Emotion Classification in Song Lyrics Using K-Nearest Neighbor Method

Every human being is naturally experiences various emotions. Emotion is a person's feelings into something that affect person's behavior itself. Emotion is subjective and temporary that occurred or triggered by a stimulus such as experience from other people around him and the environment. One of the environment that can trigger someone's emotion is from the song being listened to. Songs are music that consists of a regular arrangement of tones and there are lyrics inside. Song lyrics are parts that can build emotions. Choosing the right words for lyrics are very important because it will create the right emotion. Then, choosing the right songs to listen is also important. k-NN algorithm is one of classification algorithm that will count nearest neighbor of k variable. The results in this study show average accuracy 75%.