Are you smarter than a third grader?

The song lyrics of this generation are, let’s just say, elementary level.  A recent study revealed that ten years ago the most popular songs read between a third and fourth grade level and after five years it's only gotten worse.

Recently, the most popular songs topping the charts are determined to have a reading level equivalent at a second or third grade level.

Andrew Powell-Morse of SeatSmart studied the “Lyric Intelligence” of over 200 Billboard songs in the Pop, Country, Hip-hop, and Rock genres. Coming out at the top of the list was Country with the highest lyrical ingenuity and Hip Hop/RB being at the bottom.

Tell us are you surprised by the results?

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Contributions made by Victoria Meneses

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