Word frequency analysis and Justin Bieber

Pre-teen girls like Justin Bieber. I get that. Some music executive saw an opportunity for a new franchise and leapt on it. What’s rather unfortunate is that his fans also extend to the listeners of commercial radio.

I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to standing pop music. But even I have my limits. I had to walk out of a store today because they were playing his song “Baby.” How bad is it? Well, let’s do a bit of word frequency analysis.

The lyrics of the song consist of 280 words. Out of those:

• 56 (20%) are the word “baby“
• 21 (7.5%) are the word “yeah“

One out of every five words is “baby”. From a 15 year old kid. Being aired all throughout your shopping experience. Fun.