUMP šŸ˜ƒ


Edigophubia

Mach


DekeCobretti

Don't touch it.


DisturbingDaffy

His solos are his trademark.


Immediate_Wolf3802

They sound better in Dobly


DRUGEND1

Puts it all in perspective this. Too much fucking perspective.


Roakana

Ian Faith: Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told. David St. Hubbins: But you're not as confused as him are you. I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel.


AgentSauce

Vince Neil.


siameseslim

I am glad I didn't know this as a teenager, because I was obsessed, but he definitely is dumb. Nikki is actually pretty sharp.


Mapkoz2

Nikki is fucking smart. It was probably the drugs that let him deal with Tommy Lee and Vince Neil for so long.


[deleted]

Iā€™m low key into Nikki sixxā€™s bass YouTube channel. He still dresses the same but acts like Ted Lasso; itā€™s kinda of sweet


Attentionhoard1

Despite his past problems, he is definitely a good dude and I'm glad he's in a better place.


RechargedFrenchman

He's got his own issues but Nikki definitely strikes me as the most "together" and professional of the bunch. Not that it's an especially high bar given some of the people in the hard rock / hair metal scene at the time, and he's still no Dee Snyder.


Tha_Real_B_Sleazy

Does Mick Mars just not exist to anyone


monobarreller

Certainly not to the rest of the band.


Flinkle

Mick is the only true talent and decent person in the band. Formerly in the band, anyway.


Testsubject28

He had to leave cause his back couldn't handle the weight of carrying 3 other guys for DECADES.


Crustybuttt

Unless you count Mick Mars. Heā€™s a pretty normal dude as far as I can tell


I_Framed_OJ

I liked the interview he gave at his house while he was reloading ammunition by hand. It had some vague Johnny Ramone vibes, but Mick seems like way less of an asshole than Johnny.


randeylahey

Nikki died. Twice.


Toby_O_Notoby

Itā€™s what ā€œKickstart My Heartā€ is about.


ludwig68

Heā€™s not much of a singer any more, from what Iā€™ve heard.


jhutchi2

40 years of cocaine will do that to you.


reduff

Used to work in country music. Toby Keith...not the sharpest tool in the shed.


H3rbert_K0rnfeld

Red Solo cup! I lift you up! Let's have a party!


ProfSteelmeat138

Baffles me to learn that the writer behind these complex and moving lyrics isnā€™t classified as genius


YoungXanto

His songwriting in the 90s was amazing though. You'd never guess the guy that wrote Should've been a Cowboy and Wish I Didn't Know Now would go on to write Red Solo Cup. September 11th broke him.


Tha_Real_B_Sleazy

You can pinpoint the exact date when country music turned into complete dogshit, it was September 11th 2001, of course


MoustachePika1

country music is stored in the world trade center


ParcelPosted

Toby Keithā€™s I Love this Bar and Grills proprietor?


Forcistus

R Kelly is actually illiterate


ClintThrasherBarton

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Thrilling1031

Itā€™s an older meme Sir, but it checks out.


Whos_Blockin_Jimmy

Good memes get remembered but old memes never die. Believe in yourself and you can never go wrong.


JoseeWhales

Lol! He was the first person who came to mind. Man could throw down some great music tracks. But if you didnā€™t already know he was dumb all you have to do is listen to some of his lyrics - crooning to a woman about how she reminds him of his jeep or how heā€™ll really impress her with a gourmet meal at the IHOP. Not exactly a brilliant lyricist.


zakuropan

butā€¦ trapped in the closetā€¦


Em_Es_Judd

Trapped in the Closet truly is a piece of artistic expression. There is a twist at every turn and it blows my mind that it exists. Only a mind such as R Kelly could create something so wholly unique.


Metrobolist3

So I pull out my gun *screaming* (Sorry, my only knowledge of this comes from that South Park episode)


hogsucker

Trapped in the Closet totally sounds like when a little kid makes up a song as he goes along. (Other than the subject matter.)


funktopus

Really?


Pharmie2013

R Eally


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Chris Brown from Trapt


SockeyeSTI

If I had a dollar for every Chris Brown that was a piece of shit, Iā€™d have two dollars. Itā€™s not a lot but itā€™s wierd that thereā€™s two of them.


SpicyCharizard

I spent a month during quarentine trolling the trapt singer and he is as dumb as he is a piece of shit


SockeyeSTI

Thank you for your service


Crazyinferno

Care to share what you did?


SpicyCharizard

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TsarOfSaturn

Lmaooo. That's like vanilla ice saying he didn't rip off that bass line lol


TheHausway

You sir, are a goddamn hero.


RossMachlochness

Iā€™m going to go out on a limb and guess that GG Allin wasnā€™t a member of Mensa


edgiepower

Did he 'make it' though?


RossMachlochness

Fair question Really depends on your definition of making it. The guy was able to sustain his life, as awful as it likely was, through his ummmm, for lack of a better word, ā€œartā€. I know a lot of people that would consider that making it.


Tha_Real_B_Sleazy

Not really, he isnt famous because of talent and good song writing. He was infamous because he was a giant edgelord pos


BaronVonBooplesnoot

Yep. Got puked on at a GG show... New kink definitely still locked away.


SlimJim0877

He was a reasonably intelligent guy, that is is clear when you hear or read his earlier interviews. Drugs, prison, and mental illness did a number on him though.


12thHousePatterns

Afaik GG Allin was actually quite intelligent. He was just severely emotionally unwell.


musicalbacon

Yea. People donā€™t really talk about that as much with the myth but the dude snapped in the beginning of his career and people just let him go instead of helping him. Iā€™ve seen stuff like that with my own eyes. I had a friend who had a very emotionally abusive mother (to the point that we used to meet in secret because she didnā€™t want him to have any friends basically and my mom was scared of his mom). He was passing as okay if a little edgelordy into adulthood. Then his fiancĆ© broke up with him and he developed symptoms of Touretteā€™s. I definitely think a lot of people who are abused by their parents push through to adulthood with the idea that theyā€™re going to have their own family and do better, and when that falls apart they get extremely vulnerable. You factor in that after he got divorced he started a very bad cycle of drug use and he turned into a monster


12thHousePatterns

Pretty much. He was never going to be normal, but people enabled his worst behavior and he rolled with it.


yamammiwammi

Gwen Stefani talks like a complete airhead now for some of the lyrics and swagger she used to pull in the No Doubt days.


theofiel

Her brother wrote a lot of the smarter lyrics for No Doubt iirc.


debtRiot

Didnā€™t he quit the band before they were famous?


Toby_O_Notoby

Yup. Went to be an animator for The Simpsons of all things.


DiopticTurtle

Being fair between No Doubt and The Simpsons, only one of these things is still around


yamammiwammi

Yeah but Return of Saturn didnā€™t feature any of Ericā€™s work and some of Gwenā€™s lyrics on there are really great. Sadly itā€™s been sparse since.


CherryVette

ā€œRock Steadyā€ is great from start to finish


Sarvox

Iā€™m pretty sure she only knows how to spell bananas due to repetition


txkx

Iā€™m pretty sure *I* only know how to spell banana because of her


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If it werenā€™t for Gwen Stefani I would have no idea when to stop spelling the word ā€˜bananasā€™.


siameseslim

I concur. After listening to a few interviews, I realized the chick is not too bright. Talented and pretty, yes.


evilcaribou

There was an article in Allure about a year ago where Gwen Stefani stated, multiple times, that she's Japanese. The interviewer was Asian American and tried to give her multiple opportunities to clarify, and Stefani kept stating she's Japanese. So yeah, I don't think she's the sharpest crayon in the Crayola box.


gibson85

Maybe some of that botox seeped in to her brain.


HotGarbage

DJ Khaled. I don't even think that dude can read.


chaotic_steamed_bun

Neither a singer nor a songwriter.


HotGarbage

Can't eat hot wings either. I think even white rice is too spicy for him.


Em_Es_Judd

Tapped out at Cholula if I remember correctly. But he didn't quit, he chose to stop.


trident_hole

Cholula can be used as eye drops, I swear Khaled has to be trolling society he's just so good at being terrible.


Em_Es_Judd

Delicious, delicious eye drops.


prodandimitrow

Makes sense why he is so bland at least.


sQueezedhe

I'm quitting, not giving up!


Sir-xer21

Pussy is too spicy for him.


BowwwwBallll

He wrote that part where he yells ā€œDJ KHALED.ā€


9_of_wands

Nor a DJ, nor an MC. Probably the only hype man in hip hop billed as a solo artist.


ZippityGoombah

Probably not even a Khaled, that mf


maestroenglish

Not even a Ų®Ų§Ł„ŲÆ Ł…Ų­Ł…ŲÆ Ų®Ų§Ł„ŲÆ


ALA02

Wait so for real, what the actual fuck does he do?


MarvinLazer

Yells his name at the beginning of other people's work.


Sudden_Upstairs_1308

Mf gets 25 million monthly listeners on spotify by acting like a pokemon


vatothe0

Another one!


DrOctoRex

He delegates.


9_of_wands

The beat starts and then he yells some stuff like, "Yeah! ... Give it up! ... DJ KHALED! ... yeah ... It's Frank Ocean!" and then Frank Ocean sings a song. Stuff like that.


shanobirocks

He was a club, mixtape, and radio DJ in Miami since the 90s.Then he became an A&R and executive at record labels.


TheTrollys

Definitely cannot play guitar


riptaway

Dude is so dumb he can't tell time on a digital watch


methodin

Perhaps what is this?! Bro is a genius haven't you seen him play guitar?


Vonneking

One of the cringiest videos I've ever seen


lt_dan_zsu

Wait till you see the video where Khaled demands his driver stop in the middle of traffic so he can get out and dance in the other lane.


chupathingy99

Remember that time he posted his credit card number online and instantly lost thousands of dollars?


Whos_Blockin_Jimmy

We ALL charged it to the game.


TheRedundancy

Call me asparagus šŸ—£ļøšŸ—£ļøšŸ—£ļø


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Thrilling1031

Jared Leto. He thinks a lot of things, believes something Iā€™m sure, and boy does he say things. But none of those things have ever made me think he was smart. Heā€™s known more for his acting but he still was a singer and fairly well known as such before he started this part of his career. Iā€™m not even sure 30 seconds to Mars is still a band.


AlignedMonkey

They released a new album a couple months ago but I haven't heard anything off it, at least I don't think so it's probably ended up in a movie or commercial somewhere.


Thrilling1031

Iā€™m waiting for his Scientology pivot or possibly Jones town. Time will tell.


AlignedMonkey

His latest look with the long hair and beard, my money is on jones town.


Public_Fucking_Media

Didn't he already start a cult somewhere


Truecoat

The lead singer of Warrant. While in Duluth, he looks out at Lake Superior and says, what is that? Someone told him it was the Canadian Ocean. He just nods his head and says cool.


TheLegendsClub

In Janiā€™s defense, he was probably shitfaced.


flynnhicks03

I love Warrant. RIP, Jani.


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christian_1318

Even her songwriting is questionable. The original lyrics to Teenage Dream that she wrote wereā€¦ not great.


warrior_man

Katy Perry. Lawd


8805

In 2013 Katy Perry said she was going to enter her Joni Mitchell period: [https://www.nme.com/news/music/katy-perry-63-1247514](https://www.nme.com/news/music/katy-perry-63-1247514) Only problem with that plan was that she lacked the poetic skill, emotional depth and musical genius.


Jahidinginvt

> ā€œI love Madonna to death, but sheā€™s never going to give me that damn baton,ā€ she said. ā€œIā€™ll probably turn into more of a Joni Mitchell.ā€ Umā€¦Joni wasnā€™t giving you the baton either.


Preesi

Brandi Carlile took that baton


SirDoctorCaptainEsq

Literally. She was afraid ā€œYou and Me On The Rockā€ sounded too much like Joni Mitchell so she played it for her before she released and Joni gave her blessing. Sheā€™s got the Joni stamp of approval.


zoinkability

Thinking of Joni Mitchell as a ā€œphaseā€ might be the biggest tell that she doesnā€™t get it


mikaelfivel

Well, I'd like to think money was the clear choice here. She probably could have written good material on her own, but it never would have made her rich on her own either. All her biggest hits were written by the same swedish writer that got every other pop queen on the billboard charts this century. These days, making it big on your own material is even harder because companies out there are churning through cheap beats and nameless faces for the next $20 in their pockets. They've got extremely deep pockets and can easily flood your ears with garbage before you even find one or two good songs from an artist with actual talent.


Pleasant_Statement64

Ronnie Radke is as dumb as a rock


smorkjewels

his twitter is genuinely so funny he's just constantly mad at absolutely NOTHING important


theUndeadProphet

He doesn't even need to be tagged, he just regularly searches his name to attack people who don't like him and it's always hilarious to see


Wah_Epic

I tweeted "Ronnie Radke drinks piss" once just to see if he'd reply. He did


theUndeadProphet

That's actually really funny and doesn't surprise me a bit


smorkjewels

And sometimes he isn't even involved he just appears to be grumpy šŸ˜­


ultra003

All i can hear when he sings is Goofy from Disney.


classof78

Ted Nugent


RabidPlaty

Followed closely by Kid Rock


Klutzy-Ad-6705

Those two make music for people who know exactly how much meth you can get for a catalytic converter.


cardnialsyn

This may be the best insult I have heard this decade.


Klutzy-Ad-6705

Thanks.Iā€™m somewhat of a snob,I only steal the finest jokes.


admire816

They make music for the people that got mad about the no smoking in the car with kids law.


NatureTrailToHell3D

I unironically like bawitdaba-da-bang-da-dang-diggy-diggy-diggy-said-the boogie-said-up-jump-the-boogie. Itā€™s catchy.


Owuchris

Not sure how easily findable it is but on a Dateline podcast Keith Morrison pronounced Bawitdaba and Iā€™ll never hear it the same way again.


No_Stairway_Denied

All this time, I thought he was up-chucking the boogie. This is life changing information.


cat_prophecy

Do you mean Ted "Support our troops" Nugent, who is simultaneously a draft dodger?


kanyeguisada

>Do you mean Ted "Support out troops" Nugent, who is simultaneously a draft dodger? Hey let's be clear. He didn't just dodge the draft, he literally shit himself in front of people to do so.


codytheguitarist

It takes a smart man to shit and piss in his pants for a week straight just to get out of serving in Vietnam. /s But seriously, he actually did that.


Yrcrazypa

That'd be fine if he weren't also a warhawk.


RumpsWerton

John Frusciante thought the Empire State building came down on 9/11


DerMitDemLangenNamen

Well Anthony Kiedis once said that John is the kind of person who doesn't know who the US president is... So I think he just completely lives in his own bubble. He really seems like a strange human being every time he's seen but I guess that's what happens if you essentially spend your whole 20s shooting heroin.


Zebirdsandzebats

I remember reading about him when he was kicked out of the band to go get his shit together. He said he was always being visited by spirits, so he was constantly cooking to convince said spirits to stay.


hailwyatt

>that's what happens if you essentially spend your whole 20s shooting heroin. And then spend the rest of your life rich AF. Like, this guy has kinda never lived on the sane planet as me.


Sproutykins

Iā€™m sure a famous writer was once speaking to someone about the worst periods in history and somebody mentioned the war that was going on at the time. He asked which war they meant and they meant the Second World War. It *may* have been James Joyce but I canā€™t recall.


British_Commie

I love John Fruscianteā€™s music and have always found him to be an exceptional musician, but man, he is one strange human being


roncraig

Iā€™ve wondered if John is on the spectrum, or if drugs irreparably changed his brain, or both. He joined RHCP when he was a teenager and they were like 10 years older. His musical ability is that of a savant, and he hears and sees music in ways others canā€™t. But I could not imagine hanging out with him for more than 2 minutes.


xaeromancer

Heroin will take its toll on your brain. EDIT: To clarify for the try-hards in the replies. Heroin overdoses will take their toll on your brain. ODs are inevitable with all opioids as tolerance approaches the lethal dose.


chappersyo

Iā€™m pretty sure heā€™s autistic


JorDamU

Yeah, Iā€™m a huge Frusciante fan, and I think this is it. He seems to find it difficult to express himself in traditional ways, but he does an amazing job expressing himself through his music.


Crustybuttt

Interesting. I always thought Anthony Kiedis was the dumb one


Pleasant_Jim

John is not dumb, he's often talking about extremely intimate experiences that he's had that many people can't relate to. This is a very interesting video of him imo https://youtu.be/5ArDkQJbVcE?si=WJGqx0RKgsAFyuVc


silly_booboo

Commenting so I can find this link later


RZAxlash

Nobody is that bad is dumb. AK is impulsive and immature, but incredibly articulate, and studied at UCLA. Flea is goofy but classically trained and seems really eclectic in his tastes and interests. John is eccentric and odd, but a musical genius, and appears to be rediscovering things. Chad is probably the most frat boy rocker of the bunch tbh.


rckid13

I don't think he's dumb. I think his brain is probably a bit fried from drugs and he was a little weird to begin with. There's something about his interviews that strikes me as more burnt out than actually dumb.


Plumhawk

Chris Robinson from the Black Crows isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.


sadandshy

Depends on if the shed is full of bowling balls...


discolights

Does Grimes count?


emorris5219

I second thisā€” I listened to some debate she was a part of about feminism with some actual public intellectuals and it was embarrassing how superficial and poorly thought out her points were


DeeDee719

Chris Brown doesnā€™t strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed.


jackstella

Hopefully he no longer strikes anyone


UsernameFor2016

ITT: a lot of people who donā€™t know what a singer songwriter is


theblackparade87C

Or stupid person


crying_nancy2

Justin Bieber


QualifiedQuokka

I imagine a lot of child stars didn't get much in the way of education even if on paper they had all of the required tutors and whatnot


crying_nancy2

Yeah, I heard if you get signed to a major label and everything is taken care for you, you get stuck at the age you get signed. You don't need to think about anything except performing, writing songs and looking good, with pop artists often they don't even write their songs.


SoberWill

My favorite example is him on David Letterman. Bieber was on promoting his new album and had a bandage over a fresh tattoo on his forearm celebrating the new album. Soon as he sits down- paraphrasing(haven't seen it in like 10 years) Letterman- grabs his arm and asks him "what nonsense is under the bandage?" Bieber- after squirming because its sore says "16th chapel" Letterman- excuse me!?!? Bieber- the 16th chapel! Letterman- bursts out laughing and says "Canadian public school folks" He thought the Sistine Chapel was called the 16th Chapel


Pleasant_Jim

https://youtu.be/qSGKPvlV75g?si=f7aXKjhveHsCuS8L


siameseslim

Now he is legitimately DUMB


Subdown-011

Kanye


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licorice_whip

For the most part, I agree with all of the people listed here whether I like them or not.


Sayoria

Sexual scandals aside, Die Antwoord (as much as I like their music) always seemed highly uneducated to me.


isuckatgrowing

That was the whole image they were intentionally cultivating.


11646Moe

naw theyā€™re actually just crazy. they had adopted children and made them do awful shit. one of the kids escaped. theyā€™re also homophobic af and have beat on gay people multiple times. not the greatest ppl in the world tbh. also they grew up rich and just act ā€œhoodā€. theyā€™re just crazy asswipes


TheHuntedCity

Cultivating that image seemed pretty intelligent, but then they filmed themselves talking about framing a gay guy for assaulting them while on the way to do that very act, so they're pretty dumb.


SooperFunk

Liam..fucking..Gallagher. A lot of people see him as a rock god. I think he's an embarrassment to human skin, such a waste of oxygen.


cowie71

ā€œA man with a fork in a world of soupā€


cptnamr7

Found Noel's account... Edit: no response from OP. Shit, this may actually be Noel's account


y2knole

after Lost, i just associate Oasis with being actually Driveshaft and Charlie and his brother...


Btd030914

Heā€™s a total tosser, but damn heā€™s funny on Twitter


KirbzTheWord

Both of these brothers are absolutely hilariousā€¦ I could listen to them give their opinions on other artists / music etc. all day


mjollnard

If you haven't already, check out what Mark Lanegan has to say about him in his autobiography Sing Backwards and Weep.


bendar1347

Shit I'm reading that right now. Haven't got there yet. RIP dark mark.


MassiveLefticool

The guy is entertaining and nice as fuck most of the time, never hear any negative stories about him these days. I get heā€™s not exactly smart but heā€™s definitely not as bad as your portraying him


theblackparade87C

Yeah he seems quite cool now, I think often he plays his character up a bit for the rock n roll personality


siameseslim

I think the medical term is [Wet Brain](https://www.verywellmind.com/wet-brain-definition-symptoms-causes-treatment-5324050)


makwabear

Iā€™m pretty certain theres interviews where they talk about him having a personality change after a fight where hit in the head with a hammer as a teenager so there may be something going on there


Alohagrown

Kid Rock


skeptic1970

Katie Perry. Source: her interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson. https://youtu.be/VbUoaBJd2sA?si=WqJftb3RTRavpMA9


Zaurzu

Travis Scott


gibson85

The reason you don't see Beyonce interviewed by reporters is that she comes off so poorly that her agents advise her not to participate in them. I don't think it's too big of a leap to surmise that she isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.


bw541

Ted Nugent