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Repetition Equals Money

"REPETITION EQUALS MONEY" Arch and I agree that, for the most part, repetitive pop and country music sucks.  Turns out that repetitive music is the best-selling, the most palatable to the masses, and is mostly confined to three genres:  hip-hop, pop, and country. This article by Colin Morris, "Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?", is amazeballs.  It quantitatively analyzes the repetitive quality of song lyrics and how much of them could be removed to represent (basically) an original-to-repeated ratio, which the author calls Compression.  Seriously read this s**t right now. https://pudding.cool/2017/05/ song-repetition/ This is right up the alley of my experience with discourse analysis and quantitative linguistics analysis of writers from my undergrad courses.  A simplified example of it would be that an author using passive language about body parts, like "her eyes rolled away from him while her mouth began to relax apathetically," might have depress...
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Preamble and Introductions

Here's the gouge:  two buddies with way better taste in music than others want an outlet to write about it for no reason at all.  Good friends are few and far between and good taste in music is no different, so we write this in the hope that our sons read it or that it's a better way to spend our time than bingeing network television.  Plus, buddies gon' bond. Preamble.... We the Snob homies of Reno, in order to form a more perfect Bond from across the States, establish Taste, ensure musical Sanity, provide for the common sense, promote the general Awareness, and secure the history of our Thought Process to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Snobs on Music Blog in the hopes that we keep rocking.
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