Is there a website that categorizes songs by mood or subject?
April 8, 2008 7:54 PM Subscribe
Is there a website that categorizes songs by mood or subject? Searching iTunes for title words and hoping the title then corresponds to the lyrics/mood doesn't always give the best results.
For work, I often have to find weird or unusual songs that have to do with a certain topic (and the songs have to be PG or G.)
For example, in the past three weeks, I've needed songs dealing with Botox, brains, and basketball.
I searched on iTunes for Botox; nothing relevant pops up. We ended up using a song called "Tighten Up," but it was only because one of my coworkers thought of it. I had never heard of this song before he mentioned it, but thought "Hmm. There has to be a thesaurus or database of song topics, moods, etc."
Is there a database or search engine to facilitate this song-searching process? I need to be able to say "Find songs about brains" and have relevant ones about heads and skulls and brains and foreheads pop up. Song titles are a good place to start, but unless I know every single keyword dealing with a subject, all of them won't pop up.
(Caveat: I hate going to lyrics websites because they often contain popups and embedded things that destroy my work computer. Also, I find these songs under a pretty tight deadline, so a mixtapes site or using Ask Mefi would take too long.)
posted by melodykramer to media & arts (5 answers total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
Last.fm has Keyword tagging, but so far the results are not very promising. But for some things it might be better than those lyrics websites.
posted by kidbritish at 8:09 PM on April 8, 2008