Pop Music
Useful Science
English - July 04, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsScience Education science parenting education creativity productivity environment health fitness nutrition happiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week we're talking about pop music.
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Show Notes
From 1986 to 2016, billboard-reaching pop music songs became more "attention grabbing" with faster tempos, shorter titles, less time before singing began, and less time before the title of the song was mentioned.
From 2014 to 2016, songs with atypical lyrics (lyrics that defied genre conventions) were downloaded more on large streaming services than songs with typical lyrics.