The lyrics foe all songs were individually analyzed using Diction 5.0,notinginthe quantitative reports which variables and concept as described above were out-of-the-normed ranges for Dictionary Variable, Master variables, and Calculated variables and ,specifically, these variables related to general semanticstenets. All song reports were compared and then analyzed for trends in out-of-range variable acossthe chosendecade and correlations between out-of-rangevariable.