Are you more literate than a third grader? If your vocabulary is limited to the most popular songs on the
Billboard charts for the past 10 years, then that’s in doubt.
Andrew
Powell-Morse of the data blog SeatSmart compiled the lyrics from 225 of
the most popular songs in the pop, country, rock, and hip-hop genres.
He analyzed them with the Flesch-Kincaid grade index to generate reading
level scores. On average, songs that were popular over the past 10
years were written at the third grade level, but that’s been steadily
dropping over time.
You can see more charts here,
including ones that show gender and genre differences, as well as the
grade levels of specific singers, such as Kanye West and Justin
Timberlake.
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