The B‐52s — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 64 songs across 7 albums by The B‐52s. They use 1,959 unique words out of 8,495 (lexical richness MATTR 0.57), with an average of 133 content words per song. Emotional tone: 78% of songs positive, 3% neutral, 19% negative.
Most used words by The B‐52s
- love (187)
- hot (128)
- ba (126)
- bad (90)
- baby (77)
- good (72)
- give (61)
- want (56)
- come (55)
- shake (54)
- let (54)
- take (53)
- tell (51)
- around (46)
- shack (46)
- time (44)
- rock (43)
- feel (43)
- party (42)
- stuff (41)
Signature phrases
- “good stuff” (38)
- “bad bad influence” (27)
- “baby love shack” (23)
- “strobe light” (20)
- “mo dean mo” (19)
- “dean mo dean” (19)
- “hot pants hot” (18)
- “love shack baby” (18)
- “shack baby love” (18)
- “call bad bad” (16)
Colors in the lyrics
- red (18)
- blue (9)
- green (6)
- white (3)
- orange (3)
- pink (2)
- tan (2)
- gray (2)
Albums analyzed
- The B‐52’s (1979)
- Wild Planet (1980)
- Whammy! (1983)
- Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986)
- Cosmic Thing (1989)
- Good Stuff (1992)
- Funplex (2008)