Who are songs written about? Answer: Jesus, John, Joe, Dan, Johnny, Billy and only then Mary

[jofish22]

Inspired by some graphs dr_tectonic produced which showed graphical representations of individual songs, I got distracted this morning and started thinking about who songs are written about.

As it happens, I have a (gendered) list of names on my computer from previous research, and I also have a dump of OLGA (the OnLine Guitar Archive, now defunct due to

Comments

[vyrin]

This is so surreal.

Jess and I were discussing this very question just two days ago and we came to the erroneous conclusion that female names must appear more often in songs. Thank goodness our extreme wrongness permeated the ether and telephatically forced you to do some *actual* research. THANKS!

[gustavolacerda]

it would be cool if Lala were among the top names.