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Source: NEWS.md

taylor (development version)

  • 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).

  • Added “us.” from Gracie Abrams’s The Secret of Us to taylor_all_songs.

  • Added songs for which Taylor has written (but didn’t record or feature on) to taylor_all_songs. 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

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

taylor 3.1.0

CRAN release: 2024-05-08

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 fixed

  • 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

CRAN release: 2023-11-06

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

CRAN release: 2023-03-08

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

CRAN release: 2022-11-08

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

CRAN release: 2021-12-14

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

CRAN release: 2021-09-23

  • 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

CRAN release: 2021-08-17

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