6 Weird Pop Songs, Visualized
By colin_morris
Tags: Curiosity · Experiments · Music
Curious how pop hits look as song lyric visualizations? I built SongSim, an interactive web app that creates self-similarity matrices from lyrics. I visualize 6 weird pop songs, with Ke$ha's Tik Tok as a normal baseline. See Kylie’s la la blocks, Beach Boys' title-only chorus, Lorde's tight local repeats and Robyn's stripey single-line loop, with interactive matrices and clear notes on chorus stru
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For the inquisitive soul who finds poetry in patterns and sees music as more than just sound. This blog is a playground for those who revel in the quirks of pop, where the strange becomes beautiful through visual storytelling, inviting you to appreciate the bizarre intricacies of lyrics in unexpected ways.