--- title: The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a copy; the app pays a tiny amount for each play --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / The songs on everyone's phone: streami… # The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms Lesson 5 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/0/) — Streaming means playing music over the internet without owning a copy; the app pays a tiny amount for each play, shared between the record label, the songwriters and the artist, so one play earns the singer a fraction of a penny, not a pound. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/1/) — The app's "made for you" playlist is not mind reading: an algorithm, a set of rules a computer follows, looks at what you play, skip and like and compares it with millions of other listeners. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/2/) — Picture a chorus you have hummed for three days: that is an earworm, and almost everyone gets them; it is harmless and fades. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/3/) — Nothing is truly free: free apps are paid for by adverts, pirate sites pay musicians nothing and can hide viruses, and blasting headphones can damage your hearing for good. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/4/) — Taste is personal: Gen Z might call a song "bussin'" (really good) or say it "ate and left no crumbs" (did it perfectly), a sister may call it "mid" (average), and a Ukrainian dad, "tato", may say "back in my day" about his old rock band; nobody is wrong about liking things. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/5/) — A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it involuntary musical imagery, and most people get them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/6/) — One study reported that chewing gum may help a little with an earworm, and listening to the whole song to the end helps some people. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/7/) — Streaming services such as Spotify are reported to pay roughly a fraction of a penny per play, split between the label, the songwriters and the artist; going to shows or buying music straight from the artist is reported to help them far more. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/8/) — A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/9/) — Music apps use recommendation algorithms built from your own listening history and other people's. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/10/) — Free music apps earn money from adverts; a paid subscription removes them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/11/) — Downloading songs from sites without permission breaks copyright law in most countries, pays the musicians nothing, and the sites can hide viruses and scams. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/12/) — Very loud music in headphones can damage hearing for good; a common tip is to keep the volume at about 60 percent and take breaks. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/13/) — An "E" next to a song means explicit, usually swearing or adult themes; many songs have a clean version. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/14/) — Okean Elzy is a Ukrainian rock band formed in 1994 and popular for decades. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/15/) — Many pop songs share the same four chords in the same order; songs differ in melody, words and sound, and using the same chords is allowed. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/16/) — Short video apps often use one catchy clip of a song; the full song usually has verses, a chorus and other parts. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/17/) — Liking or not liking a song is an opinion, not a fact. - ← previous: [Starting a band](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/) - next →: [Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)