You've always been able to access the humanized version for the current value like this:

song = Song.new(:genre => 'pop')
song.humanized_genre # => 'Pop music'

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You can now also retrieve the humanized version of any given value by passing it as an argument:

song.humanized_genre('rock') # => 'Rock music'