It’s true: Pop music has become more repetitive

Does it ever seem to you that pop song lyrics are getting more repetitive? Evidence of one researcher and an algorithm suggests it’s not your imagination — in fact, it’s measurably true. In an essay on The Pudding, Colin Morris demonstrates repetition by compressing pop songs using the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, the same algorithm that compresses gifs. The algorithm looked for repetition of lines and parts of words, then removed them, reducing the overall size of the song. The chorus of the Sia’s “Cheap Thrills,” for example, was reduced by 46-percent after all repetitions were removed. In total, Morris collected data from 15,000 songs on…

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