Rolling Stones Review Sentiment Analysis

Author

Stevie Wolf

Taylor Swift Versus Lana Del Rey

Rolling Stones magazine is known for their reviews on musicians and their albums. These in depth reviews dive into the lyrics and meaning of the album as well as looking at tempo and utilization of instruments. IN addition to this, the reviewers also input their reactions, positive or negative.

I will be looking at the differences in sentiment analysis between two album reviews of Lana Del Rey: “Norman F*cking Rockwell”, “Lust for Life”, and “Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” and two of Taylor Swift’s: “The Tortured Poets Department” , “Midnights”, and “Folklore”.

Questions:

  1. Out of these two artists, who’s albums are viewed in a more positive light?
  2. What year did the artist have the most satisfied reviews?
  3. How does the emotional sentiment differ by artist?

Collecting Data

I scraped the Rolling Stones website for this analysis. The following are the attributes I scraped and inputted into a data frame:

  • Article Title (article_title)

  • Artist (artist)

  • Date

  • Review

  • Link (page_id)

Question 1: Out of these two artists, whose albums are viewed in a more positive light?

Analysis:

In this visualization, we can see that the reviews of Taylor’s albums have more positively scored words with “Love” being the most used for the positive words while “Lost” were the most used negatively scored words for Taylor. In terms of Lana, “Love” was also the most used positive word with “F*cking” being her most used negative word with “Die” being a close second.

Question 2: What year did the artist have the most satisfied reviews?

Analysis:

In this visualization, we can see that Lana Del Rey’s albums that were reviewed earlier on in her career were viewed more negatively than her most recent one, “Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” in 2023. However, Taylor’s albums that were reviewed before this year were scored more positively than her “The Tortured Poets Department” in 2024.

Question 3: How does the emotional sentiment differ by artist?

Analysis:

By looking at this visualization, we can see that Taylor is scored higher than Lana in every word. This includes “Positive” and “Negative”, however, Taylor is exponentially scored higher for positive. The two artists are very close together for “Sadness” and only have slight deviations in “Trust” and “Surprise”. Both of the artists have “Positive as their highest.