The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Pop Music Scene - A Data Science Research Project
YOU HAVE NOW ENTERED THE DATA DIMENSION. WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR STAY. The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Pop Music Scene - A Data Science Research Project cross-posted from my main blog, Fire's Flaming Hot Takes Hi all, today I have an incredibly special article to share!! This one has been in the works since around the spring of 2022, and here it is!! A data science research project where I used sentiment analysis to analyze any trends between the COVID-19 pandemic and the overall mood of the hit music. But let me start with what I did to investigate this: I pulled the song lyrics for the year-end Hot 100 lists from 2019-2022 from Genius.com - 2020-22 because, obviously, these are peak pandemic years, 2019 because this was the last pre-COVID year and I figured we would need a baseline on how the mood of the pop music was then - and performed sentiment analysis on them. We already know that pop music can reflect world events, to quote YouTube music critic Ma...