I do n’t know about you , but sometimes when I ’m make for under the hood of my car , doing some biceps curls at the gymnasium or mow the lawn in my backyard , I find myself humming " Call Me perhaps . " Sure , the only lyric I have it away are the ones Carly Rae Jepsen blab in the chorus line , but I ’m fairly certain those are the only words she talk throughout the entire birdsong . Now there ’s at least some research out there to plump for my hunch . mayhap .
Pop music is getting more repetitious , harmonise toa comprehensive analysisby Colin Morris published onThe Pudding . Morris studiedBillboard Hot 100hits dating back six decades , from 1958 to 2017 . And while he may be a self - described " unemployed computer programmer and deep learning partizan , " Morris says he knows a repetitious melody when he hears one .
Morris used compression analytic thinking to gauge just how much lyrical repetition some of our most darling popstars take part in . For those of us who spend more time heed to euphony than sitting behind a computer , that intend he used an algorithm to review lyrics and account just how much they could be hack down by excrete repeating term . Morris analyzed repetition not just of individual words but also take over lyric sequences . Using a three - year pealing average , he found that repetition in song writing is most definitely on the hike , and recently reached its flower in 2014 , with an average tune from that year press 22 percent more efficiently than one from 1960 . Poke around on Morris ' findings and you may searchhis visualized databy artist , decade and writing style .
Who are the repeating culprit ? Pop artist like Beyonce , Michael Jackson , Madonna and One Directionranked high , though Rihanna ruled sovereign thanks to all of her operose work , work , workplace , work , work . Arists like Ray Charles , Connie Francis , Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatraranked lowfor repeating .
Although Morris deemed Daft Punk ’s 1997 hit " Around the universe " the most insistent pop song in the last 60 or so years – notch an ( un?)impressive 99 percent compression charge per unit – he also bump that four of the top 10 most monotonous jams came from our current decade .
Not on the listing ? " Call Me Maybe . "
