http://musicmachinery.com/2012/10/14/top-50-most-political-artists/ a blog about music technology by Paul Lamere Thu, 09 May 2013 02:20:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://musicmachinery.com/2012/10/14/top-50-most-political-artists/#comment-33402 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:31:55 +0000 http://musicmachinery.com/?p=4257#comment-33402 Hi Paul! An inspiring blog entry, as usual. But I think this example is a “cartoonization” of what politics is about. Saying something about an elections process is, many times, not being political or showing any political attitude. It’s just gossiping or an expression of preference. Political attitude has to be determined by lyrics and behavior. I think you could do some text mining on their lyrics and then telling apart those artists where the elections-related position are a natural consequence of the attitude detected in the lyrics (can you detect left-ish versus versus right-ish versus ultraconservative lyrics? This would be, for me, one of the real challenges on this topic)from those that do not show any connection between them (and then are just “victims of fashion” or saying what the fans are expecting to hear).

]]>