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!
Interesting to note that the two alcohol references from "Speak Now" are both from the same song (Mean) and referring to someone else, with the alcohol being references in a neutral-to-negative light by association:
And I can see you years from now in a bar / Talking over a football game / With that same big loud opinion / But nobody's listening, washed up and ranting / About the same old bitter things / Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing / But all you are is mean
![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.
natasharost0va on April 11st, 2018 at 17:47 UTC »
Interesting to note that the two alcohol references from "Speak Now" are both from the same song (Mean) and referring to someone else, with the alcohol being references in a neutral-to-negative light by association: