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 ...
You know you’re in for some classic lyrics when the band sings “The heat was hot...”.
Ever wonder what would happen if Jimi was a Green Acres fan?
Elvis Hitler knows...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgxJsjqkg
Oh boy, we were on the same page, but you beat me to it!
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
It's just one word. Because drugs.
But mannnn ...don’t be square. You gotta look at like...the deeper meanings of the syllables and stuff....(inhales deeply)
It’s beautiful man....YOU’RE beautiful mannn...Don’t bogart the joint mannn....
/Obama in high school
Dressed up like a Nazi storm trooper,
Tryin’ hard to look like Oberststuhrmfuehrer Gary “PanzerMayer” Cooper
Puttin’ on the Ritz!
Mein Fuehrer: Ich can gooseshteppen!
In 1953 Arthur Hamilton used “plebeian” in a hit song.
The jazz age had quite a bit more sophistication than today’s lyrics.
Beat you by one minute and 25 seconds!!
Dude, how can you compare such drivel of the past to a lyrical master like Kanye West? He’s practically the Bach of the spoken word!
;)
Think of London, a small city
It's dark, dark in the daytime
The people sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to
[Chorus:]
I'm checking them out
I'm checking them out
I got it figured out
I got it figured out
There's good points and bad points
Find a city
Find myself a city to live in.
There are a lot of rich people in Birmingham
A lot of ghosts in a lot of houses
Look over there!...A dry ice factory
A good place to get some thinking done
Down El Paso way things get pretty spread out
People got no idea where in the world they are
They go up north and come back south
Still got no idea where in the world they are.
Did I forget to mention, to mention Memphis
Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
Do I smell? I smell home cooking
It's only the river, it's only the river.
Shake it up, shake it down
Move it in, move it round, disco lady
Move it in, move it out, move it in round about, disco lady
Shake it up, shake it down
Move it in, move it around, disco lady
Well, hey sexy lady
Said I like the way you do your thang
Lord have mercy girl
You dance so fine and you're right on time
Girl you ought to be on T.V., on Soul Train
When you get the groove there ain't no stoppin'
Just can't help it, but I'm finger poppin'
Shake it up, shake it down,
move it in, move it round, disco lady
Move it in, move it round,
move it in, round about, disco lady
Shake it baby shake it, baby shake your thang
Shake it baby shake it, baby shake your thang
hiphop/rap would be 3rd grade in reform school
Don’t give up until you, drink from the silver cup
You’ll never know until you try.
And then one of the boys whispers this breathy “Hit it!” and they give the old 12 string a real workout.
Segue into: “I need you, like the flower needs the rain.”
We were desperate for some relief from riots/civil strife, impeachment, Carter and body counts, and most imp. chicks liked it/thought we were sensitive—those are the only things I can think of to excuse listening to this stuff.
I'm tellin' you to warn that Cindy Sheehan
And all the rest of you plebeians,
The Ukraine won't be European,
Because I'm takin' the Crimean
Pen·in·su·lee
Pen·in·su·lie
Pen·in·su·la
Pen·in·su·lo -oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Pen·in·su·lee
Pen·in·su·lie
My Spetsnaz will attack!
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You forgot "being too wasted to actually figure out how to pull a cartridge out of an 8-track player."
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now. It's just a spring clean for the May Queen."
Nah, no one would want to hear that.
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