Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pop music is built for immediacy. Its melodies are designed to move quickly, to register emotionally before the lyrics fully land.

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Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...

Songs have gotten more repetitive and angrier since the 1980s, according to a new study, furthering research that suggested songs have gotten shorter, simpler and more negative over the years due to ...