Aw, thanks! 
It’s a fun little song, isn’t it?
This is another good one for the thread:
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It’s time to mention Donald Knuth’s paper ‘The Complexity of Songs’ from back in 1984. It was published in the Communications of the ACM. You can read it here:
http://www.professores.uff.br/jcoelho/diversos/knuth_song_complexity.pdf
It’s pretty funny.
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Colin Morris at The Pudding analyzed the repetitiveness of a dataset of 15,000 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1958 and 2017.
It could be argued that 100 songs per chart is statistically not a very significant sampling, as it does not come close to describing most (or even many) pop songs. Perhaps billboard or radio stations prefer and/or push songs with repetitive lyrics.
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Did anyone ever set Gertrude Stein’s Making of Americans to a beat? Oh, shit, this comment started as a joke, but…but now…
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Thank you. A truly wonderful thing.
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So mathy! Much Wow!
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Yes. They are going to push what they know is going to make money. The recording industry is pretty conservative in that regard. Independent labels have always been laboratories for the majors to figure out what sells and what doesn’t (jazz, rock, punk, and hip-hop, etc, all percolated in independent labels well before the majors got interested in them). But on top of that, they are going to push their artists, not necessarily what music is the “best.”
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