Mar
20
What's in the words? Comparing artists and lyrics with R.
It's been a while since I had the opportunity to post something on music. Let's get back to that.
I got my hands on some song lyrics by a range of artists. (I have an R script to download all lyrics for a given artist from a lyrics website. Since these lyrics are protected by copyright law, I cannot share the download script here, but I can show some of the analyses I made with the lyrics.)
My main question is: What can we learn about an artist, or several artists, when we have a corpus of lyrics. I gonna analyze lyrics by the following artists:
Beck Bob Dylan Britney Spears Leonard Cohen Lou Reed Metallica Michael Jackson Modest Mouse Nick Cave and TBS Nikka Costa Nine Inch Nails Nirvana PJ Harvey Prince Radiohead Rihanna The Cure The Doors The National Let's start with an easy one.
I got my hands on some song lyrics by a range of artists. (I have an R script to download all lyrics for a given artist from a lyrics website. Since these lyrics are protected by copyright law, I cannot share the download script here, but I can show some of the analyses I made with the lyrics.)
My main question is: What can we learn about an artist, or several artists, when we have a corpus of lyrics. I gonna analyze lyrics by the following artists:
Beck Bob Dylan Britney Spears Leonard Cohen Lou Reed Metallica Michael Jackson Modest Mouse Nick Cave and TBS Nikka Costa Nine Inch Nails Nirvana PJ Harvey Prince Radiohead Rihanna The Cure The Doors The National Let's start with an easy one.
