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Ignacio M. Sticco

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arXiv2026

Towards an LLM-based method for quantifying the sexual content in song lyrics

Reggaeton is one of the most widely consumed music genres in the world, and its lyrics are commonly regarded as highly sexualized. This claim rests mostly on qualitative studies and on small-scale quantitative ones. This paper has two goals. First, we present a reproducible method that uses a large language model to quantify thematic content in song lyrics along several independent dimensions. The method is not restricted to sexual content. Second, we apply it to a corpus of 1,259 songs by 12 reggaeton artists released between 2002 and 2025. The analysis covers four topics: a dataset characterization, a per-artist comparison, an analysis of how the dimensions change over time, and a comparison between our sexual-explicitness score and Spotify's own explicit flag. We release the data collection code, the scoring prompt, and the corpus, so that other researchers can replicate the approach or apply it to their own lyrics datasets.

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arXiv2021

Microscopic dynamics of escaping groups through an exit and a corridor

This research explores the dynamics of emergency evacuations in the presence of social groups. The investigation was carried out in the context of the basic Social Force Model (SFM). We included attractive feelings between people belonging to the same social group, as proposed in Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 27(6),1-16. We focused on the escaping dynamics through an emergency exit and through a corridor. We confirmed the results appearing in Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 27(6),1-16 for a desired velocity of 4 m/s, but further extended the analysis on the emergency exit to the range 1-8 m/s. We noticed that the presence of groups worsens the evacuation performance. However, very strong feelings can improve the escaping time with respect to moderate feelings. We call this phenomenon "Closer-Is-Faster", in analogy to the "Faster-Is-Slower" effect. The presence of social groups also affects the dynamic within a corridor by introducing an additional slow-down in the moving crowd.

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