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Cognitive biases in popular songs

Forget that guff about Rage against the Machine vs. X Factor – truly, a herd of independent minds. What’s more worrying is the large number of basic irrationalities contained in popular songs.

I was at the gym the other day – this finely chiselled physique doesn’t come naturally – and Alexandra Burke came on the TV, singing “The bad boys are always catching my eye.”

Well of course they are. Bad boys hang around on street corners and in malls where you can see them. Good boys on the other hand are working or studying and so are in offices and libraries where they’ll not catch your eye.

This is a sampling bias. It’s an elementary cognitive error.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

via Stumbling and Mumbling: Cognitive biases in popular songs.

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link for the free download is here: http://lrlrl.coldplay.com/leftright.html

Thanks to whoever thought of this! Thank you coldplay!

As for his greatest claim to fame — the solid-body electric guitar — Paul takes it in stride.

“I just feel as though if I hadn’t done it, someone else would have,” he said. “It was meant to be. Why me, I’ll never know, but I’m very grateful it was me.”

via Story of his life: Time and again, American Music Masters honoree Les Paul saw a need and invented something to fill it – Music – Cleveland.com.

composed by George Harrison

performed by The Beatles

Something in the way She moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way She woos me

I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Somewhere in the smile she knows
That I don’t need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me

I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

You’re asking me will my love grow
I don’t know, I don’t know
You stick around and it may show
I don’t know, I don’t know

Something in the way she knows
All I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me

I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

McCarney and Starr have appeared together only a handful of times since the Beatles disbanded in 1970, the last time at the 2002 “A Concert for George,” a tribute to the late Beatles guitarist George Harrison.

via McCartney, Starr ‘come together’ for charity – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room by John Mayer

lyrics from here

It’s not a silly little moment
It’s not the storm before the calm
This is the deep and dyin breath of
This love we’ve been workin on

Can’t seem to hold you like I want to
So I can feel you in my arms
Nobody’s gonna come and save you
We pulled too many false alarms

We’re goin down
And you can see it too
We’re goin down
And you know that we’re doomed
My dear
We’re slow dancing in a burnin room

I was the one you always dreamed of
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it’s nothing to me
Baby, you’re the only light I ever saw

I’ll make the most of all the sadness
You’ll be a xxxxx because you can
You try to hit me just hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
Because you can’t understand

We’re goin down
And you can see it too
We’re goin down
And you know that we’re doomed
my dear
We’re slow dancing in a burnin room

Go cry about it why don’t you
Go cry about it why don’t you
Go cry about it why don’t you
My dear, we’re slow dancin’ in a burnin’ room,
Burninl room, burnin’ room
Don’t you think we oughta know by now
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow
Don’t you think we oughta know by now
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow
Don’t you think we oughta know by now
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow

lyrics copied from here,

The Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen

Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
If you’ve ever seen a one trick pony then you’ve seen me
Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making its way down the street?
If you’ve ever seen a one-legged dog then you’ve seen me

Then you’ve seen me, I come and stand at every door
Then you’ve seen me, I always leave with less than I had before
Then you’ve seen me, bet I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor
Tell me, friend, can you ask for anything more?
Tell me can you ask for anything more?

Have you ever seen a scarecrow filled with nothing but dust and wheat?
If you’ve ever seen that scarecrow then you’ve seen me
Have you ever seen a one-armed man punching at nothing but the breeze?
If you’ve ever seen a one-armed man then you’ve seen me

Then you’ve seen me, I come and stand at every door
Then you’ve seen me, I always leave with less than I had before
Then you’ve seen me, bet I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor
Tell me, friend, can you ask for anything more?
Tell me can you ask for anything more?

These things that have comforted me, I drive away
This place that is my home I cannot stay
My only faith’s in the broken bones and bruises I display

Have you ever seen a one-legged man trying to dance his way free?
If you’ve ever seen a one-legged man then you’ve seen me

really loved the film and the song! Cheers!

Jamie Cullum

Gran Torino lyrics

youtube video :

So tenderly

Your story is

Nothing more

Than what you see

Or

What you’ve done

Or will become

Standing strong

Do you belong

In your skin

Just wondering

Gentle now

The tender breeze

Blows

Whispers through

My Gran Torino

Whistling another

Tired song

Engine humms

And bitter dreams

Grow heart locked

In a Gran Torino

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

Realign all

The stars

Above my head

Warning signs

Travel far

I drink instead

On my own

Oh,how I’ve known

The battle scars

And worn out beds

Gentle now

A tender breeze

Blows

Whispers through

A Gran Torino

Whistling another

Tired song

Engines humm

And bitter dreams

Grow

Heart locked

In a Gran Torino

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

These streets

Are old

They shine

With the things

I’ve known

And breaks

Through

The trees

Their sparkling

Your world

Is nothing more

Than all

The tiny things

You’ve left

Behind

So tenderly

Your story is

Nothing more

Than what you see

Or

What you’ve done

Or will become

Standing strong

Do you belong

In your skin

Just wondering

Gentle now

A tender breeze

Blows

Whispers through

The Gran Torino

Whistling another

Tired song

Engines humm

And bitter dreams

Grow

A heart locked

In a Gran Torino

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

May I be

So bold and stay

I need someone

To hold

That shudders

My skin

Their sparkling

Your world

Is nothing more

Than all

The tiny things

You’ve left

Behind

So realign

All the stars

Above my head

Warning signs

Travel far

I drink instead

On my own

Oh

How i’ve known

The battle scars

And worn out beds

Gentle now

A tender breeze

Blows

Whispers through

The Gran Torino

Whistling another

Tired song

Engines humm

And better dreams

Grow

Heart locked

In a Gran Torino

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

It beats

A lonely rhythm

All night long

via Jamie Cullum – Gran Torino lyrics.

My current lss the Queen Latifah cover from

the Cool Sexy Jazz 2 release.

Suffice to say I’m relating too much to the lyrics. hehe.

I’m Not in Love

( 10 CC )

I’m not in love, so don’t forget it.

It’s just a silly phase I’m going through.

And just because I call you up,

Don’t get me wrong, don’t think you’ve got it made.

I’m not in love, no no, it’s because…

I like to see you, but then again,

That doesn’t mean you mean that much to me.

So if I call you, don’t make a fuss -

Don’t tell your friends about the two of us.

I’m not in love, no no, it’s because…

I keep your picture upon the wall.

It hides a nasty stain that’s lying there.

So don’t you ask me to give it back.

I know you know it doesn’t mean that much to me.

I’m not in love, no no, it’s because…

Ooh, you’ll wait a long time for me.

Ooh, you’ll wait a long time.

I’m not in love, I’m not in love…

via I’m Not In Love – 10CC.

I played guitar hero the first time last night, at a house/birthday party of a friend. What struck me was the intensity of the people playing guitar hero. Let’s just say that most things we have in modern society is distractions and we seem to be concentrating so much in these distractions that we seem to lose energy to do the hard stuff, or maybe we use these distractions to not face having to deal with the hard stuff, as for me, I’m not playing guitar hero any time soon, I’ve been slowly saving up for an electric organ and in 8 month’s I’d probably saved enough for both an instrument and the turntable i’ve been dying to own.  Hope I can create stuff!

Inspired by his preteen Super-Sexual Mario Brothers project, West makes a pop-Freudian self-analysis. “People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age,” he says. “Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic . . . “

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