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In taylor: Lyrics and Song Data for Taylor Swift's Discography

taylor

The goal of taylor is to provide easy access to a curated data set of Taylor Swift songs, including lyrics and audio characteristics. Data comes Genius and the Spotify API.

You can install the released version of taylor from CRAN with:

install.packages("taylor")

To install the development version from GitHub use:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("wjakethompson/taylor")

There are three main data sets. The first is taylor_album_songs, which includes lyrics and audio features from the Spotify API for all songs on Taylor’s official studio albums. Notably this excludes singles released separately from an album (e.g., Only the Young, Christmas Tree Farm, etc.), and non-Taylor-owned albums that have a Taylor-owned alternative (e.g., Fearless is excluded in favor of Fearless (Taylor’s Version)). We support artists owning their work.

taylor_album_songs
#> # A tibble: 240 × 29
#>    album_name   ep    album_release track_number track_name     artist featuring
#>    <chr>        <lgl> <date>               <int> <chr>          <chr>  <chr>    
#>  1 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               1 Tim McGraw     Taylo… <NA>     
#>  2 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               2 Picture To Bu… Taylo… <NA>     
#>  3 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               3 Teardrops On … Taylo… <NA>     
#>  4 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               4 A Place In Th… Taylo… <NA>     
#>  5 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               5 Cold As You    Taylo… <NA>     
#>  6 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               6 The Outside    Taylo… <NA>     
#>  7 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               7 Tied Together… Taylo… <NA>     
#>  8 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               8 Stay Beautiful Taylo… <NA>     
#>  9 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               9 Should've Sai… Taylo… <NA>     
#> 10 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24              10 Mary's Song (… Taylo… <NA>     
#> # ℹ 230 more rows
#> # ℹ 22 more variables: bonus_track <lgl>, promotional_release <date>,
#> #   single_release <date>, track_release <date>, danceability <dbl>,
#> #   energy <dbl>, key <int>, loudness <dbl>, mode <int>, speechiness <dbl>,
#> #   acousticness <dbl>, instrumentalness <dbl>, liveness <dbl>, valence <dbl>,
#> #   tempo <dbl>, time_signature <int>, duration_ms <int>, explicit <lgl>,
#> #   key_name <chr>, mode_name <chr>, key_mode <chr>, lyrics <list>

You can access Taylor’s entire discography with taylor_all_songs. This includes all of the songs in taylor_album_songs plus EPs, individual singles, and the original versions of albums that have been re-released as Taylor’s Version.

taylor_all_songs
#> # A tibble: 356 × 29
#>    album_name   ep    album_release track_number track_name     artist featuring
#>    <chr>        <lgl> <date>               <int> <chr>          <chr>  <chr>    
#>  1 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               1 Tim McGraw     Taylo… <NA>     
#>  2 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               2 Picture To Bu… Taylo… <NA>     
#>  3 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               3 Teardrops On … Taylo… <NA>     
#>  4 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               4 A Place In Th… Taylo… <NA>     
#>  5 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               5 Cold As You    Taylo… <NA>     
#>  6 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               6 The Outside    Taylo… <NA>     
#>  7 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               7 Tied Together… Taylo… <NA>     
#>  8 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               8 Stay Beautiful Taylo… <NA>     
#>  9 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24               9 Should've Sai… Taylo… <NA>     
#> 10 Taylor Swift FALSE 2006-10-24              10 Mary's Song (… Taylo… <NA>     
#> # ℹ 346 more rows
#> # ℹ 22 more variables: bonus_track <lgl>, promotional_release <date>,
#> #   single_release <date>, track_release <date>, danceability <dbl>,
#> #   energy <dbl>, key <int>, loudness <dbl>, mode <int>, speechiness <dbl>,
#> #   acousticness <dbl>, instrumentalness <dbl>, liveness <dbl>, valence <dbl>,
#> #   tempo <dbl>, time_signature <int>, duration_ms <int>, explicit <lgl>,
#> #   key_name <chr>, mode_name <chr>, key_mode <chr>, lyrics <list>

Finally, there is a small data set, taylor_albums, summarizing Taylor’s album release history.

taylor_albums
#> # A tibble: 17 × 5
#>    album_name                    ep    album_release metacritic_score user_score
#>    <chr>                         <lgl> <date>                   <int>      <dbl>
#>  1 Taylor Swift                  FALSE 2006-10-24                  67        8.4
#>  2 The Taylor Swift Holiday Col… TRUE  2007-10-14                  NA       NA  
#>  3 Beautiful Eyes                TRUE  2008-07-15                  NA       NA  
#>  4 Fearless                      FALSE 2008-11-11                  73        8.4
#>  5 Speak Now                     FALSE 2010-10-25                  77        8.6
#>  6 Red                           FALSE 2012-10-22                  77        8.6
#>  7 1989                          FALSE 2014-10-27                  76        8.3
#>  8 reputation                    FALSE 2017-11-10                  71        8.3
#>  9 Lover                         FALSE 2019-08-23                  79        8.4
#> 10 folklore                      FALSE 2020-07-24                  88        9  
#> 11 evermore                      FALSE 2020-12-11                  85        8.9
#> 12 Fearless (Taylor's Version)   FALSE 2021-04-09                  82        8.9
#> 13 Red (Taylor's Version)        FALSE 2021-11-12                  91        8.9
#> 14 Midnights                     FALSE 2022-10-21                  85        8.3
#> 15 Speak Now (Taylor's Version)  FALSE 2023-07-07                  81        9.2
#> 16 1989 (Taylor's Version)       FALSE 2023-10-27                  90       NA  
#> 17 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT FALSE 2024-04-19                  76       NA

Contributions are welcome. To ensure a smooth process, please review the Contributing Guide. Please note that the taylor project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.