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New research from Michigan State University shows that popular music has become progressively less explicit about emotion and relationships, a trend observable both across generations of artists and within individual artists’ careers. The analysis, which examined more than 38,000 songs, represents the largest study of its kind to date. Findings were published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.

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