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| Lone Wolf is a one man band; he can do everything; too bad he's also not a woman |
Science now says that hit songs are sung by women and more danceable, although I'm not sure what that means. Also, despite this, sad songs have increased in the past 30 years. Granted, the research database was for 500,000 songs released in Britain 1985-2015. So at first glance, I wonder how much of the world's hip hop, which is the dominant musical form, comes from Britain.
And don't forget this - "A previous study covering 1980-2007 found that music lyrics have become more self-centred, with increased use of the words "me" and "I", fewer social words such as "we", and more anti-social ones such as "hate" and "kill"."
Notes
Happiness makes hit songs: study
May 2018, phys.org
Musical trends and predictability of success in contemporary songs on and off the top charts, Royal Society Open Science, doi
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