Random music news for Monday, September 23, 2024
Ever wonder what a black hole sounds like? This. And the loudest sound in history was probably about 310 db. Here’s what music news for September 23, 2024, looks like. More music news?
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Lyrics
Here’s another look at the changing lyrical content of popular music. Is it really getting dumber?
Over the last decade or so, there’s been a number of studies into the lyrical content of popular music with most of them postulating that things are getting dumber (here’s an example.) But
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Random music news for Friday, June 7, 2024
People are revisiting a 1995 list in GQ that roasted certain things as “over-rated.” This list has not aged well. We’ll see how music news for June 7, 2024, will be regarded in
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Our adorably naive opera singer is stumped by Eddie Vedder and “Yellow Ledbetter”
Viewers of Elizabeth Zharoff‘s “The Charismatic Voice” YouTube channel are forever sending her songs that she needs to check out. This makes for some fun reaction videos because she’s never heard most of
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Ongoing History Daily: Music and lyrics are getting dumber
Are song lyrics getting simpler and dumber or is that just your imagination? It’s not. New research out of Germany and Austria that examined the lyrics of 335,320 song lyrics written in English
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Get the feeling that today’s music is kinda…dumb? You may be correct.
It’s official: Today’s popular music isn’t what it used to be. This is the conclusion of some new research into the genre. Let’s deconstruct these findings. A group led by Dr Eva Zangerle
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The “Hotel California” lyrics theft case has been dismissed. Sorry, Don Henley.
Decades ago, Don Henley handed over about 100 legal pad pages of notes on the creation of the Hotel California album, a record that would eventually become the third-biggest selling of all time
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Random music news for Friday, December 8, 2023
I swear if I hear that Kars for Kids jingle ONE MORE TIME the dark mist may descend before my eyes. I will not be held responsible for my insane actions. Fortunately, I
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There’s been a study of which bands and song lyrics are used for captions on social media
Are you an addicted TikToker? If you are, thanks for taking some time away from scrolling through videos for these important study results. A new study that surveyed 1,004 Americans tried to uncover
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Ongoing History Daily: The cities that create the most musical inspiration
There are thousands of songs that namecheck various cities around the planet. A new survey went through a big, long list of song titles, names of albums, and lyrics to find which cities
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Random music news for Monday, November 13, 2023
Rotten Tomatoes has a new list of the 100 worst movies of all time. Here’s a list of music news items for November 13, 2023. There aren’t a lot of stinkers. More music
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