Songs That Make You Feel Like a Nerd

Type of nerd: Greasy slacker nerd

Nerds aren't all overachieving brainiacs. Some nerds are intelligent but also awkward and greasy and not willing to work hard on stuff like equations and experiments. Eventually, these types of nerds will usually develop into music nerds or art nerds or some other kind of non-productive nerd members of society, but in their early years they're still trying to figure things out and if that transitional period happened in the '90s, Beck's "Loser" was the soundtrack. Suddenly, being a loser nerd seemed cool... kind of.

Type of nerd: The type that builds forts in the basement

If "Peaches" was your favorite song, Pete & Pete was probably your favorite show and you probably taped it and watched it every night. When you laughed too hard at your favorite Pete & Pete jokes, you probably made embarrassing snorting noises, but you weren't ever embarrassed because you only watched Pete & Pete while you were by yourself in the fort you made in the basement.

Type of nerd: Thick-framed glasses nerd

Rivers Cuomo is a good nerd role model because he's a rock star but he's also got thick-framed glasses and he's really smart, just like you. Except you can't play any instruments other than the oboe. You'll be a rock star some day.

Edan takes nerdy rapping to new levels by bragging about farting at family functions. HeHEHeHeHeEhE kewl! *Pushes up glasses, turns hat backwards, makes fart noises with armpits*

 Type of nerd: Bro-nerd

If you still listen to Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch" in 2013 you also probably still try to turn everything into a drinking game. Like, "Hey Todd, let's watch Animal Planet and drink every time we see two animals humping!" You high-five a lot and think you're cool, but you're in your mid-thirties now and when you're around young women they get a strong predator vibe. Also, you probably still like that "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" song too.

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Type of nerd: Science fair nerd

If you can name all the different sizes and shapes of beakers, this Blackalicious song was probably your jam at some point. It's all in good fun, because your classmates probably loved your geeky ass for showing them how to make a flame blue or pull off the Mentos and Coke trick. But if you ever got a tattoo based on the Periodic Table of Elements, you took it too far.

Type of nerd: Aspiring battle rap nerd

When you first heard the term "rap nerd," you thought to yourself, "Finally." You built a microphone out of your old Speak & Spell and hit the basement for some rap biz. You called up Todd and you guys battle rapped over the phone, but little did you know your mom was listening through the vent upstairs. When she heard you drop the S-word ("sucks"), she took away your phone privileges for a week. But Mom can't stop the internal battle rap dialogue that flows through your head. Son.

Type of nerd: Stoner nerd

When your peers get high they want to listen to Curren$y, eat Hot Fries, and look at porn, but not you. You like to build vaporizers out of Home Depot supplies and the pinnacle of your existence was when you played Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots through a homemade record player in a room covered in mirrors. "This is exactly how life's supposed to be," you whispered to your pet iguana.

Type of nerd: Still hasn't had their first kiss nerd

Growing up a nerd was is not easy. I used to You get sweaty palms when an attractive girl comes within a ten meter radius, jocks throw food at you in the canteen, and for some inexplicable reason you decide that a bucket hat/thick rimmed glasses combo is kewl. Basically, your life is this music video.

But don't despair, sometimes the nerd does get the girl. Take that over-muscled sport bro. Take that.

Type of nerd: Math nerd

This song is oddly meta because the science of music can be broken down mathematically. Music is art? Does not compute.

Type of nerd: Computer nerd

When your biggest concern for the world involves a computer virus, you know you're a super nerd. "But actually," you explain, "our biggest threat IS online terrorism and the threat of global Internet attacks." You might be right, but it's hard to trust the guy with thousands of canned goods in his closet left over from Y2K.

Type of nerd: Eccentric nerd

Look, you might be a cool, funky kind of nerd, but people will never understand. If you still listen to this song seriously, you're also probably confused as to why your 17 electric violin albums haven't taken off yet, despite your manipulation of the Google algorithms.

Type of nerd: Star Wars nerd

You don't even go to Star Wars conventions because that would mean interacting with people, so you set up an online cyber Star Wars convention but nobody ever showed up so now you live eternally in an online Star Wars convention by yourself and also you always have mustard on your shirt.

Type of nerd: Weirdo nerd

If you have ever actually listened to this full song from start to finish, intentionally or not, you are a nerd. Some people turn into nerds after hearing only half.

Type of nerd: Video game nerd

You're like, "Finally, a hip-hop rap song about something I can relate to!" as you glue the last clump of human hair to the skull of your life-sized Mario doll.