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I was able to create a web-scraping bot to find the lyrics of 14,504 country songs released from 2010-2020. Because I scraped the lyrics in late September, any music released around or after that date is not likely to have made it into the dataset.
- Stereotypicalness
- Diversity
- Uniqueness
- Women in Country
- Summary
The stereotype rating associated with a song is an attempt to quantify the stereotypicalness of its lyrics. Simply put, it is the percentage of words in the song that are deemed stereotypical.The stereotype rating is separated into six distinct sub-categories: clothing, body, alcohol, trucks, god, and lifestyle. To determine which words were stereo...
The diversity of a song is the number of unique words divided by the total number of words in the song. Consider the line from “The Git Up” by Blanco Brown: “To the left, to the left now (to the left, to the left).” The line has 13 total words but only four distinct words (to, the, left, now). Therefore, this line has a diversity of around 0.31. Th...
The uniqueness of a song is determined by the commonness of the words used in the song’s lyrics. Similar to diversity, the highest possible uniqueness is 1, while the lowest theoretical uniqueness is 0. However, unlike diversity, this compares the words used in a song’s lyrics to all other words in the dataset. The more frequently a word is used, t...
It is well-known that there are woefully few women in country music, and the data I have collected bolsters that argument. In this dataset, 27% of all artists are female, and only 16% of the top 100 most popular artists are female. (For this dataset, I decided to classify any group with a female lead singer as female.) But how do the women stack up...
The data shows that you cannot extrapolate the characteristics of mainstream country music to the entire country music genre. They are overly stereotypical and lacking in uniqueness, and especially diversity. At the end of the day, there are only so many different ways to cleverly sing about beer and trucks. To the casual and non-listeners of count...
- David Klingler
14,504 Songs. 836 Artists. 29 Genres. Here is how to use this website to answer questions like: What are the ten most used words in all of Country Music? Which artist has the most stereotypical songs? How popular is your favorite musician? Inspiration for this project.
Feb 22, 2016 · Yep, 72% of the Top 25 country songs involve people touching people. That means 18 songs referenced at least one body part, if not a person’s entire body. ( pretty blue eyes, hands, knees,...
- Joe Coffey
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Sep 21, 2020 · First off, the most common words aren’t that exciting: I, You, The, And, That, and A/An each appear in over 80% of all country songs. So let’s take those basic words out of the equation. After doing that, THESE are modern country music’s most common lyrics: 1. Yeah 2. Girl 3. Baby 4. Love 5. Little. Surprised? I was and I wasn’t.
Mar 3, 2023 · The most frequently mentioned words, “she” and “love,” are reflective of the huge percentage of Country songs centered around personal relationships, and the other top lyrics are consistent...
Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (i.e., "honky-tonk music") with simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies generally accompanied by instruments such as banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar (including acoustic, electric, steel, and resonator guitars).
