Music is a huge piece of the control grid. Why is there such little innovation? Why are the same 35 songs playing on the classic rock station? It is all by design. It is literally psychological warfare.
Man is created in the divine image. If you give people their god you give the their image.
It was still a joke when, in the 80ies "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders", the Caponians used a Mind Bending Machine to dumb down humans. Today, it should be seen as prophetic.
It has become fashionable to "debunk" instantly when someone says "I have a feeling lyrics and music are getting dumber and dumber" ("your gut is not a scientific device"), so it is nice to have the idiocy measured in comparable numbers.
I remember reading something about this in a book about habits, how humans refuse to listen to musics that aren't familiar. I really dislike billboards.
I wonder how metal music would rate.
Most of the metal bands I listen to speak of intelligent thought provoking material. Albeit most can't understand it, it's still better than whatever pop bullshit is on the charts.
My personal favorite metal band is The Black Dahlia Murder. Their vocalist is a fucking poet.
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9 RMFN 2015-09-04
Music is a huge piece of the control grid. Why is there such little innovation? Why are the same 35 songs playing on the classic rock station? It is all by design. It is literally psychological warfare.
Man is created in the divine image. If you give people their god you give the their image.
8 pilliap 2015-09-04
Amen.
1 Shillyourself 2015-09-04
All about that bass...
3 zeropoint357 2015-09-04
The only music that interests me anymore is made around campfires.
3 Akareyon 2015-09-04
It was still a joke when, in the 80ies "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders", the Caponians used a Mind Bending Machine to dumb down humans. Today, it should be seen as prophetic.
It has become fashionable to "debunk" instantly when someone says "I have a feeling lyrics and music are getting dumber and dumber" ("your gut is not a scientific device"), so it is nice to have the idiocy measured in comparable numbers.
Thanks for a relevant post!
2 rhombic_pentameter 2015-09-04
Do you have a link to that study, by any chance? Or at least a formal citation? I'd like to read it.
1 kmcclry 2015-09-04
Same here. I want to know the methodology for measuring lyrical complexity.
2 Idontgrammer 2015-09-04
3.3 seems kind of high for country.
1 chaos70 2015-09-04
I remember reading something about this in a book about habits, how humans refuse to listen to musics that aren't familiar. I really dislike billboards.
0 LordMandrake_ 2015-09-04
I wonder how metal music would rate. Most of the metal bands I listen to speak of intelligent thought provoking material. Albeit most can't understand it, it's still better than whatever pop bullshit is on the charts. My personal favorite metal band is The Black Dahlia Murder. Their vocalist is a fucking poet.