O.K., this piece in Slate Magazine is a seemingly pointless piece of fluff. It does not address the problems in Ukraine or Venezuela, which are the guilty concern topics of the day, because nobody even wants to talk about Syria any more. The article does not take any position on global warming, or suggest a solution to the problem of income disparity.
Gerry and the Pacemakers, 1964
That’s cool, I get tired of talking about that shit, too.
It’s the kind of article we are seeing more and more of in this day of massively accumulated information. We can collate statistics like mad and see patterns where we’d never seen patterns before, and there are patterns in everything. (My favorite facebook joke of the day. The B. in Bernard B. Mandlebrot stands for Bernard B. Mandlebrot. lol.)
The article talked about the most common rhymes used in pop songs (and I’ll bet it’s not much different in country songs, or folk songs, or any genre. Rhyme is rhyme. And apparently, the most popular rhyme in music is you and do. When I saw that, I immediately thought of Freddie and the Dreamers singing “How do you do what you do to me, I wish I knew, if I knew how you do it to me, I would do it to you,” circa 1966 (I’m not going to look it up, but that’s definitely within 2 or 3 years). Alas, they were not an important enough group to even be considered in the survey.
(whoops. I did look it up, and it was Gerry and the Pacemakers. A lot of what we remember isn’t true, so how the hell can we trust history?)
It’s not surprising, really. Some combination of words had to be in the top spot. It was obviously going to be some common words. Short, simple words, because they’re easy to rhyme. Also, both do and you can be put at the end of lots of different sentences and still make sense. So, I don’t think it’s surprising. Do you?
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