October 13, 2008 10:29

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Pandora is a streaming music service that recommends music based on data identified by the Music Genome Project. Music in the genome project is tagged with a bunch of attributes. Usually, they have a lot to do with the style of music, tonality, time signature, and so on. Evidently, they occasionally branch out to include things like “great lyrics,” as seen above. I’m curious as to how, precisely, “great lyrics” are defined in the Genome (particularly since the majority of the other tags are very objective).


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October 15, 2008 11:16

My guess is that by “great lyrics” they actually mean “lyrics that the majority of people probably recognize.”

October 19, 2008 16:00

heh. i had no idea they were doing that. i’m rather obsessed with the idea of quantifying language so this is particularly interesting to me. thanks for the heads-up. if you figure it out, lemme know.

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