Don't take this too seriously ... it's meant as an illustration ... but the results are genuine. Some word types in Bowie albums correlate with how long they spend in the charts. Dr Nick Troop has ...
Don't take this too seriously ... it's meant as an illustration ... but the results are genuine. Some word types in Bowie albums correlate with how long they spend in the charts. Dr Nick Troop has written a song that amplifies these results, maximising the use of these words to create the "Ideal" Bowie lyric. If you are a songwriter or a wannabe songwriter, go to www.DoctorNick.org to see how you can get involved in research on the psychology of songwriting and its links with health.
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taken with a grain of salt (as in recognizing that he's not trying to claim creation of the perfect bowie song, merely exploring his research on bowie songs further through application) this is really cool
Semi-random I suppose ... in the same way that a lot of people use cut-ups. I randomised the words but then picked out pairs or trios of words that seemed to go together and then linked these with other pairs/trios to build up a lyric. Though certainly impresionistic I think the lyric does make some sort of sense (in spite of what some people are saying).
Have YOU listened to actual Bowie songs? A lot of the time they make absolutely no sense. Bowie himself has claimed he doesn't know what his songs mean because he was strung out on coke when he wrote them.
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Now, were the lyrics constructed through randomness (based on the initial data impute)?
The unexamined.....
Cool stuff....
the song wouldn't sound out of place on the hunky dory album