You'd think a study with this title would include analysis indicating a relationship between popularity, release date, and repetitiveness of lyrics. It doesn't.

You'd think a study with this title would include analysis indicating a relationship between popularity, release date, and repetitiveness of lyrics. It doesn't. In fact reports no relationship: "As for RQ2 (Which role does the popularity of songs and lyrics play in this scenario?), we conclude that while song listening counts do not show any effects" They don't even use data for popularity over time. They have this information,[2] they just don't use it.[3] It's mind boggling. Your paper advertises that popular music is becoming more repetitive. You have data about which music is most popular over time, but you throw it out and just look at current listen counts. You find current listen counts has no relationship to lyrical repetitiveness. Then you publish your paper. It makes me speechless. [1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x#Tab4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x#Tab4 [2]: http://www.cp.jku.at/datasets/LFM-2b/ http://www.cp.jku.at/datasets/LFM-2b/ [3]: https://zenodo.org/records/7740045 https://zenodo.org/records/7740045