I listened to Taylor Swift's new album and couldn't help but notice how excited she seems about drinking alcohol in it. I decided to examine her lyrics and visualize the references to alcohol in each album.
I used R to get the data and ggplot2 to make the visualization, to read more about the analysis and for other visualizations go here.
If this sort of thing interests you, I also tweet a lot of the visualizations I make.
EDIT: several people asked about the distribution of references within the album (i.e. were they all in one song?)
I thought this was a good question so I looked at it real quick, here's the resulting chart (without track titles, sorry): https://imgur.com/gallery/yiqPO
8 songs mentioning alcohol on the new album. Cheers!
What's the distribution between songs? There's a huge difference between an album with one song that mentions alcohol a lot (in a repeated chorus for example) and one where every song mentions it.
![image showing Taylor Swift's Newfound Infatuation with Alcohol [OC]](55338a11-1c8a-5f72-9ff3-b8f32aff61e9.jpg)
waitingforgoodoh on April 11st, 2018 at 15:38 UTC »
I listened to Taylor Swift's new album and couldn't help but notice how excited she seems about drinking alcohol in it. I decided to examine her lyrics and visualize the references to alcohol in each album.
I used R to get the data and ggplot2 to make the visualization, to read more about the analysis and for other visualizations go here.
If this sort of thing interests you, I also tweet a lot of the visualizations I make.
EDIT: several people asked about the distribution of references within the album (i.e. were they all in one song?)
I thought this was a good question so I looked at it real quick, here's the resulting chart (without track titles, sorry): https://imgur.com/gallery/yiqPO
8 songs mentioning alcohol on the new album. Cheers!
Thats_What-She_Said- on April 11st, 2018 at 16:03 UTC »
This is interesting.
Clearly, alcohol is in her mind a lot. The target isn’t teen girls anymore, obviously. I guess she’s aging and so is her target.
NuclearPissOn on April 11st, 2018 at 16:19 UTC »
What's the distribution between songs? There's a huge difference between an album with one song that mentions alcohol a lot (in a repeated chorus for example) and one where every song mentions it.