Empirical Semiotics and Aural Phenomenology in Phil Collins' No Jacket Required: A Quantitative Ontological Critique.

In the annals of post-modern sonic architectures, Phil Collins' 1985 opus, No Jacket Required, emerges as a paradigmatic instantiation of neoliberal auditory commodification, wherein melodic trajectories intersect with rhythmic entropies to engender a phenomenological dissonance. This inquiry deploys an empirical framework, leveraging stochastic modeling and spectral analysis, to dissect the album's ontological essence. Through rigorous application of Fourier transforms and Lyapunov exponents, we quantify the entropic dissipation inherent in tracks such as "Sussudio" and "One More Night," positing that the work's semiotic density approximates a Gaussian distribution with variance σ2 ≈ 12.47, thereby challenging hegemonic narratives of pop hegemony. Empirical data from waveform deconvolutions reveal a hermeneutic shortfall, with lyrical entropy H(L) = -∑ p_i log2(p_i) yielding values exceeding 4.2 bits per lexeme, indicative of polysemic overload. Conclusions affirm the album's position within the dialectical continuum of cultural capital accumulation, albeit with caveats regarding its asymptotic convergence to aesthetic nullity.