tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594832939334410220.post2203176683020414185..comments2024-02-12T06:23:51.153-06:00Comments on Deeply Trivial: What Makes a Song (More) PopularUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594832939334410220.post-15002642499774202902018-05-18T21:28:01.981-05:002018-05-18T21:28:01.981-05:00To me, the content of songs and other music with w...To me, the content of songs and other music with words, like opera arias, is 96% music and 4% words. So I am totally outside the population these findings apply to, because I basically don't care what the words are. Popular songs aren't poetry, although I recall readings of Bob Dylan words as if they were, which IMO is silly. I suspect I am not the only one who is attracted to music and doesn't care what the words are. You might weight your findings by the % of listeners who are fixated on the words, if you can determine that.<br /><br />Jim Geissman<br />Van Nuys, CAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com