Everyzine Everyzine Vol.1 - 2020

Now the big moment – I copied and pasted
Jon’s lyrics into the calculator and hit
CALCULATE. The result: In Jon’s 23518
lyrics there are 2849 unique words. This means
every 8.2 words is unique!
Step Three: the impossible task of forecasting
Jon’s unique word count once he
hits 35,000 lyrics
This is of course a matter of opinion. I hope
Everything Everything continues on the trajectory
of albums with a rich diversity of song
structures and subject matter. Sometimes an
EE song requires a lot of lyrical repetition:
for example, ‘A Fever Dream’ or ‘Can’t Do’.
Sometimes just 15 words in a song is enough:
‘A New Deep’. And as we all know Jon is capable
of bringing out the big guns and blasting
out 571 words including scimitar, coastguard,
murder-font, overlord, flintstone, cerebellum,
gorilla and hemisphere within a single song.
Has the EE album unique word count decreased
from album to album? You would
imagine that as time goes on, you’ll end up
using terms you’ve used before.
Man Alive – 735 unique words
(367.5 words per song)
Arc – 432 unique words (295.5
words per song)
Get to Heaven – 286 unique words
(319 words per song)
Fever Dream – 142 unique words
(300 words per song)
All 4 Albums - 1595 unique words
(An aside: this means that the lyrics on original
non-album tracks, bonus tracks/deluxe version
tracks make up 1254 of EE’s unique words)
So, there’s a decrease in the number of unique
words on each album. Interestingly the four
songs released from Re-animator already add
66 new unique words to Jon’s EE lyric catalogue.
Using that number as a guide there
could be over 180 new unique words on Re-animator.
There might well be more ‘Eeeeeeeeeee!’
choruses coming our way, but I’m guessing
that Jon will not abandon his other signature
move: the arcane or geeky reference. Jon
loves obscure things as well as complicated
concepts and he’s not afraid to include multiple
odd terms in a single EE song. And how many
bands reference fatbergs or NPCs or craven
baboons?
So, what’s my forecast for Jon’s next 11,482
lyrics, taking him to that golden 35,000 milestone?
He’ll confound us with another 1050
unique words. At least I believe it now.
That means I predict that in total Jon will sing/
speak/rap/chant/wail 3899 unique words by the
time he gets to 35,000 lyrics.
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