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decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EChart first, then explanation (click to enlarge):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-RczjGgSu4VU\/VIs3dccjucI\/AAAAAAAALes\/XlZaGN81Ooc\/s1600\/billboard.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-RczjGgSu4VU\/VIs3dccjucI\/AAAAAAAALes\/XlZaGN81Ooc\/s1600\/billboard.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EThe inspiration for this post came from my being too lazy to set my iPod to shuffle, and then noticing it played a bunch of songs in a row from the 1930s and '40s that started with the letters \"in\" (\"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,\" \"In the Still of the Night\", etc.) Naturally, being a data nerd, my first thought was to quantify the phenomenon.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EThe data comes not from Billboard itself, but from \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bullfrogspond.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewww.bullfrogspond.com\u003C\/a\u003E; I don't know much about the data source, but it certainly looks thorough and painstaking, and up to date. If you'd like to know a little more about my methodology (like \u003Cb\u003Ea quick explanation of the metric, \"keyness\"\u003C\/b\u003E), see the code I used and\/or see \u003Cb\u003Ethe actual songs that correspond to these words\u003C\/b\u003E, head on over to my \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/prooffreaderplus.blogspot.ca\/2014\/12\/most-popular-songs-containing-most.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eother, nerdier blog, prooffreaderplus\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003EObservations about the results:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe 2010s seem both more vulgar (\"hell\" and \"fuck\") and more inclusive (\"we\" instead of the \"you\", \"ya\" and \"u\" of the 1990s and 2000s).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe 1990s and 2000s were the decades of neologisms, with \"U\", \"Ya\" and \"Thang\". \"U\" was so popular it occurred twice (but see the note on decade-binning on prooffreaderplus.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFun! Lots of the decades can be made into intelligible five-word sentences. For example: \"Hell Yeah, We Die, Fuck!\" (2010s). \"Ya Breathe It Like U\" (2000s), \"You Get Up, U Thang\" (1990s), \"Don't Rock On Fire, Love\" (1980s), \"Sing, Moon, In A Swing\" (1930s)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAs anyone who listens to the radio in December knows, all the Christmas songs are oldies, and that shows in the results for the 1950s, with \"Christmas\" and \"Red-nosed\".\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou can track genres with the keywords: \"Rag\" (1910s), \"Blues\" (1920s), \"Swing\" (1930s), \"Boogie\", \"Polka\" (1940s), \"Mambo\" (1950s), \"Twist\" (1960s), \"Disco\" (1970s), \"Rock\" (1970s and 1980s). After that, people realized you don't have to actually name the genre in the song title, people can figure it out by listening. (N'Sync must not have gotten that memo for 2001's \"Pop\".)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWho knew Billboard song rankings went back to the 1890s? It was a surprise to me. That fact, and the fact that there are fewer songs then, but not so few as to be negligible, influenced a lot of the choices into how I presented this data (read more here if you want). But those early decades seem to be more focused on first names (\"Michael\", \"Reuben\", \"Casey\"), familial relationships (\"Uncle\", \"Mammy\")\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe first two decades -- the oldest ones compared to now -- both have the keyword \"old\". I blame time travel.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EI find it interesting that there are short, common articles, adverbs, prepositions and pronouncs in the list; these have a higher bar for keyness, since they're present in other decades: \"When\" (1900s), \"A\" (1930s), \"In\" (1930s), \"On\" (1980s), \"Up\" (1990s), \"It\" (2000s)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ENow if you'll excuse me, I'm going to hunt through my iPod to see if there's even one song with \"gems\" in the title; it seems to have been popular in the 1910s.\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.prooffreader.com\/feeds\/8481289717556769510\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.prooffreader.com\/2014\/12\/most-decade-specific-words-in-billboard.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2331431303443143659\/posts\/default\/8481289717556769510"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2331431303443143659\/posts\/default\/8481289717556769510"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.prooffreader.com\/2014\/12\/most-decade-specific-words-in-billboard.html","title":"Most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"David Taylor"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114710737877360929965"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-gsrNrQxYj7g\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAJpk\/lZz_Nw0tiNg\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-RczjGgSu4VU\/VIs3dccjucI\/AAAAAAAALes\/XlZaGN81Ooc\/s72-c\/billboard.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}}]}});