• Dictionaries
  • Count how many words fall in each category
  • Lots of pressure on the dictionary!
• Other stuff?

• Dehghani and colleagues (2017)
• Representing words as vectors
• Can help account for words missing from dictionary w/ similar meaning

• Billboard charts since 1993
  • Pop, country, rap, rock
• Retrieved lyrics for around 70% overall
  • More like 90% in recent years
• About 15,000 songs w/ lyrics
• Focusing on each chart’s average
  • Interest in music in general, genres comparatively

I have…

• Raw word counts (dictionary method)
• More genres, times
  • If Billboard charted it, I can get it
• Audio features
  • Key, tempo, duration, many others
  • thanks to Spotify API