xkcd #2870: Love Songs

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• Lamedonyx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every Step You Take is so far on the middle top that it doesn’t show on the chart.

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• aaaa@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I Will Always Love You” is further left than I would have expected it to be

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  • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bittersweet memories, and not being what you need right now clouds the message compared to other songs on here.

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  • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed, it should be at least “yes” for both “do I like you” and “do you like me” but “no!!” for “do I like me”

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• frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Creep by Radiohead and Creep by TLC both kind of work here. Huh.

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  • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Creep by Stone Temple Pilots.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Think you’re kind of neat, then she tells me I’m a creep.

      Yeah, I think all three could fit there. Or close enough, anyway.

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• thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fairytale of New York starts top right and ends bottom left

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d like to see a sequel to this comic that actually does plot the trajectories of songs that have story development:

    • The Pina Colada Song
    • Fairytale of New York
    • Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
    • Paradise by the Dashboard Light

    etc.

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• randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  explainxkcd.com/2870

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t Call me Maybe the one with the twist at the end of the music video where the guy turns out to be gay?

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah seriously why is it in the unclear/neutral category for “you like me” instead of “No!”

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    • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because that twist is in the video, not the song.

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  • maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the music video not the song itself I think.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whose POV does this describe for Somebody I Used To Know?

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The independent variable (horizontal axis) represents the singer’s sentiment, so the chart is from the singer’s POV.

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are two singers with opposing POVs

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  • astrsk@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That song is -1,-1 on this plot (assuming Teenage Dream is 1,1 and You Oughta Know is 0,0)

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    • rozPierog@lemdro.id ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it is represented on this graph

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What does it say about a person who can hum or pick out almost any of these songs but never could have plotted a single one?

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• match@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wanna see where Stan is on this graph

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would have placed “That don’t impress me much” further left, actually.

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• sagrotan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He forgot far down left “Warriors of the World” from Manowar

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• nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I kinda love this. I think this could become an organizational system for all relationship songs, sort of like the Dewey decimal system.

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