The “Ideal” Bowie lyric.
Pluto, David Bowie, and the Flu [Seed Magazine]:
The planet’s first Martian rock god, David Bowie, got a bit of unsolicited songwriting help from a linguistic analysis program this week. University of Hertfordshire professor of health psychology Nick Troop applied the software to the singer’s songs, looking for patterns in his subject matter and position on the pop charts. The program churned out the lyrics for a new composition, which Troop turned into a song titled “Team, Meet Girls; Girls, Meet Team”.
The song draws from the vocabulary of Bowie’s more positive songs, which Troop found did better than his ones about death and the apocalypse. Troop calls it the “ideal David Bowie song for health and success,” meaning that, in a purely statistical sense, it would give the legendary musician the best shot at another hit, as well as the most mental well-being to play.
