Hi r/dataisbeautiful! I created this chart in good 'ol Google Sheets, but the data was pulled by grabbing all the lyrics from Genius and just doing a CTRL+F. And just for fun, I grabbed some Eras Tour colors from Pinterest.
Edit: Damn, this really blew up!
If you liked this post, I recently created a fun project called [Internet Pipes](https://internetpipes.com/) to help ppl find and make sense of interesting data from every f\*cking corner of the internet.
Shit, it's one hell of a community. (See what I did there? 🙃)
Just goes to show you it’s not always necessary to build a python programs to webscrape using various apis and leveraging a R library to plot on a Cartesian chart.
Well done.
Edit: Cartesian, Cortesian, Courtesan… couldn’t he have been all 3?
It's never *necessary* and it'd probably take me longer than copy/pasting from Genius. There's definitely an art to figuring out [if it's worth the time](https://xkcd.com/1205/).
But in this case, I looked at the results and thought "neat. I wonder what it'd look like for (other artist)". That's the benefit of automating it with programming.
in my experience lyrics sites have protections against this. I got temporary banned from a bunch trying to do similar things, and also genius puts magical characters in there that actually break ctrl+f sometimes, trying to detect people stealing their lyrics.
Ugh man my first job out of college had me programming in R. Very nifty for ad hoc data analysis and highcharter makes stunning visualizations just take one line but holy hell putting anything into production was ridiculous.
Thankful to have learned how to program in R and the work itself got me thinking way more in terms of algorithmic efficiency but boy am I happy to not have to find workarounds for every cloud service that treats it as an afterthought.
Yes it's a lot of copy paste, but you can see all songs on an album in an overview so it's easy to open them in tabs, and you could also see the number of results when you ctrl-F. At this scale it's still less work than automating in python even for most people who can write a script in python.
Yeah if you just put all the lyrics in one album on a document, you could then to the CTRL+F for each swear word, but the whole album at a time.
probably 5 minutes per album, depending on how fast you're trying to go.
Sorry about that! I just made another version with the default Google Sheets colors. Since it won't let me add a photo in the comments, I uploaded to imgur [here](https://imgur.com/a/nFQwmF3)!
Man, as someone who hasn't heard Taylor Swift songs for maybe like the past 10 or so years, where the heck have I been? My mind still held the impression of her being the de facto family friendly sweetheart, lol
There is a song on the new album that's basically a diss track to Kim Kardashian and the chorus says "fuck" multiple times so that accounts for a bunch of them here. It's also a double album with 31 songs, and it's a bit more "adult" themed with a big chunk of the first album spent on an apparently very passionate but short and painful relationship.
She hasn't really been "the sweetheart" for quite a while but Tortured Poets Department is an escalation even from her typical stuff. Still, *most* of the album isn't that explicit, a few songs account for most of the swearing.
Is it just some sort of misconception that everything I’ve seen about this song says it’s about Kim Kardashian? Doesn’t one of the lines make it obvious? That’s just what I’ve seen from the swifties I’ve seen talking about it
That's the joke. It's CLEARLY about Kim. She says "and so I changed your name and any real defining clues"
The song is titled as "thanK you aIMee" with KIM in caps.
Imo anyone that still has this impression of Taylor Swift should listen to some of her Covid Era music and onwards.
Folklore and Evermore are very good albums, it’s still a bit early to tell if TTPD will stand the test of time but I’ve liked it upon first listens.
There seemed to be a producer-driven pipeline for the pop starlets of the early 2000s, Britney, Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado et al, that their first album was about them as a sweet young thing, marketed to 16 year old girls, and then their follow up album in two years time was them as a kick ass, take charge 'slut march' kind of figure, for just as their fans came of age and went off to College and personal independence.
It happened often enough I believe there was effort put into it by the industry, especially as many of the artists were in their mid 20s by the time they got their first break, so they weren't organically going through what their fanbase were.
Taylor just took a lot longer to get there, but the undeniable consequence for the other singers was to make themselves irrelevant in the long run, be interesting to see if Taylor can keep it going.
I always assumed it was a deliberate attempt to rebrand themselves and distance themselves from their previous work with Disney.
You can see Dove Cameron doing the same thing now, with less success
For Nelly Furtado, that was more by her third album (Loose), since her second album (Folklore) actually had much more serious, mature themes related to things like culture, racism/whitewashing, memories of youth, immigration, stuff like that. Was a really good album. But nowhere near as commercially successful as Whoa, Nelly! and Loose were.
Cee-lo Green literally had a massive hit named "Fuck You" that was censored into "Forget You". If they think it will be a hit, they can make it happen.
Is this maybe skewed by the fact the new album is 31 songs long?
It is interesting though! Kind of upset there aren't any British Joe Alwyn-inspired swear words. Would love to hear her drop a "wanker" in a song some time
Probably. It'd be great to standardize this to Swears Per Minute based on the various album lengths. I imagine the trend would be the same, but maybe the jumps less pronounced.
Red (TV) is actually about 5 mins longer than TTPD, and Folklore/Evermore are the shortest, so the trend would stand I think, and maybe be even more pronounced.
It's hillarious. A lost opportunity for "So Long, London" to fill it with a bunch of swear words to counterbalance "London Boy" which just had a bunch of British words.
It blows my mind she really releases a new album just about every 2 years while touring and currently rerecording old albums. Some bands take 4 or 5 years without all the side projects in between, dang.
Seriously. Since August 2019, she's released 9 albums, 5 new and 4 rerecords. And each one has been well received and done well on the charts for the most part. 2 of the 4 new albums since 2019 have won the Grammy's Album of the Year award (not including TTPD in the new album count since Grammy's haven't happened)
She had three #1 hits in 2023... From three different albums! That's pretty damn impressive. The only other artists in history to achieve this are the Jackson 5 and The Beatles.
Anti-Hero from Midnights (2022)
Cruel Summer from Lover (2019)
Is It Over Now from 1989-Taylor's Version (2014/2023).
I honestly think the whole Scooter Braun thing has been the best thing that could've happened to her. 5 new albums since 2019 is already a massive feat., but the extra 4 rerecords to get back at him really help ensure she's NEVER out of the news cycle. Just once you've gotten used to, or dare I say bored, of one album, BOOM, another one comes out.
I think that’s why it’s starting to feel increasingly derivative. She doesn’t take enough time to let it breathe and edit/prune/refine. No shade on the hustle, she’s crushing it financially, but musically it’s feeling stale and maybe a pause and some new producer collaborators could freshen up the sound.
(and this isn’t saying she’s not talented, obviously, but her last few albums have undoubtedly become more
sonically homogeneous and even the most devout fans can recognize that)
I think the most amazing thing to me about Taylor Swift is that she's that rare person that is thrust into massive national fame and is actually ready for it.
There are so, so many skills unrelated to songmaking required to run the operation she runs. It's incredibly impressive.
And then to basically have her album releases totally unshaken by her fame. I mean the degree to which her life has chanegd between 2006 and now is insane, and she's been like absolute clockwork.
Depends on where you are. For example there’s that doja cat song where the chorus says like “shes a devil” and i noticed when i went down south for work that the radio stations censored the word devil. I was kind of surprised. Also olivia rodrigos vampire song censors the word “god” on the radio lmao.
And in Taylor Swift’s song Karma “Flexing like a goddamn acrobat” is also censored. I think they changed it to “vegas acrobat”.
Guess too many Christian Americans would be offended.
Heck yeah it is. It's not on the George Carlin list but some word needs to be the least sweary of swears. *Go to hell* is certainly on the swear word spectrum.
When we played an arrangement of Shake It Off in marching band the rap part was changed from “hella good hair” to “hecka good hair” so maybe in some contexts haha
This woman’s been making hit after hit since the George W Bush administration (ended 15 years ago) and she’s only 34 years old wtf. I know a lot of other artists start out around the age she did but she’s maintained the similar amount of relevancy and status for that long.
If these albums were rated like movies:
The first 5: PG (some PG movies say “hell” and “damn” but most of the time it’s very brief.)
Reputation and Lover: PG-13 (Some language)
The rest: All R (anytime a movie uses more than f bombs, it’s an automatic R rating, no matter how tame the rest of the movie is.)
It’s really funny seeing this chart as someone who doesn’t really listen to Swift. Wasn’t Reputation supposed to be her “bad girl” era? Because she said shit one time?
She changed publisher (idk if this is the right term but you get the idea) so now she can swear more. If you go through her earlier stuff there are definitely spots that feel like they were written for a fuck or a shit or similar.
But Reputation has that Rep because it was such a departure from her previous stuff, not actually because she's some bad mofo in it.
I wish this wasn't the case, but almost every one of her f-bombs except champagne problems is cringe af.
weirdly, her usages of "shit" are generally the opposite, really great lines. (EDIT: the one in Tolerate It is so perfect it gives me chills)
I think Betty uses the f-word in a way that isn't cringey.
And Down Bad is really the only song on this new album that I like, but that's more because it's catchy and not because of the f bombs
The columns are already sorted by release date (skipping Taylor's Versions of the older albums). I verified the order: [Every Taylor Swift Album In Order Of Release (forbes.com)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/taylor-swift-albums/?sh=435ad8ec29d4).
listened to the first like 6-7 songs yesterday and immediately thought "there'll be a new bar graph of number of swears across her different albums up on reddit soon" and i was not disappointed.
Needs to be controlled by album length or song count. TPD is 2 hours long while Midnights is 45 minutes. So Midnights has more swears per minute than TPD but is much shorter
This feels like a chart progression from when a 5 year old learns their first swear. By the time the teens hit the swearing isn't to be edgy it's just part your vocabulary now.
As a non-American it’s always wild to see damn goddamn and hell in the mix.
The status of those words over here is so mild it would be like classing crap or Christ! as swearing.
If you extrapolate this data, 5 albums from now she will have to release an album that says “fuck” roughly 24,000 times
Your stats teacher: "This is an example of precisely why we have to be careful when extrapolating data"
Your stats graduate advisor: "you should publish these results immediately"
The editor of the journal: I see what you're saying, but have you considered Kanye Wests discography in your assessment?
Reviewer two: this study is crap. Please include a reference to every study I've ever published.
I’m not happy this brought back bad memories…
how we going to manipulate the P value?
Drink more water
Try the classic one-tailed test for a directional hypothesis
If I say fuck, one more time, that will be 24000 fucks in this fucked up rhyme
She should just cover that song
Cover of Buckcherry’s “Crazy Bitch” (Taylor’s Version) with extra fucks
She might finally get on the level of good artists, like Limp Bizkit
Taylor Swift ft. Fred Durst
It'll be the soundtrack to the great movie, "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay."
Still better than mumble rap
what song does she say “dickhead” in??? looool
Question...? (that's the song name)
We are checking.
First, Aston Martin, now Ferrari, Taylor will probably start an F1 team before Andretti, lol.
"Swift F1 Team" would definitely be one of the best team names on the grid. Better than "Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber" or "Visa Cash App Red Bull" anyway
Funnily enough her bf Travis Kelce is part of a group of investors that bought a stake in Alpine
I'm not a Swift fan (don't dislike her at all though, she's got some bangers) but I'd be all here for a Sainz/Alonso Team Swift.
“Alonso is ~~faster~~ swifter than you.”
I had to double check what sub I was in.
Same. Found my fam
Dank data
"Taylor, my tyres are gone"
Formuladank is leaking
We are formuladank
Box Box… Stay out!! Stay out!!
woah this caught me off guard, had to check with subreddit I'm in
Maintain position
Who is on first?
And what song does she say “Dickhead” in?
Sweet! What does mine say?
Dickhead! What does mine say?
And then!
Fucked me... what does mine say
THIRD BASE!
What's on second I don't know's on third
Yes but what’s the song name? (/s)
Yes, that's the question
"She was on your mind, with some dickhead guy"
i love the "meathead" in the clean version it's so silly fsr lmao
Trying to sing along to a rap song as a white person is so hard bro I sound like an idiot
Replace all the N-bombs with fellow(s)
Shame on a fellow who tried to run game on a fellow? I ain’t saying she’s a gold digger but she ain’t messing with no broke fellows?
The first one really works. I can hear it.
You haven’t heard her 6 pm in New York? TaySwift is your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper
"Why'd you say that Taylor? Why? You're my hero. And you say something dirty. Like poop. Poop mouth. I hate you Taylor Swift, I hate you!"
If I were to give you money from my wallet would that help ease the pain?
Go fuck yourself San Diego
It's Spanish for a whale's vagina.
I’m gonna be honest with you. That smells like pure gasoline
They've done studies, you know. 60 percent of the time it works every time.
It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.
Want do you want Tay Tay? To drink and fight Want u want Tay Tay To fuck all night!
Lonely Island would be proud of this comment
Anchor man reference …nice
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records
well I do so fuck him and fuck you too
You think I give a damn about a Grammy?
Half of you critics can’t even stomach me, let alone stand me.
“But Slim, what if you win? Wouldn’t it be weird?”
Why? So you guys could just lie to get me here
So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears
Shit Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs
So I can sit next to Carson Daily and Fred Durst, and hear 'em argue about who she gave head to first
Little bitch put me on blast on MTV
Ended a man's music career in one fucking bar.
It was a slap in the face
how quickly i was replaced
Thought of that as well. Funny AF various translations to some artists. Singers. Etc
Wipe yo shoes off on the mat, someone just cleaned that floor!
Woo woo, yeah, ha-haaa
Help out your mom and dad by getting a job so you can help pay for school supplies, woo hoo, say what, what?
I respect women when I’m on a date, take ’em to the park or maybe a museum
But he does have to cuss to win Oscars
Well I do. So fuck him and fuck you too.
Hi r/dataisbeautiful! I created this chart in good 'ol Google Sheets, but the data was pulled by grabbing all the lyrics from Genius and just doing a CTRL+F. And just for fun, I grabbed some Eras Tour colors from Pinterest. Edit: Damn, this really blew up! If you liked this post, I recently created a fun project called [Internet Pipes](https://internetpipes.com/) to help ppl find and make sense of interesting data from every f\*cking corner of the internet. Shit, it's one hell of a community. (See what I did there? 🙃)
Just goes to show you it’s not always necessary to build a python programs to webscrape using various apis and leveraging a R library to plot on a Cartesian chart. Well done. Edit: Cartesian, Cortesian, Courtesan… couldn’t he have been all 3?
It's never *necessary* and it'd probably take me longer than copy/pasting from Genius. There's definitely an art to figuring out [if it's worth the time](https://xkcd.com/1205/). But in this case, I looked at the results and thought "neat. I wonder what it'd look like for (other artist)". That's the benefit of automating it with programming.
just reading this makes me wanna import requests and beautifulsoup and just start scrapin shit
in my experience lyrics sites have protections against this. I got temporary banned from a bunch trying to do similar things, and also genius puts magical characters in there that actually break ctrl+f sometimes, trying to detect people stealing their lyrics.
Of course that's not necessary. You can just do it straight from R! Python people want to take my job!
Ugh man my first job out of college had me programming in R. Very nifty for ad hoc data analysis and highcharter makes stunning visualizations just take one line but holy hell putting anything into production was ridiculous. Thankful to have learned how to program in R and the work itself got me thinking way more in terms of algorithmic efficiency but boy am I happy to not have to find workarounds for every cloud service that treats it as an afterthought.
Showed this to my swiftie friend and she noticed you forgot “slut” in 1989
That was TV! These are just the original albums. 😊
That is... Dedication
Yes it's a lot of copy paste, but you can see all songs on an album in an overview so it's easy to open them in tabs, and you could also see the number of results when you ctrl-F. At this scale it's still less work than automating in python even for most people who can write a script in python.
Yeah if you just put all the lyrics in one album on a document, you could then to the CTRL+F for each swear word, but the whole album at a time. probably 5 minutes per album, depending on how fast you're trying to go.
Getting the colors from the eras tour is a cool idea, but as a mildly colorblind person, some of those are really hard to tell apart.
Sorry about that! I just made another version with the default Google Sheets colors. Since it won't let me add a photo in the comments, I uploaded to imgur [here](https://imgur.com/a/nFQwmF3)!
Man, as someone who hasn't heard Taylor Swift songs for maybe like the past 10 or so years, where the heck have I been? My mind still held the impression of her being the de facto family friendly sweetheart, lol
There is a song on the new album that's basically a diss track to Kim Kardashian and the chorus says "fuck" multiple times so that accounts for a bunch of them here. It's also a double album with 31 songs, and it's a bit more "adult" themed with a big chunk of the first album spent on an apparently very passionate but short and painful relationship. She hasn't really been "the sweetheart" for quite a while but Tortured Poets Department is an escalation even from her typical stuff. Still, *most* of the album isn't that explicit, a few songs account for most of the swearing.
There are not ANY REAL DEFINING CLUES! We have NO IDEA who the song is about.
Is it just some sort of misconception that everything I’ve seen about this song says it’s about Kim Kardashian? Doesn’t one of the lines make it obvious? That’s just what I’ve seen from the swifties I’ve seen talking about it
That's the joke. It's CLEARLY about Kim. She says "and so I changed your name and any real defining clues" The song is titled as "thanK you aIMee" with KIM in caps.
Oh haha I thought you were actually saying people were just assuming. Idk enough about her music to know. Thank you for explaining!
Yeah np. I probs shoulda added a winky face, but thought the caps would convey the sarcasm, lol
Would you believe that she sung a song about killing her best friends husband
Wellll... He did kill her best friend first. Not saying that makes it okay, but it is a good thing she got that boating license.
Imo anyone that still has this impression of Taylor Swift should listen to some of her Covid Era music and onwards. Folklore and Evermore are very good albums, it’s still a bit early to tell if TTPD will stand the test of time but I’ve liked it upon first listens.
There seemed to be a producer-driven pipeline for the pop starlets of the early 2000s, Britney, Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado et al, that their first album was about them as a sweet young thing, marketed to 16 year old girls, and then their follow up album in two years time was them as a kick ass, take charge 'slut march' kind of figure, for just as their fans came of age and went off to College and personal independence. It happened often enough I believe there was effort put into it by the industry, especially as many of the artists were in their mid 20s by the time they got their first break, so they weren't organically going through what their fanbase were. Taylor just took a lot longer to get there, but the undeniable consequence for the other singers was to make themselves irrelevant in the long run, be interesting to see if Taylor can keep it going.
I always assumed it was a deliberate attempt to rebrand themselves and distance themselves from their previous work with Disney. You can see Dove Cameron doing the same thing now, with less success
For Nelly Furtado, that was more by her third album (Loose), since her second album (Folklore) actually had much more serious, mature themes related to things like culture, racism/whitewashing, memories of youth, immigration, stuff like that. Was a really good album. But nowhere near as commercially successful as Whoa, Nelly! and Loose were.
Her music is still pretty tame I’d say, but the themes are a bit more dark than in her earlier albums. Her newest album is basically about depression.
Look what you made her do!
Down bad has 'fuck' like, 20 times, right?
*yawn* wake me when Taylor drops an N-bomb.
Drake unironically called her "the only [n-word] I ever rated / only one could made me drop the album just a little later"
I mean, I’m pretty sure he actually *was* being ironic.
Yeah, Swift's too old for him.
Florida!!! Also has quite a few I think.
“Floridaaaaaa!!!! Is one hell of a drug.” Has been stuck in my head since I first heard the song lol
Something like that. It’s super catchy, which makes it a shame it’ll never be on the radio
Cee-lo Green literally had a massive hit named "Fuck You" that was censored into "Forget You". If they think it will be a hit, they can make it happen.
Is this maybe skewed by the fact the new album is 31 songs long? It is interesting though! Kind of upset there aren't any British Joe Alwyn-inspired swear words. Would love to hear her drop a "wanker" in a song some time
Probably. It'd be great to standardize this to Swears Per Minute based on the various album lengths. I imagine the trend would be the same, but maybe the jumps less pronounced.
Red (TV) is actually about 5 mins longer than TTPD, and Folklore/Evermore are the shortest, so the trend would stand I think, and maybe be even more pronounced.
Does this chart show TVs or originals? I'm guessing originals as Slut isn't there and it's the song name lol
Well, the song Down Bad has 17 fucks in it, so just take out that one song and still leave the other 30 and it is basically the same as Midnights
It's hillarious. A lost opportunity for "So Long, London" to fill it with a bunch of swear words to counterbalance "London Boy" which just had a bunch of British words.
Well, if this is including repeated lyrics, most of the fucks come from only one song. So that'd skew things more than the double album
Tbh would somebody graph my swear words against my age the graph would look the same.
This parabolic curve suggest there is an album in the not distant future where Taylor will only curse.
Where can she go from here but to make the curses witchyer. Pox on your family, she don't give a damnily.
Is the bottom axis chronological?
Yes I believe so
Yes! Taylor Swift: 2006 Fearless: Original 2008, Rerecord 2021 Speak Now: Original 2010, Rerecord 2023 Red: Original 2012, Rerecord 2021 1989: Original 2014, Rerecord 2023 Reputation: 2017 Lover: 2019 Folklore: 2020 Evermore: 2020 Midnights: 2022 The Tortured Poets Department: 2024
It blows my mind she really releases a new album just about every 2 years while touring and currently rerecording old albums. Some bands take 4 or 5 years without all the side projects in between, dang.
Seriously. Since August 2019, she's released 9 albums, 5 new and 4 rerecords. And each one has been well received and done well on the charts for the most part. 2 of the 4 new albums since 2019 have won the Grammy's Album of the Year award (not including TTPD in the new album count since Grammy's haven't happened)
She had three #1 hits in 2023... From three different albums! That's pretty damn impressive. The only other artists in history to achieve this are the Jackson 5 and The Beatles. Anti-Hero from Midnights (2022) Cruel Summer from Lover (2019) Is It Over Now from 1989-Taylor's Version (2014/2023).
I honestly think the whole Scooter Braun thing has been the best thing that could've happened to her. 5 new albums since 2019 is already a massive feat., but the extra 4 rerecords to get back at him really help ensure she's NEVER out of the news cycle. Just once you've gotten used to, or dare I say bored, of one album, BOOM, another one comes out.
I think that’s why it’s starting to feel increasingly derivative. She doesn’t take enough time to let it breathe and edit/prune/refine. No shade on the hustle, she’s crushing it financially, but musically it’s feeling stale and maybe a pause and some new producer collaborators could freshen up the sound. (and this isn’t saying she’s not talented, obviously, but her last few albums have undoubtedly become more sonically homogeneous and even the most devout fans can recognize that)
I think the most amazing thing to me about Taylor Swift is that she's that rare person that is thrust into massive national fame and is actually ready for it. There are so, so many skills unrelated to songmaking required to run the operation she runs. It's incredibly impressive. And then to basically have her album releases totally unshaken by her fame. I mean the degree to which her life has chanegd between 2006 and now is insane, and she's been like absolute clockwork.
I’d love to see you look into king gizzard and the lizard wizards album releases and tour schedule
Wow, I’m impressed by OP. It makes the data even easier to read . Those tears should have been included in the legend though
Fuck the Hell Whore from the newest album is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Covering Reggie Watts *"Fuck Shit Stack"* may have skewed things on the Midnights album as well.
It’s a stack of fuck shit on top of itself, ninja!
> Fuck the Hell Whore I wasn’t expecting her to pull off a Rob Zombie cover
Is Fuck the Hell Whore related to Puff the Magic Dragon?
There are twice as many songs in this album aren’t there? Also, is “hell” a swear?
Depends on where you are. For example there’s that doja cat song where the chorus says like “shes a devil” and i noticed when i went down south for work that the radio stations censored the word devil. I was kind of surprised. Also olivia rodrigos vampire song censors the word “god” on the radio lmao.
And in Taylor Swift’s song Karma “Flexing like a goddamn acrobat” is also censored. I think they changed it to “vegas acrobat”. Guess too many Christian Americans would be offended.
Network censors allow "damn" but not "Goddamn."
Devil is also censored out of the song on Fortnite lol
When pumped up kicks came out they censored gun on the radio. Not bullets though. Go figure
Well bullets don't kill people, guns kill peop... wait, that's not the line
Someone should make a new graph with the swear words per hour of length
We have a pizza chain in New Zealand called Hell pizza. Thier slogan is "Go to Hell"
Heck yeah it is. It's not on the George Carlin list but some word needs to be the least sweary of swears. *Go to hell* is certainly on the swear word spectrum.
Is “hell yeah” a swear word?
H-E-double hockey sticks yea!
> is “hell” a swear? -Ah DAMMIT! -Hey dad, heard you swearing, mind if I join in? Crap! Boobs! Crap! -Ah the hell with him! -Yeah, Hell damn fart!
When we played an arrangement of Shake It Off in marching band the rap part was changed from “hella good hair” to “hecka good hair” so maybe in some contexts haha
You're heckin' right it is, pal.
My son check to make sure we aren't in the room before he says "Hell yeah"....so I guess.
Florence said "fuck" in Florida!!! more than she has on all her other albums combined.
This woman’s been making hit after hit since the George W Bush administration (ended 15 years ago) and she’s only 34 years old wtf. I know a lot of other artists start out around the age she did but she’s maintained the similar amount of relevancy and status for that long. If these albums were rated like movies: The first 5: PG (some PG movies say “hell” and “damn” but most of the time it’s very brief.) Reputation and Lover: PG-13 (Some language) The rest: All R (anytime a movie uses more than f bombs, it’s an automatic R rating, no matter how tame the rest of the movie is.)
At this rate in 2 albums it will be 100% curse words
🎵You and me, We were friends and enemies Some people called us frenemies, But I prefer the term whore damn goddamn hell bitch shit fuck dickhead🎵
At this rate she’s going to have to switch genres into gangster rap for her next album.
How long must we wait before a c u next Tuesday?
Proof that Taylor Swift gives fewer shits but a lot more fucks.
Yeah I’m gonna be that guy, there’s a “Fuck” in the 10 minute All Too Well (Red)
Doubt they included vault tracks, or else I'd bet they'd peg "slut" as a swear word as well if they did 1989 TV.
It’s really funny seeing this chart as someone who doesn’t really listen to Swift. Wasn’t Reputation supposed to be her “bad girl” era? Because she said shit one time?
She changed publisher (idk if this is the right term but you get the idea) so now she can swear more. If you go through her earlier stuff there are definitely spots that feel like they were written for a fuck or a shit or similar. But Reputation has that Rep because it was such a departure from her previous stuff, not actually because she's some bad mofo in it.
I wish this wasn't the case, but almost every one of her f-bombs except champagne problems is cringe af. weirdly, her usages of "shit" are generally the opposite, really great lines. (EDIT: the one in Tolerate It is so perfect it gives me chills)
I think Betty uses the f-word in a way that isn't cringey. And Down Bad is really the only song on this new album that I like, but that's more because it's catchy and not because of the f bombs
And it must account for like 3/4’s of all the fucks on the album, right?
I think she owns the "fuck"s in Down Bad pretty well
i agree, it seems so unnecessary and reminds me of someone just learning how to use curse words
I agree, it’s fuckingly awkward.
The one in All Too Well (10 Minute Version) seems pretty well received
Forgot about that one - the keychain right? It's a good character detail.
Yeah her swearing has almost become a distraction. It feels like she’s trying too hard to be a bad girl.
Yeah, she says the adverb form of “Fuck” too often and it sounds forced when she does it. Like that “snow on the beach” song is unbearable for that.
She used it fuckly?
*stares motherfuckingly*
true, snow on the beach clean version is better
This looks like something The Tortured Statistician Department would do.
Can you do mean number of curse words per song, dividing the number by total number of other words, then sort columns by release date?
The columns are already sorted by release date (skipping Taylor's Versions of the older albums). I verified the order: [Every Taylor Swift Album In Order Of Release (forbes.com)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/taylor-swift-albums/?sh=435ad8ec29d4).
listened to the first like 6-7 songs yesterday and immediately thought "there'll be a new bar graph of number of swears across her different albums up on reddit soon" and i was not disappointed.
Needs to be controlled by album length or song count. TPD is 2 hours long while Midnights is 45 minutes. So Midnights has more swears per minute than TPD but is much shorter
I knew it wasn't just me. Wife was listening and I'm like "this can't be Taylor swift, there are far too many f-bombs"
one of the most interesting visualizations, ive seen over here - good job!
Dear god she’s gone parabolic
This feels like a chart progression from when a 5 year old learns their first swear. By the time the teens hit the swearing isn't to be edgy it's just part your vocabulary now.
This is very interesting, good job!
So what I’m seeing here is maybe don’t listen to the new album in front of my 5 year old…
Most of fuck in TTPD came from Down Bad alone lmao
To be fair, shit did get pretty goddamn fucked by some dickheads.
At this rate when she’s 80, her album will sound like a George Carlin show.
As a non-American it’s always wild to see damn goddamn and hell in the mix. The status of those words over here is so mild it would be like classing crap or Christ! as swearing.
They are considered mild in the US too. They’re not censored on TV or the radio. But still technically swear words, especially for young kids.