Posted on 05/19/2015 8:46:45 PM PDT by PROCON
Have you ever been driving along, listening to the latest hit song on a Top 20 radio station, and thought, “Man, these lyrics are really dumb?”
Well, you’re not alone.
According to a new study conducted by data wiz Andrew Powell-Morse, the lyrics for the last decade’s No. 1 hit songs average a third-grade reading level. Powell-Morse analyzed 225 songs that had spent three or more weeks atop the Billboard charts in four different genres (R&B/Hip-Hop, Country, Pop, and Rock) and found that a second-grader with slightly higher-than-average reading comprehension skills would have no problem grasping the lyrics.
While the study’s findings seem obvious to anyone who has flipped on a radio in the last few years, there are a number of surprising points in the data.
According to the study, country music is the “smartest” genre lyrically, with an average grade-level of 3.3. Pop and rock tie at 2.9, while today’s hip-hop could be fairly well-understood by a second-grader in the latter half of the school year.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I don’t think we are going to win any Grammy Awards with these lyrics.:)
Why is this no surprise...?
We are almost to that song now. Calipornia IS to that song now for classic car buffs. Jerry is even building the train as we speak.
And I think it’s going to be ... a long long time
‘til touchdown brings me ... round again
I’m not the man ... I think I used to be
Rocketman. sigh
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Polysyllabic words are hard to rhyme and are even harder to sing.
Hoo-gah-cha-ka
Hoo-gah-hoo-gah-hoo-gah cha-ka
Hoo-gah-hoo-gah-hoo-gah cha-ka
Hoo-gah-hoo-gah-hoo-gah cha-ka...
A love song for Obamerica...You’ve been warned ;)
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Trevor-Something/Love-You-Again
Barack Hussien Obama....mmmmm....mmmmm...mmmm
__Go__ —with— __him_____________
I hear that, but I cheated a bit with my lyrics :-)
I HATE that song!
"You're in the desert with nothing to do for THREE DAYS! NAME the ****ing HORSE!"
Brandy, you’re a fine girl
What a good wife, you would be.
But my life, my lover my lady is—
Morgan Fairchild! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
A desert is an ocean with its life underground,
And a perfect disguise above .... huh?
Yeah. They should have named the damned horse and moved on.
“...I HATE that song!” (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Perhaps something in the third grade reading level would be more to your liking?
I was just posting lyrics from #1 songs in the 70’s and 80’s (a period of time not shown on the graph) with vocabulary and structure exceding 3rd grade levels.
Please, post something you like.
Jimi Hendrix
“Third Stone From The Sun”
[Verse 1]
Oh strange beautiful grass of green
with your majestic silken scenes
Your mysterious mountains
I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine
[Verse 2]
Although your world wonders me
with your majestic superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand
So to you I wish to put an end
And you’ll never hear surf music again
No he wasn't. No ... he was not.
Comedian Steve Allen used to parody pop song lyrics..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpxhEoV5IsE
Too bad I couldn’t find where he gave this treatment to Johnnie Taylor’s “Disco Lady” when it was a hit in 1975. Really classic stuff.
Crossing the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn’t see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are
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