Abstract
The impact of music on the many dimensions of human life can be partly attributed to its linguistic component – the lyrics. In hopes of helping songwriters reach their full potential, researchers have implemented advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to automatically generate song lyrics. These efforts, however, were met with challenges that accompany the distinctive qualities of song lyrics, such as word repetition, structural pattens, and line breaks; all of which are dependent on the music genre. Seeing as most previous research either focuses on a given approach or genre, or performs the task without consideration of lyric variation among genres, this study attempts to address the gap by exploring and comparing the capabilities of three promising methods, specifically Markov chains, long short-term memory (LSTM), and gated recurrent units (GRU), in algorithmically generating lyrics for six selected music genres, namely rock, pop, country, hip-hop, electronic dance music (EDM), and rhythm and blues (R&B). Our findings show that LSTM scored better in the average readability index in overall, however, GRU produced the overall highest Rhyme Density score.
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Tee, T.H., Bei Yeap, B.Q., Gan, K.H., Tan, T.P. (2022). Learning to Automatically Generating Genre-Specific Song Lyrics: A Comparative Study. In: Villazón-Terrazas, B., Ortiz-Rodriguez, F., Tiwari, S., Sicilia, MA., Martín-Moncunill, D. (eds) Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web . KGSWC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1686. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21422-6_5
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