Table 2 Most representative tags and corresponding artists for each of the 19 clusters
From: Semantic structures of timbre emerging from social and acoustic descriptions of music
ID | Tags closest to cluster centroids | Top artists in the cluster |
|---|---|---|
1 | energetic, powerful, hot | Amy Adams, Fred Astaire, Kelly Clarkson |
2 | dreamy, chill out, sleep | Nick Drake, Radiohead, Massive Attack |
3 | sardonic, sarcastic, cynical | Alabama 3, Yann Tiersen, Tom Waits |
4 | awesome, amazing, great | Guns N' Roses, U2, Metallica |
5 | cello, piano, cello rock | Camille Saint-Saëns, Tarja Turunen, Franz Schubert |
6 | 00s, sexy, catchy | Fergie, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse |
7 | mellow, beautiful, sad | Katie Melua, Phil Collins, Coldplay |
8 | hard, angry, aggressive | System of a Down, Black Sabbath, Metallica |
9 | 60s, 70s, legendary | Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, The Four Tops |
10 | feelgood, summer, cheerful | Mika, Goo Goo Dolls, Shekinah Glory Ministry |
11 | wistful, intimate, reflective | Soulsavers, Feist, Leonard Cohen |
12 | high school, 90's, essential | Fool's Garden, The Cardigans, No Doubt |
13 | 50s, saxophone, trumpet | Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus |
14 | 1980s, eighties, voci maschili | Ray Parker Jr., Alphaville, Michael Jackson |
15 | affirming, lyricism, life song | Lisa Stansfield, KT Tunstall, Katie Melua |
16 | choral, a capella, medieval | Mediæval Bæbes, Alison Krauss, Blackmore's Night |
17 | voce femminile, donna, bella topolina | Avril Lavigne, The Cranberries, Diana Krall |
18 | tangy, coy, sleek | Kylie Minogue, Ace of Base, Solange |
19 | rousing, exuberant, passionate | James Brown, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Tchaikovsky |