On Instagram they continue to think of ways to change the content we consume on a daily basis. If the copy of the stories or histories to Snapchat was a before and after for the photography social network, now it is still looking for formulas to keep users. And it seems to get it. First with the music stories, which despite its delay in reaching all users seems to be a constant. And now it wants to evolve filling not only users with music, but also adding lyrics to their stories.
At least that's what emerges from the investigations of Jane Manchun Wong, who scrutinizes each version of Instagram to find news in which the company could be working. And among them is this new song lyrics sticker. Until now, it cannot be said that it is more than an experiment, without official confirmation that this tool will reach users soon or at some point. However, several tests and modifications have already been discovered in this function, which encourages us to think that Instagram is putting a lot of effort into it.
Instagram is working on Lyrics Stickers pic.twitter.com/DWF1xUZBPX
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 19, 2019
With these stickers, Instagram Stories would become a kind of trailer of those seen on Facebook and other social networks on which transcribes everything that is spoken.Of course, in this case around music. In this way the lyrics of the song playing in the background can be read in real time. Like some kind of karaoke. Something that focuses even more attention on the music and lyrics, and not so much on the photographed or videotaped content.
Instagram added an additional Lyrics Sticker style.
The sticker is now more synchronized with the lyrics.
previously: https://t.co/ACx4SqYPhl pic.twitter.com/GSFq8NcFnX
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 10, 2019
According to what can be seen in Manchun's investigations, the sticker would be applied on the storie to detect the song and display the lyrics in real time , to the rhythm of the music and verse after verse. A good way to follow the lyrics of the song. But here the thing does not stop. Apparently, Instagram will give the user the possibility to choose how these verses are displayed in the story.Thus, up to six different types of animation and typography have been discovered. All you have to do is place the story and click on the different icons to make the verses appear sentence by sentence, with a rotating animation, with different sizes, etc.
Instagram refined the Lyrics Sticker UI,
now with icons for each sticker style.
(just release it already <3)
previously: https://t.co/kvbP95pEZi pic.twitter.com/LDjI3WqQiC
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 12, 2019
And ready to publish and for followers to see, read and listen to the songs that we share. Now, at the moment the function is in tests without an official date for its arrival. In fact, based on what happened with musical stories, it is possible that this sticker will be quite late or that its arrival will be staggered.At the moment we only have the tests of this researcher to know how they look and how they work.
