Lyrics (in singular form lyric) are a set of words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of expression. The lyricist of traditional musical forms such as Opera is known as a librettist.
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Spotify finally lets you search songs by lyrics — it's all I've ever wanted
I often get annoyed when a song is stuck in my head and I can't find it because I only know a few words of its lyrics. I ...
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Genius loses lyric-scraping lawsuit against Google, despite watermark trick catching the Big G 'red-handed'
Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site, using Morse code to catch the ...
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Streaming service Deezer built an AI to catch the explicit lyrics human censors miss
Streaming service Deezer has developed an AI technique that automatically detects explicit lyrics -- just by analyzing ...
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This AI creates entire songs complete with music, lyrics, and vocals
OpenAI today introduced 'Jukebox,' an open-source AI system for generating novel music complete with lyrics and vocals. Simply ...
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This AI wrote such emo lyrics that humans thought it was My Chemical Romance
AI lyrics created by a text-generating machine called GPT-2 are so emo that people think they were written by My Chemical ...
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Watch 50+ live performances from Montreux Jazz Festival for free
The good people behind the Montreux Jazz Festival have made 50+ live recordings from the event freely available (until April ...
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Spotify is finally showing lyrics synced with music so you can sing along
Spotify is finally giving you the tools to sing along without embarrassing yourself — or mumbling while you pretend you ...
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These songs inspired by Trump's handwritten quid pro quo defense are peak Twitter
The Twitter-verse is alive with the sound of music that was inspired by the most unusual of lyricists: US President Donald ...
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What's behind the curious serenading of cybercriminals in Nigerian hip-hop?
Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the ...
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'You Can't Take My Door' is both country music and AI's greatest achievement
We know there's no justice in the world because the Country Music Awards, held earlier this month, didn't issue the evening's ...
