A new study from the journal Scientific Reports has found that the lyrics of pop music have become simpler, angrier, more repetitive, more negative emotionally, and more personal in content over the last fifty years.
The five researchers who contributed to the report analyzed the lyrics of five different genres (rock, country, pop, rap, and R&B) of popular music, looking at complexity, structure, emotion, and popularity. They found that the “lexical complexity” (in terms of breadth of vocabulary and transparency of meaning) of lyrics has decreased and that the emotions expressed have become more negative and the stories told more personal to the singer
The steepest increase in lyrical repetitiveness has been in rap, while the slightest increase was in country. Rap, however, remains less repetitive than country, and the least repetitive overall. The most repetitive genre is pop.
מוזיקה כולה נהייתה כולה רפפטיבית אבל פופ הושפע הכי חזק והכי פחות זה ראפ