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Which singer has the greatest vocabulary?

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Alan Cross 6 Comments Billie Eilish, Lou Reed, Lyrics, Patti Smith

Writing lyrics is hard. Whenever I tried doing something like that, my creations as weaker than rhyming “gin” and “sin,”

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Random music news for Friday, July 23, 2021

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Aerosmith, Anti-Vaxxers, Astronomy, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Gorillaz, Horseshoe, Inhaler, Kid Rock, Lyrics, Republicans, Rickie Lee Jones, Sammy Hagar, Sex Pistols, Smartphones

Into astronomy? This looks like a fantastic new museum. For stars of another sort, here’s music news for July 23,

Just in time for Father’s Day, a couple of infographics that compare musical dads with their musical kids. You’ll see what I mean.

June 19, 2021June 18, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Emotions, LyricFind, Lyrics, Musical Offspring

LyricFind, the Toronto-based licensor of lyrics to sites across the web, is always diving into the nature of lyrics. This

It’s the Canadian May long weekend and people will be gardening. Here are some flowery lyrics data that might help

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Flowers, LyricFind, Lyrics

LyricFind is a Canadian-based company that licenses the use of lyrics online around the world. Given that they have so

LyricFind highlights black activists who appear in lyrics most often

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Alan Cross 2 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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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

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

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

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?

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

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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The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
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