The Genius app is a crowdsourced text annotation service has finally released an Android app which will be “your pocket guide to human culture,” the developers believe.
If texts and the meaning behind songs’ lyrics obsess you, this may be the app you were looking for. What is Shakespeare talking about when he writes “hang him in a bottle like a cat and shoot at him”? No idea.
The Master of Words
Well, Genius answers all your questions over a text with line-by-line annotations that explain in plain language “what you’re reading and why it’s important”. It’s like having a portable professor or music expert that you can consult live every time you are puzzled over a text.
The revived website and newly launched app basically aim at deciphering lyrics and giving a meaning to different genres of texts. Now, along with a redesigned website and iOS version, the Genius app for Android allows users to find annotated texts and browse what’s hot on the world’s biggest collection of crowdsourced musical knowledge directly from their smartphones.
The evolution of the Genius app
The platform is no longer merely an ad-hoc karaoke tool — it now hosts books and other texts helping users to dive deeper into the meaning of words.
Genius started as “Rap Genius” in 2009 but the community “had a bigger vision” and gradually expanded beyond rap lyrics. Today, the website and app host collected works of Shakespeare, speeches of Abraham Lincoln and thousands of songs – all carefully annotated.
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The founders believe that the Genius app contains “living documents” that transform as people from around the world add explanations and knowledge to the texts.
“Annotations are like miniature Wikipedia pages: constantly-improving distillations of the combined wisdom of potentially dozens of scholars,” the Genius team explained. Developers claim that it’s like a slightly more organized virtual version of the conversations and debates a group of friends has when it picks an artist’s work apart, debates its meaning, relates it to other writing, news, art, music and TV shows, and eventually “settles on the “best” interpretation”.
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