Here are the lyrics , if you're not familiar with the song. Check out some of the others below. Intuitively, Around The World definitely feels like a very repetitive song. This inspires some confidence in the metric I'm using. So, is music getting more repetitive? The current decade is pretty well-represented in the top 10 above, but it's also a bit overrepresented in my dataset it's easier to find lyrics for recent songs. We'll need to look at a lot more data to be sure In , the average song is By , disco has reached the peak of its popularity.
The songs that reached the top 10 were, on average, more repetitive than the rest in every year from to ! Let's look at the average repetitiveness of some prolific artists in the dataset those that have at least 15 charting songs as solo artists. Genre does seem like a differentiating factor here. In the 00's, our artists actually separate pretty cleanly into two clusters, with country music and hip-hop and whatever John Mayer does on the left, and pop and rock on the right.
The variation between artists is considerable. Let's zoom in on a specific artist, say Gwen Stefani. Each circle below represents a song in her discography. The background blob is the histogram of all songs in the dataset the same one as before, but mirrored. On average, Gwen's music is extremely repetitive, but there's a wide spread between the incessantly repetitive "Hollaback Girl", and the laid-back ballad "Cool", which is far less repetitive than the median song in the dataset.
You can search for your favorite artist in the dropdown above. A few interesting examples click an artist's name to jump to their chart :. Measuring Repetitive Lyrics With Compression. The Repetition of Pop Music Distribution of compressibility of 15, songs from to , excluding 20 outliers. Repetition of Popular Music, by Year. Sample: Knock, knock, knock, knock Knock, knock, knock, knock Crazy little mama come knocking Knocking at my front door Crazy little mama come knocking Knocking at my front door.
I want to stop playing all The silly little games you and me play And I'm feeling right on If you feel the same way, baby Let me know right away I'd love to make you wet In between your thighs, 'cause I love when it comes inside you I get so excited when I'm around you, yeah, baby Oh, ah, oh, baby How does it feel? Ah, feels, yeah How does it feel?
Tell me how it feels, yeah How does it feel? Said, it's been on my mind How does it feel? Yeah, oh, oh How does it feel? Yeah, ooh Long time Said, it's been on my mind, yeah Baby, close the door Listen, girl, I've got a thing I hope to show you I wish you'd open up 'cause I want to take the walls down with you Oh, yeah Edit Lyrics.
Untitled How Does It Feel song meanings. Add Your Thoughts 10 Comments. General Comment such a great mellow song, i love it! D'Angelo has got one great body!!! I love the soft tone of the song, with his voice, just makes it a great song in my mind. No Replies Log in to reply.
There was an error. General Comment This song is so freaking relaxing. General Comment Yeah.. It is a great icebreaking song General Comment this is a fantastic song. The style of it is very similar to Prince cervante on March 03, Link. General Comment man oh man and who could forget the super music video?
General Comment its nice He writes his own stuff and his voice is so good and differant that it cannot be ignored no matter what music you're into. This is a great song with really straightforward lyrics, which i like. General Comment If you have the 7 minute version And I wonder why he made it 7 minutes? I think I can guess. Amazing, I love it. Musical Jenny on February 10, Link. Musical Jenny.
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