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Old 06-21-2025, 02:15 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Track Words Popularity in Song Lyrics Over the Years

Hey everyone!

I recently built a tool that analyzes song lyrics and tracks how the popularity of specific words changes over time. The tool scans a huge collection of lyrics from different years. You can use it to spot trends, discover when certain words became mainstream, or just explore how language in music evolves.

Example:
“Boogie” in Song Lyrics. From dance floors to disco balls, “boogie” ruled the airwaves between 1974-1982. Why? Disco fever was everywhere - Saturday night meant glitter and getting down. “Boogie” was the soundtrack of a generation.

Let me know what you think! And if there’s a word you’re curious about, drop it in the replies – I might chart it next.

Here's a graph showing its rise and fall:
[DRIVE]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mhszd29OyyIuZ82s1URhPNp5XZIdS6f9/view?usp=sharing[/DRIVE]

And here’s a short video with actual songs that include “boogie” over the years:
[DRIVE]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=is_a18SXokk[/DRIVE]

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Old 07-07-2025, 11:22 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Hey everyone!

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Here's a graph showing its rise and fall:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mhs...ew?usp=sharing

And here’s a short video with actual songs that include “boogie” over the years:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=is_a18SXokk





wp:Boogie

The origin of the term boogie-woogie is unknown, according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word is a redoubling of boogie, which was used for rent parties as early as 1913.[4] The term may be derived from Black West African English, from the Sierra Leone term "bogi", which means "to dance"; as well, it may be akin to the phrase "hausa buga", which means "to beat drums".[3][4] In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the term "could mean anything from a racy style of dance to a raucous party or to a sexually transmitted disease."[5][4] In Peter Silvester's book on boogie woogie, Left Hand Like God – the Story of Boogie Woogie he states that, in 1929, "boogie-woogie is used to mean either dancing or music in the city of Detroit".[6]


wp:Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, but already developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.[1]


wp:Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

1929 HITS ARCHIVE: Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith





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