Emotions in Eurovision Song Contest Lyrics

The Eurovision Song Contest, started in 1956, is the longest-running annual TV music competition. So far, more than 1,500 songs have been sung at the competition, the lyrics of which contain numerous emotions. Emotion mining, one of the areas of sentiment analysis, deals with the automatic detection of emotions in text. In this paper, we present the results of emotion detection in the lyrics of songs from this international music show. Emotion detection was performed by NRC emotion lexicon. We found that the lyrics are dominated by emotions of joy, trust, and sadness, while disgust is the least represented. It is particularly interesting that over the decades, there has been a decrease in positive emotions (joy and trust) in songs, while negative emotions (anger, disgust, fear and sadness) have increased.