Do song lyrics live in some sort of privileged place in our memories? Music has a long history of ... We see many such examples even today, in how we teach children the alphabet, numbers, or ...

When comparing today’s hit tunes with ... The ratio of choruses to other song sections rose as well. The study also found that contemporary music lyrics convey more negative emotions and fewer ...

That’s the conclusion of a new study looking at the evolution of song lyrics from 1980 to 2020 ... the researchers say that “more repetitive music is perceived as more fluent and may drive ...