26 July, 2015

What's the Size of Your Vocabulary Got to Do with It ?

Via a piece in the Telegraph, which they headlined 'Kanye and Eminem have wider vocabularies than Bob Dylan'*, this interactive study on musixmatch is, if nothing else, a nice way to waste a little time, even if it largely underscores the obvious, such as that certain genres (i.e. hip-hop and rap) are far more lyrically intensive than others (such as mass-market pop).

Just a screenshot, obvs.  Click thru for the interactive stuff & analysis.

* Though 'Em had a considerably higher word-count than Kanye.

No comments:

Post a Comment