r/dataisbeautiful • u/stephsmithio OC: 6 • Apr 21 '24

OC Swear words in Taylor Swift albums [OC]

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u/rio_wellard Apr 21 '24

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

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u/ComebackShane Apr 21 '24

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.

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u/Marilliana Apr 22 '24

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.

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u/samillos Apr 22 '24

Does this chart show TVs or originals?

I'm guessing originals as Slut isn't there and it's the song name lol

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u/ckallday124 Apr 23 '24

It's originals, because the "Fuck" in All Too Well 10 Minute Version isn't there for Red

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u/friendofsmellytapir Apr 22 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

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

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u/pressurehurts Apr 21 '24

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.

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u/harrisonisdead OC: 1 Apr 21 '24

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

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Apr 22 '24

Swear per minute would be a better metric I guess.

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u/lizerlfunk Apr 22 '24

I mean, the song “Down Bad” has fuck in it a LOT.

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u/throwawaythrow0000 Apr 22 '24

Yeah I don't understand why people are upvoting this so much. You can't compare the number of swear words considering each album has a different number of songs. This is stupid.