April 21, 2017· 29 min

How to Use Pop Music to Forecast the Stock Market

Matt Lampert

Orality

Model

89%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,487 words)

M:28%

HostJoe Weisenthal(796 words)

M:29%

GuestMatt Lampert(2,638 words)

M:24%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic25%

very, definitely, basically

Engagement63%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, like, so

Repetition100%

market (54x), like (41x), mood (38x)

Parallelism100%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, I don't think I've ..., But that's a we that that that...

Sound Patterns66%

35 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases4%

i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging14%

may, could, probably

Passive Voice7%

be worried, are underrated, are underrated

Abstract Nouns24%

investment, community, business

Subordination6%

because, while, since

Sentence Length41%

Avg: 15.3 words/sentence

Word Complexity47%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style37%

337 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style84%

apply, actually, probably

Description

When most people analyze the stock market, they look at stuff like revenues, earnings, valuations, and economic conditions. But some people like to look at the Billboard music charts or what kinds of films are popular at any given moment. On this week's Odd Lots, we talk to Matt Lampert, the director of research at the Socionomics Institute, which attempts to analyze the market by looking at the nation's social mood. And there's no better way to examine society's mood than by looking at pop culture. Are horror movies in vogue? Are people listening to upbeat pop songs? Each of these things, according to Lampert, can offer a clue about the state of the nation and therefore which way the market will go next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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