Parents who say their children's music is dumb might have a point. A new study finds that the average hit song has lyrics at a third grader's reading level.


The research took lyrics from 225 songs that topped US charts since 2005 and used standard tests that determine the reading difficulty.


The study Vans Old Skool Pas Cher , completed for ticket seller SeatSmart, found that the average reading level for a song was third grade and that it has gone down over the decade.


Country music was the most advanced, with an average of 3.3, with R&B and hip-hop last at 2.6.


Country fared higher in part because it has fewer interjections such as "yeah" and "oh" in quick succession, wrote the report's author, Andrew Powell-Morse.


He acknowledged that the methodology only made findings based on reading complexity - not on metaphors Balenciaga Speed Trainer Knit High Rouge Blanche Pas Cher , insightful observations or emotions expressed in the songs.


Case in point - the song that scored as the smartest, with a reading level of 5.8, was country singer Blake Shelton's "All About Tonight."


The 2010 hit is hardly a philosophical treatise. An ode to hard partying, the opening lyrics include: "I got some feel-good pills and a red Gatorade by my bed Ready to go."


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The research used common measurements including the Flesch-Kincaid readability test, which considers sentence and word length as key factors.


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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at the Sanya Forum held in Sanya, Hainan Province on December 14, 2013. Photo: CFP

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And China has become one of their major destinations.


In December, former British prime minister Tony Blair traveled across China giving speeches and meeting officials and business tycoons.


As part of this tour, he appeared in Beijing along with Andrew Liveris, chairman, president and CEO of the US Dow Chemical Company, and visited Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang Balenciaga Speed Trainer Sock Race Runners Noir Pas Cher , China Petroleum and Chemical Corp chairman Fu Chengyu and China National Petroleum Corporation chairman Zhou Jiping, and discussed cooperation on clean energy.


It's unclear whether the Dow visit was entirely a coincidence. A 2012 report by the Financial Times alleged that Dow had paid Blair, or Tony Blair Associates (TBA), his private consulting company, for consultancy work.


These were just some of his appearances in China after he left Downing Street in June 2007. And he is not the only official to be involved in paid lectures and activities after their government life.


On November 18, former US president Bill Clinton made a keynote speech at the Caijing Annual Conference 2014 in Beijing Balenciaga Speed Trainer Knit High Noir Blanche Pas Cher , calling for more charity engagement of non-governmental organizations and for inequality to be reduced.


A day before on November 17, he appeared at an enterprise leaders summit in Guangzhou. A staff member from the public relations department of Caijing magazine said they paid Clinton for his presence but declined to reveal how much. An ifeng report said payments for Clinton's two speeches totaled at least $1 million.


Since leaving the White House in 2001, Clinton has made more than 500 speeches across the world and raked in as much as $106 million in speaking fees, said a May CNN report.


Clinton was reportedly paid $750,000 by the telecom giant Ericsson to address its employees in Hong Kong in November 2011. In the same month, he earned $550 Balenciaga Triple S Basse Top Grise Rouge Pas Cher ,000 from a speech given to Huatuo CEO Forum, a business conference in Shanghai.


Yu Mingyang, a professor of brand marketing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said opening up and globalization has led to some Chinese enterprises favoring foreign speakers, especially retired leaders.


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However, these speeches are not always warmly welcomed.


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