What Are the Most Popular Words in Songs

What Are the Most Popular Words in Songs 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 youre wondering whether there actually are words that songwriters continually resort to, it wont take you long to hit on the word love. I have no idea how many songs contain that word, but Im ready to bet they number in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions! Heres a great song lyric: Love, love, love Love, love, love I got love You got love We got love Everybodys got looooooove! ALRIGHT ALREADY! Ill stop! Please dont hit me over the head again! I thought it was an absolutely brilliant lyric My artistic sensibilities are wounded, I tell you. Wounded! In the Interests of Linguistics, Science and Music Owing to the stiff critique my first ever song lyric faced, I decided to look for other words that are popular in songs. If I can find enough, I can make a song generator. 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. And in case youre wondering, Ive seen it done, and it works! Before we can start generating phrases, we need the words. The first thing youll likely notice is popular words in songs tend to be short. You arent going to find a lot of Shakespeare in most popular song lyrics. Youll also find words are rather genre specific. For instance, dark, black, bloody, thunder, fire, ice, and angels all sound like they fit into gothic or metal genres, but well take a broader overview. Yeah (Now theres a great word! You can write a whole song Noooo! I promise I wont! Just saying! Put down that baseball bat!) Feel (Aw, cmon! Are you saying I cant 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. So what if I added.) Girl (There! My song has a girl in it! Better? No? Onward!) Heart (What, you want more? Ok. What if I give you a whole bunch more words? Will you let me write my song then? Here goes at rapid fire.) Take Life Back Never Die Away Give Time Night Day Man Dream World Little Song Attempt Number Two Ahem. Pretends to tune guitar. Gets up close to mic. Closes eyes. Opens mouth. Sings: Oh yeah! Can you feel it girl? Its a new life, a new day Never say die Take the night away Give me time to dream Buzzers buzz. Got Talent judges give thumbs down. Objects: Nonsense! Its a great song! It has all the best words in it! Gets booed off stage for being a spoilsport. Mutters, I know what went wrong. It was all the times I used the. Next time, Ill leave it out. Heads home and  sulks. Looks for more popular song words for music inspirations. Jackpot! Now I have: Baby Good Keep Around Again Eye Mind Fall World Time Hell We Like Breathe Ya You Thang Get Fire Rock Dont Woman (Oh! My girls all grown up! What a lot of letters she has now!) Music Dancing (Another big word!) Lonely Like Polka Serenade Boogie Oops! I slipped back to the 1940s with those last three. I thought they were rather strange. I mean, when last did you hear a song that goes: Yeah! Baby! Lets Polka that thang all night long! I dont somehow think its going to hit the charts. Favorite words in songs have changed through the decades as we saw with Polka once being a popular song staple. The reality is popular song words in the past ago arent the same as they are today. Lets take a quick spin through the decades: Since 2010 We Yeah Hell Die What a cheerful bunch we are. I even had to censor one word out. Traveling back a decade 2000s U Like Breathe It Ya Perhaps just a little more cheerful. And back again 1990s U You Up Get Thang I never realized thang was retro. Rewind 1980s Love Fire Dont Rock On Rock on that love and dont fire me? 1970s Woman Disco Rock Music Dancin Yay! Lets Disco, Woman! Rock on! 1960s Baby Twist Little Lonely Cute! Lets twist, my lonely baby! 1950s Christmas Penny Mambo Three Im not at all sure what to make of that! 1940s Polka Serenade Boogie Blue Dont be Blue! Lets Boogie that Polka! 1930s Moon In Swing Sing Lets sing that swing in the moon Now what? Woman? Baby? Girl? Lady? 1920s Blues Pal Sweetheart Rose Mammy What a breadth of interests: family, horticulture, romance and friendship, and all tied together with a little melancholy! I think weve taken the time machine far enough back to suit anyone, but for interests sake, the preceding two decades feature Josh as a top word. I am not sure who Josh is, but he was in a lot of songs. He may have been someones uncle, because uncle also hits top ratings. With my next song, perhaps I should try to span the decades. No! Dont run away! Really! Some people.