Collaboration, cognitive effort, and self-reference in United Kingdom top 5 pop music lyrics 1960–2015.

The present research conducted a computerised analysis of the content of all lyrics from the United Kingdom’s weekly top 5 singles sales charts (Study 1, 1962–2011), and considered their macroeconomic correlates (Study 2, 1960–2011). Study 1 showed that coverage of interpersonal relationships consistently reflected a self-centred and unsophisticated approach; coverage of violence featured predominantly anti-authoritarian denial rather than overt depictions; and more recent lyrics were more stimulating. Study 2 showed no evidence that variations in lyrical optimism predicted future variations in economic optimism and subsequently Gross Domestic Product; but, consistent with the environmental security hypothesis, economic turbulence (defined as volatility in the closing price of the London Stock Exchange) was associated with the later popularity of lyrics concerning certainty and succour. These findings are discussed in terms of the advantages and limitations of computerised coding of lyrics.

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Analysis of Eyeblink Activity during Self-Referent Information Processing in Mild Depression

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1995.81.3f.1219 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 81 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1219-1229 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Hideki Ohdra

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Cognitive Load ◽

Cognitive Effort ◽

Attentional Resource ◽

Eyeblink Response ◽

Discrete Trial ◽

Mild Depression ◽

Burst Pattern ◽

Negative Trait ◽

Self Reference

This study was designed to assess characteristics of self-referent information processing in mildly depressed persons using the eyeblink response measured in a discrete-trial paradigm. 7 mildly depressed and 9 nondepressed subjects (classified by scores on Beck's inventory) performed a self-reference task for positive and negative trait adjectives. The eyeblink was suppressed before and during presentation of stimuli and a burst pattern of the eyeblink was observed just after exposure. The pattern of the eyeblink burst after trait adjectives could be interpreted to reflect cognitive effort, cognitive load, or amount of attentional resource. Present results suggested that depressed individuals should have less cognitive load or allocate less attentional resource to negative stimuli than to positive ones during self-referent information processing.

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Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychology of Music ◽

10.1177/03057356211045114 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 030573562110451

Author(s):

Kaila C Putter ◽

Amanda E Krause ◽

Adrian C North

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Popular Music ◽

Positive Association ◽

Emotional Valence ◽

The United States ◽

Emotional Content ◽

Human Interest ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Music Lyrics

A limited amount of previous research suggests that deteriorating socioeconomic conditions may be associated with greater popularity of music lyrics featuring negative emotional content and references to relationships. The present research considered this in charting popular music before and during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. A dataset based on the song lyrics of the top-5 charting weekly songs in the United Kingdom and the United States from January 1999 to August 2020 was computer-analyzed for interpersonal variables, such as satisfaction and human interest, and positive and negative emotional valence. Results indicated lower satisfaction and human interest in lyrics in the United States and United Kingdom in the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the lyrics in charting songs in 2015–2019. The US charting songs in 2020 also saw higher leveling and negative emotional content, and, when considering monthly data from 1999 to 2020, there was a positive association between economic misery and the number of negatively valenced words. The findings broaden our understanding of the relationship between significant global events and trends in popular music.

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An Ecolinguistics Analysis of Indonesian Pop Music Lyrics on Environment:A Review of Two Nature Songs

Journal of Physics Conference Series ◽

10.1088/1742-6596/1655/1/012129 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1655 ◽

pp. 012129

Author(s):

Jismulatif ◽

Dahnilsyah ◽

Mangatur Sinaga

Keyword(s):

Pop Music ◽

Music Lyrics

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Homeland's Agenda: Electoral Autocracy (The Venezuelan Case, 2016)

ARTMargins ◽

10.1162/artm_a_00220 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 88-103

Author(s):

Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck ◽

Ana Alenso

Keyword(s):

Pop Music ◽

Humanitarian Crisis ◽

Complex Situation ◽

Bearing Witness ◽

The Media ◽

Music Lyrics ◽

The Military ◽

Geopolitical Context

Homeland's Agenda: Electoral Autocracy (The Venezuelan Case, 2016), a video-collage transcript, creates a general equivalence of media—public government broadcasting, propaganda, diverse Internet corporate news channels, pop music lyrics, video testimonials of disparate polish—so that each successive clip does not dominate the others. The result is a distillation of content lead by form and supported by a transcript translation that reveals a complex situation that is otherwise unreachable for audiences not initiated into the Venezuelan geopolitical context. The sourced material spans the period from 2011 to 2016, bearing witness to the emergence of a national humanitarian crisis and ensuing civil protests that, in 2017, prompted government repression by means of the police, the military, and the media.

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Songs As Branding Platforms? A Historical Analysis of People, Places, and Products in Pop Music Lyrics

Journal of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association ◽

10.25101/14.2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 39-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Storm Gloor

Keyword(s):

Historical Analysis ◽

Pop Music ◽

Music Lyrics

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Cognitive Processing of Miscommunication in Interactive Listening: An Evaluation of Listener Indecision and Cognitive Effort

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00128 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Jennifer M. Roche ◽

Arkady Zgonnikov ◽

Laura M. Morett

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Cognitive Processing ◽

Language Processing ◽

Cognitive Effort ◽

Mouse Tracking ◽

Computer Mouse ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Computer Mouse Tracking ◽

Listening Task ◽

Processing Effort

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the social and cognitive underpinnings of miscommunication during an interactive listening task. Method An eye and computer mouse–tracking visual-world paradigm was used to investigate how a listener's cognitive effort (local and global) and decision-making processes were affected by a speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication. Results Experiments 1 and 2 found that an environmental cue that made a miscommunication more or less salient impacted listener language processing effort (eye-tracking). Experiment 2 also indicated that listeners may develop different processing heuristics dependent upon the speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication, exerting a significant impact on cognition and decision making. We also found that perspective-taking effort and decision-making complexity metrics (computer mouse tracking) predict language processing effort, indicating that instances of miscommunication produced cognitive consequences of indecision, thinking, and cognitive pull. Conclusion Together, these results indicate that listeners behave both reciprocally and adaptively when miscommunications occur, but the way they respond is largely dependent upon the type of ambiguity and how often it is produced by the speaker.

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