JUST HOW LITERATE IS POP MUSIC... AND HOW LITERATE SHOULD IT BE? (reposted from Facebook)
(The Consequence of Sound's "The Lyrics of recent #1 singles average at a Third Grade Reading Level") I will be the first to admit that the headline of “#1 Songs Written at Third Grade Reading Level” is probably, as are most media headlines, deliberately misleading and sensationalistic. After all, it simply doesn’t seem possible that ALL artists working in the mainstream would be subliterate troglodytes. Idiocracy isn’t set to reach full throttle for another four hundred yea