Pop will adore itself

Academic sorts have declared modern pop to be chock-a-block with narcissism. Gwilym Mumford checks the charts for proof"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism." The words of cigar and incest aficionado Sigmund Freud. Unfortunately, for anyone who still values a concept as hackneyed as "love" in the age of Bieber, a new study into pop lyrics has unearthed a pronounced shift away from caring and sharing for one another and towards a form o...

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