History Music / Lover

* CallBack: The final track, "Daylight," has one to her fourth album, ''Red'', specifically the line from the title track, "Loving him was red."

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The music video for "Lover" is set in a house with seven rooms, each with its own color. Fans immediately connected each color with one of Taylor's seven albums -- green for ''Taylor Swift'', gold for ''Fearless'', purple for ''Speak Now'', red for... er, ''[[CaptainObvious Red]]'', blue for ''1989'', black for ''{{Music/reputation}}'', and pink for ''Lover''. Taylor later confirmed on her Tumblr that this was intentional.

* SelfBackingVocalist: She sings with herself on "The Man," "I Think He Knows," and "You Need To Calm Down."

* SelfBackingVocalist:
** "The Man" uses her echoing vocals.
** The chorus of "oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh!" in "You Need To Calm Down."

* MotorMouth: She says some lines of "You Need to Calm Down" ''really fast''.

* ContinuityCavalcade: Since it was the lead single, the video for "ME!" is jampacked with references to both her older works, her personal life, and this album.
* ContinuityNod: The video for "The Man" shows a wall with "Fearless," "Speak Now," "Red," "1989," and "Reputation" graffiti on it, referencing the titles of her previous albums.

* MotorMouth: She says some verses of "You Need to Calm Down" ''really fast''.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: "The Archer" says, "all of my enemies started out friends."

-->I thought love would be burning red,\\

* ContinuityNod: The video for "The Man" shows a wall with "Speak," "Red," and "Reputation" graffiti on it, referencing the titles of her previous albums.

* SelfBackingVocalist: The chorus of "oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh!" in "You Need To Calm Down."

* DoubleStandard: "The Man" is all about how differently she would be treated if she were, well, a man. She hypothesizes that she gets seen as " a bitch not a baller" because of the higher standards to which women celebrities are held.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: "It's Nice to Have a Friend" shows the progression of the narrator and her childhood best friend becoming a couple and eventually getting married.

* SequelSong: Lyrically, "Daylight" shows the narrator's CharacterDevelopment since the "Red" era, featuring direct quotes from the album's ArcWords. ("I once believed love would be ''burning red,'' but it's golden like daylight.") In terms of sound and theme, many fans have it pinned down as the spiritual successor to the "1989" track "Clean," which is the album's final track like "Daylight."

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Musically the album is much more similar to the SynthPop ''1989'' rather than the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, its theme consist of love and friendship.

!!Tropes appearing in ''Lover'' include:

* InsecureLoveInterest: "Cruel Summer," "The Archer," and "Cornelia Street" all hint that the narrator is insecure and scared her lover will leave her.

* IResembleThatRemark: The music video for "Me!" starts with Urie and Swift getting into an argument, culminating with Swift exclaiming "''Je suis calme!''" (I am calm).

* ThePowerOfApathy: “I Forgot That You Existed” is about how she was mad at a former friend at first but is now at a place where apathy is what she feels.