History Music / Lover

Musically, the album is more similar to the upbeat SynthPop of ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'' than the DarkerAndEdgier ''Music/{{Reputation}}'' (though it lacks to contributions of Music/MaxMartin, who produced both). While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship, particularly her feelings for her long-term romantic partner, Creator/JoeAlwyn. Despite its relative optimism, it is generally slower and more reflective than her past albums, containing some of Swift's first explicitly political songs (most notably the pro-LGBTQ+ single "You Need To Calm Down). It's also her longest album at 18 tracks,[[note]]At least, when not counting the "Taylor's Version" reissues of her prior albums.[[/note]] though that number is somewhat inflated by a number of sub-3 minute songs.

Musically, the album is more similar to the upbeat SynthPop of ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'' than the DarkerAndEdgier ''Music/{{Reputation}}'' (though it lacks to contributions of Music/MaxMartin, who produced both). Despite its relative optimism, it is generally slower and more reflective than her past albums. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks,[[note]]At least, when not counting the "Taylor's Version" reissues of her prior albums.[[/note]] though that number is somewhat inflated by a number of sub-3 minute songs.

Musically, the album is much more similar to the upbeat SynthPop of ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'' than the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop-inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. Having said that, it has something of its own sound, being generally slower and more reflective than her past albums despite its relative optimism. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks.[[note]]At least, when not counting the "Taylor's Version" reissues of her albums released before this one.[[/note]]

The music video for "You Need to Calm Down" would win Video of the Year at the [[UsefulNotes/MTVVideoMusicAward The MTV Video Music Awards]] in 2019.

'''Tracklist:'''

# "Lover" (3:41)
# "The Man" (3:10)
# "The Archer" (3:31)

# "You Need to Calm Down" (2:51)

# "Me!" (featuring Brendon Urie of Music/PanicAtTheDisco) (3:13)

* ColorMotif: The color blue is mentioned surprisingly frequently in this album, being brought up in "Cruel Summer," "Lover," "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince," "Paper Rings," and "Afterglow."

Musically, the album is much more similar to the upbeat SynthPop of ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'' than the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop-inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks.[[note]]At least, when not counting the "Taylor's Version" reissues of her albums released before this one.[[/note]]

* MoodWhiplash: "Soon You'll Get Better" is perhaps the saddest song on the album and is sandwiched between "London Boy", a song about how much she loves a [[TitleDrop London boy]], and "False God". Even if one considers "False God" to be a song on the sadder song, immediately following ''it'' is "You Need to Calm Down", one of the most upbeat songs on the album.

Musically, the album is much more similar to the upbeat SynthPop of ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'' than the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop-inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks.

* AdultFear: "Soon You'll Get Better" is about the fear and uncertainty that comes with a family member -- specifically a parent -- suffering from a serious, possible fatal illness.

-->And now I love [[SpotOfTea high tea]], stories from Uni, and the West End\\

* HypocrisyNod: "The Archer" has a lot of this. Swift admits her immaturity, tendency to playing the victim, tendency to seek feud as well as her past hypocrisy about denying them while fully capable of inflicting emotional pain on other people. She herself acknowledge that this is the most honest, emotional, vulnerable, and personal track in this album.

Musically, the album is much more similar to the upbeat SynthPop of ''Music/{{1989}}'' than the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop-inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks.

Musically the album is much more similar to the SynthPop ''1989'' than to the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks. The music video for "You Need to Calm Down" would win Video of the Year at the [[UsefulNotes/MTVVideoMusicAward The MTV Video Music Awards]] in 2019.

Musically the album is much more similar to the SynthPop ''1989'' than to the DarkerAndEdgier, more hip-hop inspired ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. While not quite a ConceptAlbum, it explores themes of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks.

''Lover'' is American singer and songwriter Music/TaylorSwift's seventh studio album that was released August 23rd, 2019. It is her first album on her new record label, Creator/RepublicRecords which is a subsidiary of Creator/UniversalMusicGroup.

!!Tracklist:

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 themes consist of love and friendship. It's also her longest album at 18 tracks.

* CallBack: The final track, "Daylight," has one to her fourth album, ''Music/Red2012'', 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'', [[CaptainObvious red]] for ''Music/Red2012'', blue for ''1989'', black for ''{{Music/reputation}}'', and pink for ''Lover''. Taylor later confirmed on her Tumblr that this was intentional.

* TakeThat: The entirety of "You Need To Calm Down," where she makes fun of homophobes and internet trolls.

->''I wanna be defined by the things that I love. Not the things that I hate. Not the things that I'm afraid of--I'm afraid of... or the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I--I just think that... you are what you ''love''.''
-->--Track 18, "Daylight"

'''Tracklist:'''

[[caption-width-right:350:''It's a cruel summer with you'']]

-->-- Track 3, "Lover"

Preceded by ''Music/{{reputation}}'', succeeded by ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}''.
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With every guitar string scar on my hand \\
I take this magnetic force of a man, \\

Every night that summer just to seal my fate (Oh)

* SillyLoveSongs: A lot of the album, though "London Boy" probably plays this the straightest.

* TakeThat: The entirety of "You Need To Calm Down" she makes fun of homophobes and internet trolls.

* DrowningMySorrows: She attempts it after a break-up in "Death By A Thousand Cuts," with little success.

* LoveIsADrug: Mentioned in "Death By A Thousand Cuts":

Preceded by ''Music/{{reputation}}, succeeded by ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}''.

[[caption-width-right:350:It's a cruel summer with you]]

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 themes consist of love and friendship.

It's also her longest album at 18 tracks: