This visualization explores a collection of 100 song lyrics for 95 different Categories include self references, social words, positive emotions, LYRICAL SIMILARITY artists, selected from Rolling Stone’s “Top 100 Artists of All Time.” negative emotions, cognitive words and big words (words greater than Song lyrics were run through Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count 6 letters long). These categories were reduced down to 2 values through WHICH MUSICAL ARTISTS HAVE (LIWC) text analysis software. LIWC returned values that represent the a process called Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The resulting SIMILARLYRICAL SONG LYRICS? EXPRESSIONfrequency of different categories of words that are used in the lyrics. values are what determine where to plot the artists in 2-D space. Comparing Similarity of Musical The Shirelles Artists Through Song Lyrics Etta James The Shirelles The Shirelles Tina Turner James Brown Jackie Wilson Etta James Janis JoplinAl Green Etta James

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