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Aug 23, 2019 · Album takeaway: Taylor has synesthesia, is still mourning love lost despite being in a happy partnership with Silk Original Flavor Boy Joe Alwyn, but has shared her log of those...
- Jill Gutowitz
- Contributor
Jan 25, 2020 · Taylor Swift's relationship with her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, inspired the song "Lover," up for Song of the Year at the 2020 Grammys. Here's the full meaning.
- Elena Nicolaou
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- Raisa Bruner
- “I Forgot That You Existed” Swift kicks things off with a light mission statement of sorts: insisting that she’s moved on — whether it’s from an ex or a feud remains a mystery.
- “Cruel Summer” Swift’s summers used to be all about her annual celebrity-studded Fourth of July party at her estate in Rhode Island. But in “Cruel Summer” she suggests the season has taken a turn for her as she tries to conceal a new love interest: “I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you.”
- “Lover” Put out just a week before the album release as her third single, the title track “Lover” is an acoustic, folksy tune that is, yes, a love song.
- “The Man” In “The Man,” Swift makes a statement about sexist double standards around her choices. “They’d say I played the field before I found someone to commit to, and that would be okay for me to do,” she sings — referring to the ongoing coverage of her public life around the people she’s chosen to date.
- “I Forgot You Existed”
- “Cruel Summer”
- “Lover”
- “The Man”
- “The Archer”
- “I Think He Knows”
- “Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince”
- “Paper Rings”
- “Cornelia Street”
- “Death by A Thousand Cuts”
Bright, light and bubbly, “I Forgot You Existed” sounds like Swift’s final rejoinder to the darkness of the Reputationera. “I Forgot That You Existed” is an album opener with a purpose: to show she’s moved on, which she says in no uncertain terms. “I forgot that you existed and I thought that it would kill me, but it didn’t / And it was so nice, so...
Driving and synth-forward with co-production from Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent’s Annie Clark, “Cruel Summer” paints the picture of an emotional rollercoaster of a summer — new love and its uncertainties mashed up against the challenges facing pop stars in the public spotlight. “And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar, said, ‘I’m fine,’ bu...
As the album’s title track, “Lover” shows off Swift at the intersection of sing-song acoustic pop and folksy storytelling. In turns intimate and chipper — and topped off with a faux wedding vow as the bridge — Swift harkens back to the sweetness of “New Year’s Day,” amped up with newfound bliss and confidence. “Swear to be overdramatic and true to ...
Here’s an anthem for anyone who’s felt blocked by sexist double standards. Swift knows a thing or two about being treated differently in the music industry. As a woman in the public eye, she’s repeatedly stood up for herself against mistreatment by men, whether in the courtroomor through her music. In “The Man,” written with her frequent collaborat...
Released as a promotional single, “The Archer” shows a more introspective side of Swift over a skittering synth line. Coproduced with Jack Antonoff, it has some of the more 80s sensibility that their previous work together (like “Getaway Car” and “Dress”) has also showed off. “I cut off my nose just to spite my face,” she sighs intimately. “I hate ...
Over a snapping rhythm, Swift gets playful on “I Think He Knows.” “He got that boyish look that I like in a man,” she talk-sings with rapid precision: “He’s so obsessed with me, and boy, I understand.” There’s a refreshing self-awareness and sense of humor to this first-crush love song, which is laced with references to Nashville and descriptions o...
Since breaking out in her teens as a rising country star, Swift has been consistently associated with the hallmarks of the American high school experience: homecomings and football teams, proms and cliques. But in “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince,” she seems very ready to graduate from that scene. It’s one of her most layered songs on the ...
Then she kicks things up on “Paper Rings,” which is a toe-tapper from the get-go, filled with tambourine jingles and old-school background shouts. With the “uh-huhs” and the “that’s right’s” and the turned-up finishes to her line delivery, this is Swift’s let-down-your-hair song on Lover — a happy-go-lucky bit of rollicking fun. “Darling, you’re th...
Swift cut her teeth on storytelling, and that background shines on “Cornelia Street,” which alludes to a Manhattan neighborhood and the beginning of a love story. Her refrain — “I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends / I’d never walk Cornelia Street again” — packs a punch of relatability; some places just become too drenched in difficult memor...
“Death By a Thousand Cuts” is ostensibly a sad song, but it’s one of her prettier and more fast-paced Loversongs anyway, a sweet melody interspersed with a tinkling piano section that adds gravity to her melancholy lyrics. “You said it was a great love, one for the ages / But if the story’s over, why am I still writing pages?” she wonders at one po...
Aug 23, 2019 · Taylor Swift has released her seventh album "Lover" after much fanfare; we broke down all 18 tracks for their hidden allusions.
- Mary Elizabeth Andriotis
Aug 23, 2024 · So, what did Lover tell us about Taylor Swift in 2019? It’s obvious she hadn’t lost any of her independent spirit.
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Aug 26, 2019 · These 18 songs are odes to the things she loves most and knows best: her boyfriend and her mom, the West Village and the West End, and, always and forever on a Taylor Swift album, being in...
