Beyonc??'s new single spells economic doom
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/12/beyonce-single-ladies-economic-downturnAccording to an NYU professor, some of history's steadiest pop songs were released before a market crash ??? and the 'low beat variance' of Single Ladies signals financial meltdownBeyonc??'s worldwide hit, Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It), is not just catchy ??? it may spell doom for international finance.According to findings by Phil Maymin, professor of finance and risk engineering at New York University, the more regular the beat on Billboard's top singles, the more volatile the American markets. After studying decades of Billboard's Hot 100 hits, Maymin found that songs with low "beat variance" had an inverse correlation with market turbulence. Which is to say, the more regular the song, the crazier the stock market.And Single Ladies is very regular."If it's a steady beat, the same beat, no matter if it's fast or slow, that's a low beat variance song," Maymin explained to PRI Radio. These are the songs that signal market volatility. "[But] if [the song] starts off slow and becomes fast and comes back down, that's a high beat variance." And it means the markets will be steady.Some of history's steadiest hits ??? such as A-Ha's Take On Me ??? were released at times of market crash. Whereas complex songs, "with all these beat changes and stuff", seem to catch on when the markets are sedate."The correlation is pretty strong," Maymin argued. Weirder still, the beat variance of songs seems to predict the markets - not the other way around. According to his research, the market becomes unstable only after the charts are full of steady tunes - almost as if certain hits can cause market shake-ups."The turbulence of the music predicts the steadiness of the market," Maymin explained. And Beyonc??'s chart dominance? Well, it may not mean good things for your pension.[/b]
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Yes, so ill. Need to hear something new from the gahd.
Economists be always looking for correlations that give them the edge over other "shitheel dork fukkkstick economists"TM
There was once a serious study of the relationship between the vogueish length of skirts and the economic cycle, but can't remember for the life of me if minis were signifying good or bad times to come.
Haha, Bugz in the Attic to the rescue! Superfriends and shit.
More minis?
Good times, most definitely good times
http://jazzzin.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaidi-tatham-in-search-of-hope.html
Folls be trippin' on the reviews above though - coming like it's better than sliced bread. I say 7/10. Worthy.
Isn't one of the characteristics of a pop song that it has a steady unvarying beat? Has this dude been paying attention to the radio for the last 9 years?
Nothing about this holds water at all, this is the type of shit that is making me mad.
I suppose Day In The Life was a pop song, but not a pop/hit single.
Exactly, and there is no high beat variance in that. We're talking more along the lines of Paul McCartney & Wings' "Band On The Run", Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park", and King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man including Mirrors", specifically the "Mirrors" section.
Chichi bobo luns and Chachi Arcola, shelemu ogalats!
"Hm. Complex songs, with all these beat changes and stuff, seem to catch on when the markets are sedate."
Whoa is that Tagalog?
And as for the meaning of 'single ladies' isn't the tale about running into her ex man of 3 years at the club and telling him to step off and if you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it?
best imitation video right here:
No sir, it is not.
He's gone for 'low beat variance' as his 'symptom' of impending doom... I don't know if he based his study on the English pop charts or American though: throughout the nineties the charts here were dominated by dance music* songs with zero[/b] beat variance, occasionally punctuated by some Britpop or the Spice Girls. At one point there was much gnashing of teeth and wailing from rockist commentators because the entire top twenty was 'dance music', but we didn't sink into the abyss.
Although it's got me thinking about another correlation.
Dance music was the first musical movement/style/fad/whatever to buck the 11 year trend, and the economic period of the same time (late eighties til now) was also the first instance of the world economy bucking the usual boom'n'bust cycle for as long as it did... and over here at least, this has all been to a 'low beat variance' soundtrack.
* 'dance music' as in house/techno four-to-the-floor unending beat repetition
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtec...scientists.html