I was in the library today, reading up something. I sit in the room with hundreds of the most popular journals, and one of them caught my attention. It had the image of a guy in a tux with a standard electric guitar, called “Popular Music”.
When I opened up a random page, one research paper was titled “‘Amerrrika ist wunderrrbarrr’: promotion of Germany through Radio Goethe’s cultural export of German popular music to North America” (link).
I knew the words “Amerika is wunderbar” pretty well. It was straight out of Rammstein’s lyrics of “Amerika”. They titled their research paper based on lyrics from a fucking Rammstein song!!! I love these guys!
Reading through, I found that there were papers on everything from a 20 or so paged article, on Korn lyrics (seriously, korn?), more specifically, a very detailed analysis of “Hey Daddy”
One of the best papers I read in there was a very detailed analysis of rhythm patterns of Led Zepplin. You can even download the pdf here
(Update): Apparently my university shells out hundreds of thousands of bucks on such research resources online, that I vow to use more often. Turns out you can only download the article from my network proxy, but your university can also have a subscription, so you can give it a shot 
And yes, I played around with google scholarly search when I got back. Searches like this one yeild good results. Some papers have a lot of citations.
God bless heavy metal
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