The data that I have collected is a collection of all the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s songs across her various albums. This includes a document for each of her twelve albums with all of that album’s lyrics on it, as well as files with the plain text version of each song. The data is sourced from Reddit and Kaggle, where users had already separated these songs and organized them by album. From both of these sources, I have all of Taylor Swift’s lyrics, organized in two different ways for analysis (song by song for each album, and by album as a whole). With this data, someone could learn about the general themes across Swift’s different albums from the frequency of words per song in each album. One could also learn about her lyricism and word choice through this data, and how this may have changed over time throughout her many eras. As for general trends seen before my in depth analysis, I definitely see that her later albums have richer lyrics, with more profound words showing up than in some of her earlier songs. I have also noticed that her albums greatly vary in length, some have around ten tracks, while others have close to thirty. This has to do with some albums having deluxe versions or extra songs from her re-recordings, and others not having these features.
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