Do you think there is a correlation between musical taste and intelligence?

I listen to heavy metal and Reggaeton. (No, not at the same time.) Where does that leave me?

Not really, I think it boils down to the local culture and music taste.

Someone from the hood is very likely to enjoy rap, just as someone in the country enjoys... well country music.

Taste is just taste

There's definitely no full correlation. They say country music and rap is the least intelligent of all and although I don't like either of those genres I have friends who do and they're definitely intelligent in many ways, one is even studying at the University of Cambridge and another studied at Harvard which are extremely difficult to get into, you have to have a bright mind to study there so I don't think it means much.

I also don't think I've ever met a single intelligent person who listens to heavy metal, they're usually quite dim-witted but that's not to say there are intelligent people who do, I'm sure there are as are there who listen to any type of genre. A lot of it is just the environment you grew up with and life experiences that shape our music taste.

Why do I feel like there's a thinly veiled racial component to this question....

I read on the internet Albert Einstein was a big Black Sabbath fan.

What if I like all music without exceptions??? What does that say about my intelligence?

No co relation whatsoever.

Possibly. I judge people based on their musical taste can't help it really.
If you listen to music that has more depth to it and is made with lots of creativity then you're probably used to finding the deeper meanings and thinking deeply. Then again i've read that we all find and listen to music which mirrors who we are, the music we listen to don't shape us but the other way around, so according to that people who listen to shallow and generic radio hits are shallow or not very deep thinking people since they're the most attracted to easy listening crap music. But there's most likely exceptions as always. Some people have just never been interested enough in music to look for "their genre" and find the gems but that doesn't make them less intelligent. Not sure how you can be not interested in music unless you're some kind of a psychopath but some people I suppose are unfortunate enough that they haven't grown up for example with parents who listened to and showed them a lot of good music as well as friends. One guy I knew said he doesn't like music and when he does listen it has to be happy, simple songs because everything else is depressive, apparently. I once sent him some songs which were more complex, long and with lots of interesting lyrics and melodies and he was just like "I dont like this because it's sad"... And they weren't even sad songs. Personally I read that as he was scared of feeling deeply as songs with a lot of emotion and passion in them provokes deep thinking and feeling. Depth isn't automatically sad though thinking and feeling too much can make one sad or disappointed. But it's also how you learn.

I don't see a correlation.

No, but this is a meme someone made by stealing and editing a YouTube comment I made a few years ago. It doesn't even say what I originally said.

https://pics.me.me/ihave-a-mental-age-of-67-only-because-my-upbringing-35361685.png

Someone who really likes rock music more than anything else.