-
-
Placed 2nd at HackOR 2021
-
Flask web app with dynamically generated lyrics from Evanescence's top 3 songs
-
-
-
-
-
-
Inspiration
I was having an existential crisis. To be (humorous), or not to be, that is the question.
What it does
I built a Flask Application that generates rap-like lyrics that draw inspiration from Jean Grey and a song artist of our choosing by scraping their top songs on Genius.com and feeding it into a Markov Model.
How I built it
I call Genius.com’s APIs and scrape lyric text from an artist’s top 3 songs with BeautifulSoup. Afterwards, I built a Markov Chain class in python, populated the chain, and generated lyrics dynamically once artist data is input. I used Flask to tie everything together in a web app.
Challenges I ran into
Styling in flask is a learning curve. I attempted to implement a slider so that users can select a character to meld lyrics with, but I couldn't get it to present itself in the way I wanted it to, so I scaled down the project scope and vision for the front end.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Making a strong effort to balance being serious about learning while having a sense of humor — this is my first attempt at being funny, seriously.
What I learned
Everyone has a humorous side to them. Whether or not they show it is another story. Existential crisis averted—
What's next for What Would Jean Grey Rap?
Adding auto-generated melody so that we can take this project to the next level - What Would Jean Grey Sing?
A Word of Thanks
While I was aiming to compete in the Most Humorous prize with this hack, I am thankful to have placed 2nd and be selected as a finalist. I'm earnest about learning something new and expanding my skillset at hackathons, even when my goal is to try being funny.
