Trent Reznor’s lacerating diagnosis of his addiction to self-destruction – he has never confirmed whether or not the song refers to heroin use – would have an unlikely rebirth via Johnny Cash’s 2002 cover. But all of that ache, torrid lyricism and terrible beauty is already present and correct in Reznor’s original. “All Apologies” – a mea culpa howled from the precipice – was directed to his wife, Courtney Love, and their baby daughter, Frances Bean. No other composition more movingly articulates the despair that was set to devour him whole and the chest bursting love he felt for his family.

Every line had to be a lesson learned from a song on the radio when he was a kid. We had a couple lines that were killer but missed the mark in the context of the hook. And it went on to be the title track of the album, produced by Garth Brooks.

“Rap music has become more angry than the other genres,” Zangerle noted. “Rap music has become more angry than the other genres,” she added. The number of repeated lines rose most in rap over the decades, Zangerle said – adding that it obviously had the most lines to begin with. “What we have also been witnessing in the last 40 years is a drastic change in the music landscape – from how music is sold to how music is produced,” Zangerle said. Eva Zangerle, an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck’s department of computer science in Austria, said anger-related words may have become more common because music “reflects more general changes in society and culture”. “I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.”

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