If you can’t stand to listen to anything that “kids these days” are into, then it’s not just you. You can stop feeling old. It’s actually the SONGS that are getting worse!?
If you listen to many of the most popular songs released in the last few years, they may be catchy, but lyrically… not so much. A new study has recently shown a massive decline in songwriting skills over the past 40 years. According to NY Post, a team of researchers from Europe pored over the words to roughly 12,000 songs in English across a variety of genres from rap to rock to R&B, written between 1980 and 2020.
In conclusion, the study found that lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, angrier, and more “self-obsessed.”
So, by definition of this study, technically the older music we know and love is “better!” Read more from NY Post HERE.
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