re: The lyrics of recent No. 1 singles average at a third grade reading level

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Avenged Sevenfold? Really?

I get what the study is about, but go ahead and pick up a guitar and see what level that is. Those frickers have written some complex songs.

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The folks who came up with this "study" compared apples to natural plant by-products that have mind altering affects. Kiddie pop vs decades old pop. they should be comparing shite like the Beach Boys and whatever mass produced shite of that era.

You know who I didn't see in the long list of yesteryear's literary guard, Lionel Ritchie, Ray Charles, Bob Marley, Jhonny Cash etc..