Recent Pop Songs Reflect Our 'Me Me Me' Attitudes, Study Says

"Researchers used a text analysis program to examine song lyrics for the 10 most popular songs (according to the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart) for every year from 1980 to 2007. They found that the decades-old songs were more likely to use more first-person plural pronouns (we, our, us), while the newer lyrics contained more first-person singular pronouns (me, my, mine). But modern songs aren't just more "me"-focused -- they're also meaner, the study shows."