The findings of a study conducted by Andrew Powell-Morse, a specialist in media and marketing data analysis, revealed that most of the US hits from the 2005-2015 period could have be written by pupils aged eight.<\/p>\n
Powell-Morse analyzed the lyrics of 225 songs which occupied the first place in the American Billboard from 2005 to May 2015, applying scientific standards to determine their lexical level.<\/p>\n
The results showed that these hits had the lexical level corresponding to pupils of 2nd grade<\/span>, at most third reading level. Moreover, the yearly average Billboard chart of lexical level highlighted a downward trajectory<\/a> in these last ten years!<\/span><\/p>\n It is very possible that the lexical level to which the youth and the adults expose today themselves reflects to some extent the level of intelligence to which they adhere to and which is sought and “rewarded” by the society.<\/p>\n \u201ePopular music lyrics are dumb\u201d said Powell-Morse.<\/p>\n\n\t\t