Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades - Scientific Reports

domi , 2 months ago

For many songs the lyrics are completely irrelevant and are simply used as another instrument. So there’s not much point measuring how repetitive lyrics are because music itself is repetitive.

Not every song has to be a lyrical masterpiece, or as two wise robots once said:

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jeffw , 2 months ago

Two things stand out to me:

This implies that the structure of lyrics is shifting towards containing more choruses than in the past, in turn contributing to higher repetitiveness of lyrics

The two main data sources for our investigation are last.fm and Genius. Given the nature and history of these platforms, in particular last.fm, the studied LFM-2b dataset is affected by community bias and popularity bias.

So, what we’re really looking at is that popular songs (those that withstood the test of time, not necessarily popularity on release) of yesteryear were more complicated. So, this basically just confirms that we only care about the good music from the past and we forget the boring and repetitive stuff. And not even necessarily more complicated, just fewer repetitions of the chorus. I’d care more about a comparison that controls for chorus repetition and chart position/popularity

RedEyeFlightControl , 2 months ago

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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Said we need to strive for more liberty
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet, let's get it on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet, let's get it on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet, let's get it on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet, let's get it on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet, let's get it on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The hang ups we have today
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Said we need to strive for more liberty
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift yourself upon your feet
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lift
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">The hang ups we have today-ay-ay
</span><span style="color:#323232;">But they don't really realize, though
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This next verse, this next verse though
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PunnyName , 2 months ago

You show us everything you’ve got
You keep on dancin’ and the room gets hot
You drive us wild, we’ll drive you crazy
You say you wanna go for a spin
The party’s just begun, we’ll let you in
You drive us wild, we’ll drive you crazy
You keep on shoutin’, you keep on shoutin’

I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day

You keep on saying you’ll be mine for a while
You’re lookin’ fancy and I like your style
You drive us wild, we’ll drive you crazy
You show us everything you’ve got
Baby, baby that’s quite a lot
And you drive us wild, we’ll drive you crazy
You keep on shoutin’, you keep on shoutin’

I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day

---

Kiss “Rock and Roll All Nite” 1975

HEXN3T , 2 months ago

Yeah but that’s KISS

ptz , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

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