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Old people were right: Today's music isn't what it used to be 🎵🧓👵
😶 The lyrics are simpler.
🔂 They’re more repetitive.
😡 They’re angrier.
🙋♂️🙋♀️ And they’re more personal (all about ‘me, me, me’).
That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 350k songs by computer scientist Eva Zangerle and her team at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
It's a worrying development. And the question is — why is this happening? 🤔
Listen in to find out (or least hear some wild speculation) 🎙️🔊
Questions? Suggestions? Random thoughts & no one to share with? Leave a comment or email us at su@dw.com! 📝📧🗣️📧
Subscribe to this podcast 👉 pod.link/scienceunscripted
📝 STUDY: Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades - nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x
Chapters:
00:00 Gabe introduces today’s topic by telling Conor he went to a Dave Matthews Band concert in Cologne, Germany.
01:42 Meet Computer scientist Eva Zangerle: Are songs getting stupider?
02:25 What songs were analyzed? Over what period of time?
03:30 What other changes were observed from the analysis?
04:48 Why is music becoming simpler?
06:12 Is society getting dumber?
06:36 What is Eva’s favorite song? What are her examples of how music has become simpler?
07:42 What are Conor and Gabe’s examples of how music has become simpler? (Or not?)
Old people were right: Today's music isn't what it used to be 🎵🧓👵
😶 The lyrics are simpler.
🔂 They’re more repetitive.
😡 They’re angrier.
🙋♂️🙋♀️ And they’re more personal (all about ‘me, me, me’).
That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 350k songs by computer scientist Eva Zangerle and her team at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
It's a worrying development. And the question is — why is this happening? 🤔
Listen in to find out (or least hear some wild speculation) 🎙️🔊
Questions? Suggestions? Random thoughts & no one to share with? Leave a comment or email us at su@dw.com! 📝📧🗣️📧
Subscribe to this podcast 👉 pod.link/scienceunscripted
📝 STUDY: Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades - nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x
Chapters:
00:00 Gabe introduces today’s topic by telling Conor he went to a Dave Matthews Band concert in Cologne, Germany.
01:42 Meet Computer scientist Eva Zangerle: Are songs getting stupider?
02:25 What songs were analyzed? Over what period of time?
03:30 What other changes were observed from the analysis?
04:48 Why is music becoming simpler?
06:12 Is society getting dumber?
06:36 What is Eva’s favorite song? What are her examples of how music has become simpler?
07:42 What are Conor and Gabe’s examples of how music has become simpler? (Or not?)
