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Music News 

LyricFind highlights black activists who appear in lyrics most often

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black History Month, Lyrics

Black activists, icons, and personalities have shown up a lot in the lyrics of popular music over the last seventy

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Music News 

Random music news for Monday, July 20, 2020

July 20, 2020July 19, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canned Heat, Clash, Concerts, Donald Trump, Drake, Linkin Park, Live Music, LyricFind, Lyrics, Ozzy, Perry Farrell, Ramones, Rockfield Studios, William Shatner

I’ve had the same three twenty-dollar bills in my wallet for six weeks. I have no loose change in the

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Music History 

A short history on the use of the F-bomb in music

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Lyrics

[I got bored constantly writing about COVID-19 for GlobalNews.ca. So I wrote this for them. -AC] It was somewhere around

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Music News 

What’s the type of virtual communication mentioned most in song lyrics? Let’s take a look.

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Lyrics

While everyone has a smartphone these days, how many people actually use them to make voice calls? LyricFind, the Toronto-based

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Music News 

How have song lyrics evolved over the last ten years? Let’s take a look.

December 16, 2019December 15, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2010s, Lyrics

If you were asked which decade provided the most articulate and inventive lyrics in its music, what would you guess?

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Music News 

Year-end review time: 2019’s most popular lyric searches according to LyricFind

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Lyrics

Toronto-based LyricFind is the biggest supplier of licensed song lyrics in the known galaxy. And yes, they keep track of

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Podcast 

Geeks and Beats podcast, episode 252: Kiss this guy

November 6, 2019November 8, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments LyricFind, Lyrics

Lyrics are the most popular and most widely searched music content on the Internet. When listeners bought physical albums, finding

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Music Industry 

Interesting: The most-searched-for lyrics from the summer of 2019

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments LyricFind, Lyrics

LyricFind, the Canadian-based licensor of lyrics (the biggest in the world, apparently) keeps track of what people search for. Here’s

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Controversy 

Post-Labour Day timesuck: A site that creates custom lyrics using AI

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Lyrics, Songwriting, TheseLyricsDoNotExist

Ugh. The day after Labour Day is always the worst. Summer’s over. Back to work. Back to school. Shorter days.

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Music News 

It’s 4/20. Here’s a lyrical analysis of songs that mention weed.

April 20, 2019April 18, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 4/20, Infographic, LyricFind, Lyrics, Weed

LyricFind, the world’s largest licensor of song lyrics, has put together this infographic that shows the top weed name-drops in

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Music News 

It’s not your imagination. Lyrics are getting sadder and angrier.

December 29, 2018December 31, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Lyrics

Live long enough and you’ll begin to notice shifts in culture that happen not over months but years or even

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