This has serious “Get off my lawn!” vibes lol
The peaks of genre/subculture popularity are not, necessarily, mainstream.
"Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby, Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe"
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
De-do-do-do, de-da-da-da
Is all I want to say to you
De-do-do-do, de-da-da-da
Their innocence will pull me through
De-do-do-do, de-da-da-da
Is all I want to say to you
De-do-do-do, de-da-da-da
They're meaningless and all that's true
The fact that it became a chart hit only proved his point - kinda like the cow clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
And just in case that didn't hammer it home, the remastered video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm97VG_QIXI
Notice how bored everyone looks. The sheer lack of energy. The guy pausing to light a cigarette and mount it on his guitar. The repetitive wave of the "audience" that holds awful, amateurish drawings of their faces (i.e. any moron with a synth could produce this crap).
It's a bit like looking at Picasso's bull in a grotesquely comical way...
A team of European researchers analysed the words in more than 12,000 English-language songs across the genres of rap, country, pop, R&B and rock from 1980 to 2020.
Regardless, it's hard to deny that PhD's today have been dumbed to a three minute music video level ( /s ):
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop...
https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/
https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove...
Honestly thank god for J pop and K pop at least I can't understand a word of it.
Well that's not the case. They use a lot of English. It's Easter. Have some chocolate: