Abstract This paper studies the lyrics of reggaeton songs. Reggaeton is a popular genre nowadays, especially among young people. Its songs contain very rich and sometimes surprising vocabulary. That was reason for choosing this topic: to understand their lyrics. Thus purpose discover meaning words used in genre, clarify main vocabulary characteristics point out differences between Spanish spoke...

This research aimed at describing the metaphors used by Mohede in eight songs he wrote. As a qualitative research, this study rellied data upon lyrics of chosen songs. The analysis applies theory Lakoff and Johnson which divided into three types namely structural metaphor, orientational ontological metaphor. followed steps Bogdan Biklen as follows identification, categorization, explanation, in...

Music plays a crucial role in our lives, with growing consumption and engagement through streaming services social media platforms. However, caution is needed for children, who may be exposed to explicit content songs. Initiatives such as the Parental Advisory Label (PAL) similar labelling from providers aim protect children harmful content. so far, has been limited tagging song (if so), withou...

Each artist has their own taste for topics of lyrics such as “love” and “friendship.” Considering such artist’s taste brings new applications in music information retrieval: choosing an artist based on topics of lyrics and finding unfamiliar artists who have similar taste to a favorite artist. Although previous studies applied latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to lyrics to analyze topics, LDA w...

How useful are topic models based on song lyrics for applications in music information retrieval? Unsupervised topic models on text corpora are often difficult to interpret. Based on a large collection of lyrics, we investigate how well automatically generated topics are related to manual topic annotations. We propose to use the kurtosis metric to align unsupervised topics with a reference mode...

"Temporal Deictic Expressions in the Song Lyrics of Pale Waves’ "My Mind Makes Noises" Album" is title this article. This article focused on temporal deictic expressions song lyrics that have official music videos. had two aims: first, to identify album's lyrics; and second, explain analyze usages expressions. used a qualitative method content analysis technique data, with Huang's pragmatics th...