Taylor Swift - Lover Album

 The theme of Taylor Swift’s Lover is right there in the title. 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 love. It’s an exuberant celebration of the challenges of maintaining a relationship through seasons and across continents, of telling the truth and saying sorry. Swift has always mined her personal life for opaque fables of love and retribution; she memorializes a romance’s fleeting details, wraps them in bows, and ferries them to an audience eager to receive her gifts. She writes about a life that’s strengthened, not broken, by heartbreak. Lover is the suggestion that the right person, the right song, might lift heartbreak from your life, too.

 The concept is, as she claims early on, both “overdramatic and true.” Lover nods to 2017’s Reputation, but, in spirit, it’s the sequel to the synth-pop glitter of 1989. Produced mostly with ubiquitous pop whisperer Jack Antonoff, it’s full of low-lying synthesizer pulses and reverbed beats that can feel more like scaffolding than full songs. Sometimes it attempts to honor Swift’s entire artistic journey at once: The waltzing “Lover,” full of fiddle and fairytale weddings, harks back to the Old Taylor; “I Think He Knows” is a thumping electro-pop shout-out to Nashville’s Music Row. She uses the word “shade” twice, up from once on Reputation. She’s 29, but she still writes metaphors about prom dresses and homecoming queens. It’s bright and fun and occasionally cloying.

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TRACKLIST

1.I Forgot That You Existed

2.Cruel Summer

3.Lover

4.The Man

5.The Archer

6.I Think He Knows

7.Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince

8.Paper Rings

9.Cornelia Street

10.Death By A Thousand Cuts

11.London Boy

12.Soon You’ll Get Better (feat. The Chicks)

, The Chicks

13.False God

14.You Need To Calm Down

15.Afterglow

16.ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco)

, Brendon Urie, Panic! At The Disco

17.It’s Nice To Have A Friend

18.Daylight