New research has revealed that pop music lyrics really have been dumbed down over the last 40 years.
The words in English-language tracks have become ‘simpler’ and ‘more repetitive’ since 1980, say scientists.
Dr Eva Zangerle and her colleagues analysed the lyrics of 12,000 English-language rap, country, pop, R&B, and rock songs released between 1980 and 2020. They looked at 2,400 songs from each of the five genres.
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