time-sucking music data entertainment.
This is a massive list thatpairs nearly 1400 genres with the words
that are most distinctive to the song titles from each genre, from Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald
Guest Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on Spotify Insights
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‘Genres In Their Own Words’If you’re anything like us, it will make for surprisingly compelling reading — we say “surprising,” because nobody wrote these words; they simply emerged out of the data, as being associated with certain genres of music.Alternative Pop comes off as about sweet as one might expect, with titles including (ranked by frequency): “it’s down pretty song star like girl little around everything your don’t than never here baby time what this you’re.” Brutal Death Metal, on the (very) other hand, is all about “flesh dead blood collapse wrath death chaos suffering slaughter existence upon torture souls reign within divine human remains weak oblivion.”There’s all kinds of odd trivia to glean from this list, including regional insights. Chinese Indie Rock is about the city: “city live song love night don’t your.” Chinese Opera is more about the country: “aria spring story mother river song.” Chinese Traditional is even more about the country: “lowing plum spring autumn blossom silk lake mountains tune yang village variations moon palace ensemble lotus melody river flowers water.”Another one that caught our eye: Chill Lounge, which has a lot to do with the sun and the sea — quite relaxing indeed: “sunset beach sunrise remix original ocean love slow summer rain soul your instrumental come time days mind away part lost.”Meanwhile, the states of Texas and Oklahoma come in first and second as most distinctive toCowboy Western titles, as do honky-tonk, lonesome riders, trucks, and more: “texas oklahoma honky truck boogie cowboy tonk lonesome riders trail country i’ll recorded guitar rose don’t heart that again valley.”It’s a really fun list is fun to explore on your own, if you’re the type.
