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A 100-song subset of the metal lyrics corpus, containing English-language metal songs with prepped lyrics and word-position annotations. This small subset keeps illustration computationally tractable.

Usage

data(corpus_metal_lyrics_100)

Format

A data frame with 100 rows and 15 variables.

Details

  • song_number. Numeric song identifier

  • song_title. Song title

  • song_lyrics_url. URL to the lyrics source (Genius)

  • artist. Artist name

  • album. Album name

  • lyrics. Raw lyrics text (including section tags like [Verse], [Chorus])

  • year. Release year

  • score. Genius score

  • subgenre. Detailed subgenre labels

  • score_number. Number of raters

  • genre. Broad genre category (e.g., Alt Metal, Death Metal)

  • language. Detected language code

  • lyrics_prepped. Prepped lyrics: transliterated, lowercased, punctuation and numbers removed, contractions expanded, section tags removed

  • title_prepped. Prepped song title: transliterated and lowercased

  • word_position. Word-position indexed lyrics (sequential position numbers resetting at sentence boundaries)