"Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb"
That's a line from a Smashmouth song called "All Star". But what does it mean?
Does it imply that we're the most educated country that doesn't think?
Is it an implicit contradiction, intended to be humorous because it's impossible to be smart and still be dumb?
Is it more contextual and we can't know the meaning without examining the rest of the song. Or at least the lines above and below it?
Or did it just rhyme good?
Does it imply that we're the most educated country that doesn't think?
Is it an implicit contradiction, intended to be humorous because it's impossible to be smart and still be dumb?
Is it more contextual and we can't know the meaning without examining the rest of the song. Or at least the lines above and below it?
Or did it just rhyme good?
posted by banzai at 08:04
13 Comments:
Many people that get educated have learned many things, mostly things that don't relate much to life unlike the things uneducated people may have to learn before they get out of high school.
It is possible to be smart and still be dumb, because that's what the world is full of.
I don't know how to explain it haha xD
its probably not how its intended in the song, but i can relate this phrase to a few people i know.
im in high school and everyone around me is getting smarter: learning about english, maths, science...
and yet theyre making stupid decisions aswell, like drugs and alcohol...
your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
I like this line - could be about the growth of western society or else the increasingly selfish decisions that so many individuals make as time goes on
Often people go straight through school without actually getting experience in basic aspects of life. They then exit school lacking common sense in certain circumstances.
Like a PHD not knowing how to get a date,have a fun time, manage his emotions, etc.
As a side note: The optimal combination is to be both educated AND versed in life experience. Not just one or the other.
I think what he's trying to say is that even though a person holds a decent amount of knowledge, they may still be ignorant to the truth of the world outside of their comfort zone,like how most people think America is just as strong a country today as it was after WWII and the cold war just because the books they read in high-school said so, most of the song does rhyme and flow very well, but I like to think it has a deeper meaning because it did somewhat inspire a generation.
I think what he's trying to say is that even though a person holds a decent amount of knowledge, they may still be ignorant to the truth of the world outside of their comfort zone,like how most people think America is just as strong a country today as it was after WWII and the cold war just because the books they read in high-school said so, most of the song does rhyme and flow very well, but I like to think it has a deeper meaning because it did somewhat inspire a generation.
I think what he's trying to say is that even though a person holds a decent amount of knowledge, they may still be ignorant to the truth of the world outside of their comfort zone,like how most people think America is just as strong a country today as it was after WWII and the cold war just because the books they read in high-school said so, most of the song does rhyme and flow very well, but I like to think it has a deeper meaning because it did somewhat inspire a generation.
I think what he's trying to say is that even though a person holds a decent amount of knowledge, they may still be ignorant to the truth of the world outside of their comfort zone,like how most people think America is just as strong a country today as it was after WWII and the cold war just because the books they read in high-school said so, most of the song does rhyme and flow very well, but I like to think it has a deeper meaning because it did somewhat inspire a generation.
You have to connect it with the previous phrase, wich says "didn't make sense not to live for fun..." People always tend to establish a direct relation between the concept 'knowledge' and the human brain. But the brain is way more than a source of learning and knowledge. It is more than a cognitive organ. The brain keeps our past memories, our feelings, desires and emotions, wich represents a greater usage in the percentage of our "hard drive".
The phrase by itself is ironical because it uses the word brain to describe the intellectual side of the person. So living focusing only in studying or something alike most of the time (not always) won't let you live other kind of experiences, or feeling new sensations or meeting new people and circumstances wich may enhance you spiritual and emotional part.
Living the same lifestyle again and again with the same routine should indeed make you feel safer and easier. But there's no challenge on it. That's why the sentence separates, fully on purpose, the words 'brain' from the 'head'. (:
It means you become intelligent but you don't become wise. like my roommate who is knowledgeable in economics and programming but who is dismissive, wasteful, and does seem to know the difference between someone imagining something and someone believing that that thing exist. I was telling him about a story where some of the characters are undead(zombies, ghost,ghouls) and he asked me if I believed in the undead. At this I stopped, looked at him, and said "No...No of course not".
it means you are smart but you are dumb becuase you do bad stuff like druges.
I think it`s just a stupid lyric that doesn`t make sense. But if you need it to make sense, you can use the other definition of dumb - to be unable to speak. Then it would mean your brain(mind) gets smart but your head (also your mind) becomes unable to articulate what it knows.
I thank that you are smart but you make dumb choices
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