{"id":4875,"date":"2012-06-18T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2012-06-18T01:52:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T05:52:29","slug":"music-has-become-sadder-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/music-has-become-sadder-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Has Become Sadder Over The Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/061812_0431_MusicHasBec1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"normal-sortables\" class=\"meta-box-sortables ui-sortable\"><\/div>\n<p>Our music has been getting sadder over the years reports Tom Jacobs. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to researchers the lyrics of popular music have become more self-focused and negative over time.<\/li>\n<li>Since the 1960s a greater proportion of songs are written in minor modes \u2013 regarded as sadder than major modes. In fact the number of songs written in minor modes has doubled.<\/li>\n<li>The average tempo of songs has also decreased over time, and they reached their low in the 1990s.<\/li>\n<li>The trend in the slowdown of music tempo has been more pronounced in major-mode songs \u2013 suggesting that music has become more emotionally ambiguous.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of female artists leading the charts has also risen although it peaked in the 1990s.<\/li>\n<li>Lady Gaga has bucked the trend. She has fast-tempo major mode recordings that have been popular.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about how how this parallels the evolution of classical music from 1600 to 1900, how this relates to Aqua&#8217;s Barbie Girl, what this means for baby boomers and doomsayers, and more details of the methodology of the study, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/culture\/pop-music-getting-sadder-and-sadder-42382\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/culture\/pop-music-getting-sadder-and-sadder-42382\/\">Pacific Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/06\/is-popular-music-becoming-sadder.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our music has been getting sadder over the years reports Tom Jacobs. Highlights include: According to researchers the lyrics of popular music have become more self-focused and negative over time. Since the 1960s a greater proportion of songs are written in minor modes \u2013 regarded as sadder than major modes. In fact the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/061812_0431_MusicHasBec1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}