Lyrics within a music app are the type of feature you might not use every time you play a new song, but if you listen long enough or laugh at the lyrics your friend just shouted (that were clearly incorrect), they can come in handy to prove your lyrical clout. Lyrics are available for many of the songs on both Spotify and YouTube Music, but it appears that YouTube Music is about to take theirs to the next level.
A few redditors noticed lyrics being followed in real-time as their songs played. Again, while YouTube Music has had lyrics for much longer than Spotify, tracking lyrics as they play would be novel.
The screenshot below shows how this experience will look. Lines should highlight as they are spoken as a song plays and you follow along at the lyrics tab. While not the most important feature, it is a convenience feature that allows you to follow along with a song on a deeper level than simply playing it and reading a non-interactive list of lyrics, as you can now. This user claims to be using YouTube Music app version 5.51.50.
Some have claimed that the new lyrics experience is available on iOS as well, with the same build. Because we all appear to be on 5.51.50, this must be a server-side control that Google and YouTube must whitelist.
