Catch the first Video Musical Talmud, on the song you were probably singing in your head before you read this.
The Musical Talmud – “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen
Lyrics on Overthinking It
Why “Sweet Home Alabama” Is The Most Effective Protest Song of All Time
“The Rainbow Connection”: Just How Many Songs Are There About Rainbows?
The Musical Talmud: “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO
The Musical Talmud: “Hold It Against Me” by Britney Spears
The Musical Talmud: Economic Themes in “Mine” by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift on social mobility, private property, and rebellion of maintaining the status quo.
The Musical Talmud: “One Less Lonely Girl” by Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber shows us the path out of America’s recession through auto-tune and baby-faced good looks.
The Musical Talmud, Think/Counter-Think Edition: “Party in the USA”
The Musical Talmud: I Gotta Feeling
A series of non sequitur party-related cliches, or a treatise on power and predeterminism? (It can be both, I suppose).
Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift
We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis.