{"id":11557,"date":"2021-08-05T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11557"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:48:59","slug":"musical-vocabularies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/05\/musical-vocabularies\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Vocabularies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/daily_brief\/music\/musicians-biggest-and-smallest-vocabularies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Musicians With the Biggest (And Smallest) Vocabularies<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study determined which artists use the most unique words in their songs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/bonnie\">BONNIE STIERNBERG<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INXS - Mediate\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFUEgFdP5zE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know that when it comes to song lyrics, some artists are more verbose than others. Some like to keep it simple, while others use a slew of SAT words to paint a vivid picture and get their point across. Some artists even go as far as making up their own words (\u201cMMMBop,\u201d anyone?). But which artists have really gone above and beyond when it comes to their catalog\u2019s lexicon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/digg.com\/2021\/pop-singers-sorted-by-the-size-of-their-vocabulary-visualized\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digg points out<\/a>, word search tool Wordtips sought to answer that question by combing through the lyrics of Spotify\u2019s \u201cmost listened-to singers\u201d as well as the artists named on&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s \u201c100 Greatest Singers of All Time\u201d list to determine which ones used the most unique words per 1,000 words. (They excluded songs on which the singers did not have writing credits.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They pored through 17,667 songs performed by 156 artists and found that Patti Smith has the best vocabulary of them all, with 217 unique words per 1,000 words in her lyrics. (That shouldn\u2019t be too surprising to anyone familiar with Smith\u2019s work.) Joni Mitchell and Bj\u00f6rk came in second and third place, with 199 and 197 unique words per 1,000 words respectively, while Jim Morrison and Billie Eilish round out the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/daily_brief\/music\/musicians-biggest-and-smallest-vocabularies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook The Musicians With the Biggest (And Smallest) Vocabularies A new study determined which artists use the most unique words in their songs BY\u00a0BONNIE STIERNBERG We all know that when it comes to song lyrics, some artists are more verbose than others. Some like to keep it simple, while others use a slew of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}