How Korean lyrics
show they are more developed than Japanese Lyrics
I have chosen to look at how Korean lyrics are more developed
and giving a more edgy feel through their lexical choices compared to Japanese
lyrics. Therefore I have chosen to look
at three Korean bands that are currently active in South Korea. These bands
were selected as they are my three favourite bands. Even though this isn’t the
most reliable way of choosing them, I found that by selecting the bands in the
data this way to be fairer then by choosing them based on different genres they
come from or what gender as I would be knowingly adding more variables to my
investigation.
To collect the data I
have decided to use the translated English lyrics from the three bands. To make
the results more reliable I have taken these from the same site which would indicate
that the translations were made by the same people so each song was recorded in
a similar way. From each band I have
found an album that was released from the same year, which was 2012, and tried
to find albums that were the closest in release dates for the best comparison
between these lyrics. Once the albums
are selected I will use the lyrics from every song so there will be a large
data sample to evaluate, which will help to eliminate the possibility of anomalies.
I will also have one Japanese song translated into English
just to prove what stereotypical Japanese lyrics would compose of. I chose to
only use the most popular song from the biggest selling band of this time as
this would show what was popular at this time with the minimal amount of data.
This would only be used to highlight how the two different types of lyrics are
different and I have chosen only one set of lyrics as this isn’t the main part
of the investigation that I am looking at. By seeing that the audience change
can affect the lyrics, I can look deeper into the reasons why and how they
would be different.
The data I have collected doesn’t have any ethical issues as
they are there for the public to see and not designed to offend, they are used
for entertainment.
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