taylor 4.0.0

Breaking changes

• taylor_all_songs and taylor_album_songs now use audio features from the SoundStat API due to Spotify removing access to their audio features endpoint.
  • Lost columns: liveness, speechiness, time_signature.
  • Data may be slightly different due to differences between the Spotify and new SoundStat API (conversions available if desired through the convert_values argument to get_soundstat_audio_features()).
• Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989 have been added back to taylor_album_songs now that Taylor owns all of her masters. Both the originals and Taylor’s Version’s are now included in the dataset.

New features

New data

• New data and visualization tools have been added for The Life of a Showgirl.
  • Added lyrics and SoundStat audio features to taylor_all_songs and taylor_album_songs.
  • Added composite critic score from Metacritic to taylor_albums.
  • Added a new themed color palette to album_palettes.
  • Added a new single color to album_compare.
• Two new songs added where Taylor is credited as a writer
  • “Bein’ With My Baby” from Shea Fisher’s Shea
  • “This Is Really Happening” from Britni Hoover’s Country Strong

API access

• get_spotify_track_info() is now exported to use for gathering track metadata.

• get_soundstat_audio_features() and get_reccobeats_audio_features() have been added to provide access to audio features through the SoundStat and ReccoBeats APIs, respectively.

• New helper functions for setting up API configuration.

  • set_spotify_api_key() / get_spotify_api_key()
  • set_soundstat_api_key() / get_soundstat_api_key()

• taylor_sitrep() can be used to quickly check the configuration of API keys.

Minor improvements and fixes

• scale_color_albums() and scale_fill_albums() now recognize alternate capitalization (e.g., Folklore instead of folklore) and common nicknames (e.g., Debut for Taylor Swift) when mapping album_compare to album names.

taylor 3.2.0

New features

• taylor_all_songs has been updated to include the new feature, “us.”, from Gracie Abrams’s The Secret of Us.

• taylor_all_songs has been updated to include songs for which Taylor has written (but didn’t record or feature on). This includes:

  • “1 step forward, 3 steps back” and “deja vu” from Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR
  • “Best Days Of Your Life” from Kellie Pickler’s self-titled album
  • “Better Man” from Little Big Town’s The Breaker
  • “This is What You Came For” by Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna)
  • “TMZ” from Weird Al Yankovic’s Apocalypse
  • “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home” from Miley Cyrus on the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack

Minor improvements and fixes

• Error messages have been improved display the function that was called, rather than function where the error appeared (@olivroy, #49).

• Color palettes are now displayed using cli instead of crayon (@olivroy, #49).

• Spotify data for John Mayer’s “Half Of My Heart,” has been removed, as the version featuring Taylor Swift is no longer available.

• eras_tour_surprise has been updated to include surprise songs from the European and final North American legs of the tour.

taylor 3.1.0

New features

• New data and visualization tools have been added for THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT.

  • Added lyrics and Spotify audio features to taylor_all_songs and taylor_album_songs.
  • Added composite critic score from Metacritic to taylor_albums.
  • Added a new themed color palette to album_palettes.
  • Added a new single color to album_compare.

• Spotify data for “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” has been added.

• Surprise songs from the South American and Asia-Pacific legs of the tour have been added to eras_tour_surprise.

Minor improvements and fixes

• Fixed installation instructions in README (@scarioscia, #37).

• Corrected non-ASCII characters in data-raw/lyrics/ (@ericwu17, #44, #45).

• Updated documentation with additional vignettes.

  • vignette("taylor") provides and overview of the package and links to example analyses.
  • vigentte("lyrics") describes different methods for accessing lyrics in a nested list column (#35).

taylor 3.0.0

Breaking changes

• Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) has replaced Speak Now in taylor_album_songs (#25).

• 1989 (Taylor’s Version) has replaced 1989 in taylor_album_songs (#30).

New features

• A new data set, eras_tour_surprise has been added that includes information on all of the surprise songs played on the first North American leg of The Eras Tour.

• A new function, translate_bracelet() can be used to find the song and line from the first letter of each word, as is common on the Eras Tour friendship bracelets.

Minor improvements and fixes

• New color palettes added to album_palettes for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

• New single colors added to album_compare for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

• Metacritic scores for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have been added to taylor_albums.

• Hex logo and pkgdown website have been updated to have a 1989 (Taylor’s Version) theme.

• Added Spotify data for “Hits Different” after it was released to streaming as part of Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition).

• Added “Snow on the Beach (More Lana Del Rey)” and “Karma (Remix)” from Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition).

• Added “The Alcott” from The National’s First Two Pages of Frankenstein to taylor_all_songs.

• Added Era’s Tour promotional singles “All of the Girls You Loved Before,” “If This Was a Movie (Taylor’s Version),” “Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version),” and “Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version).”

• “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” and “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” have been moved from non-album singles to 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

• The type argument of color_palette() has been removed. This argument was previously deprecated with a warning in version 1.0.0.

taylor 2.0.1

Minor improvements and fixes

• Fixed S3 generic/method consistency issue for vctrs classes that was creating a warning in r-devel on CRAN.

• Updated Metacritic user ratings.

taylor 2.0.0

Breaking changes

• Added Midnights to taylor_all_songs and taylor_album_songs.

• Spotify updated audio data for songs on Red (Taylor’s Version). These changes are reflected in taylor_all_songs and taylor_album_songs.

• Spotify updated audio data for “Renegade”. These changes are reflected in taylor_all_songs and taylor_album_songs.

New features

• A new user_score column for user ratings from Metacritic was added to taylor_albums.

• Added “Lover (Remix)” with Shawn Mendes, Taylor’s cover of Earth, Wind, and Fire’s “September,” and “Three Sad Virgins” from Saturday Night Live to taylor_all_songs.

• Added “Carolina” from the Where the Crawdads Sing soundtrack to taylor_all_songs.

• “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” has been added as a non-album single. Presumably this will eventually move to 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

• Added “The Joker and the Queen” from Ed Sheeran’s = to taylor_all_songs.

Minor improvements and fixes

• New color palette added to album_palettes for Midnights.

• New single color added to album_compare for Midnights.

• Metacritic score for Midnights has been added to taylor_albums.

• Fixed some additional non-ASCII characters in the lyrics for all albums (@ericwu17, #16).

• Minor tweaks to the color palettes for each album to better capture the vibes, rather than just pulling from album artwork.

taylor 1.0.0

Breaking changes

• Red (Taylor’s Version) has replaced Red in taylor_album_songs (#9).

• The type argument of color_palette() is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Previously, if you wanted to interpolate more colors between those originally specified, you needed to specify type = "continuous". This was misleading, because color_palette() still returned a discrete number of colors (n). Now, interpolation happens automatically if n is greater than length(pal).

  my_colors <- c(ku_blue = "#0051ba", "firebrick", "#ffc82d")
  my_palette <- color_palette(my_colors)
  
  # old
  color_palette(my_palette, n = 10, type = "continuous")
  color_palette(my_palette, n = 2, type = "discrete")
  
  # new
  color_palette(my_palette, n = 10)
  color_palette(my_palette, n = 2)

Minor improvements and fixes

• New color palette added to album_palettes for Red (Taylor’s Version).

• New single color added to album_compare for Red (Taylor’s Version).

• Metacritic score for Red (Taylor’s Version) has been added to taylor_albums.

• “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” has been added as a non-album single. Presumably this will eventually move to 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

• Hex logo and pkgdown website have been updated to have a Red (Taylor’s Version) theme.

• Fix the majority of non-ASCII characters in song lyrics. Remaining characters are en/em dashes and letters with accent marks.

• color_palette() now preserves color names, either through R color specifications (i.e., colors()) or a named vector supplied to pal (#12).

  my_colors <- c(ku_blue = "#0051ba", "firebrick", "#ffc82d")
  color_palette(my_colors)

taylor 0.2.1

• Added “Birch” from Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? to taylor_all_songs.

• Updated tests for the upcoming release of testthat (@hadley, #10).

taylor 0.2.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.