“Yeah! Baby! Let’s Polka that thang all night long!” I mean, when last did you hear a song that goes: Oops! I slipped back to the 1940’s with those last three. Woman (Oh! My girl’s all grown up! What a lot of letters she has now!).Looks for more popular song words for music inspirations. It was all the times I used “the.” Next time, I’ll leave it out.” Gets booed off stage for being a spoilsport. “Nonsense! It’s a great song! It has all the best words in it!” What if I give you a whole bunch more words? Will you let me write my song then? Here goes at rapid fire.)Īhem. Girl (There! My song has a girl in it! Better? No? Onward!).Feel (Aw, c’mon! Are you saying I can’t just use “Love,” “Yeah,” and “Feel” as the only words longer than three letters in my song? No fair! I thought I was getting real artistic depth there.Yeah (Now there’s a great word! You can write a whole song… Noooo! I promise I won’t! Just saying! Put down that baseball bat!).For instance, “dark, black, bloody, thunder, fire, ice, and angels” all sound like they fit into gothic or metal genres, but we’ll take a broader overview. You’ll also find words are rather genre specific. You aren’t going to find a lot of Shakespeare in most popular song lyrics. The first thing you’ll likely notice is popular words in songs tend to be short. And in case you’re wondering, I’ve seen it done, and it works!īefore we can start generating phrases, we need the words.
You know: list of first lines, list of second lines, list of third lines – join the dots between them and combine them anyhow you like, and voila! One perfect song lyric. If I can find enough, I can make a song generator. Owing to the stiff critique my first ever song lyric faced, I decided to look for other words that are popular in songs. Wounded! In the Interests of Linguistics, Science and Music Are you writing a song? Would you like it to be really catchy? Why not go with what works for everyone, and use the most popular words found in hit songs? If you’re wondering whether there actually are words that songwriters continually resort to, it won’t take you long to hit on the word “love.” I have no idea how many songs contain that word, but I’m ready to bet they number in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions!ĪLRIGHT ALREADY! I’ll stop! Please don’t hit me over the head again! I thought it was an absolutely brilliant lyric… My artistic sensibilities are wounded, I tell you.
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