March 14th, 2008, 04:30 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Pueblo, Colorado
Age: 55
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Are Excessive Lyrics Ruining Pop Music?
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"Pop music has become ever more long-winded. The year-end top 10 songs from 1960 to 1969 have an average word count of 176. For the 1970s, the figure jumps to 244. In 2007, the average climbed to 436. The top 10 for the week of Feb. 2, 2008, features six songs over the 500-word mark. Chris Brown and T-Pain use 742 words in their "Kiss Kiss." While music can express what words cannot, music rarely gets a chance in contemporary pop, and certainly not in "Kiss Kiss." Except for the first two seconds, vocals fill the song's every moment. Entirely absent are instrumental phrasings that allow a song (and singers) to breathe."
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--William Weir--
I think people are afraid that if the singing stops they'll have to listen to Kenny G.
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