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18 songs?18??
All ofthe clues and Easter eggs and theories leading up toLoverhave permanently damaged my psyche.
I am a shell of a human.
This album cycle has taken everything I have.
Just remember to breathe, because I havent in like, 20 hours, and someone out there should.
Harris tends to bring the petty out in Taylor, andthis song is petty as hell.
She sings, I forgot that you sent me a clear message, taught me some hard lessons.
Usually, Taylor drama like her music is coded and slithery and opaque.
Now, shes forgotten that he existed, and honestly?
Big takeaway:This song is perfect and is also very seesBlue Crushonce.
Theres also a New Years party pictured in the video.
Swift had a song offReputationcalled New Years Day, which has parallels to Lover.
In Lover, she sings, Ive loved you three summers now, honey, I want them all.
And considering shes still with Joe, both songs are probably about him.
Now, Taylor is addressing how those media narratives were coded in sexism and bias.
So, naturally, wefiguredThe Archer was the deepest, most vulnerable song on the album.
More on that soon.
Big takeaway:I am a pool of amorphous lesbian mush.
Pour me back in my container.
I Think He Knows
Another ongoing motif on this album is color.
Color was, arguably, the very first thing we knew about this album.
Taylor painted her Instagram pastel before the ME!
video dropped, and everythingLoverhas been dripping in millennial pinks, baby blues, indigos, and violets.
In I Think He Knows, and in many lyrics onLover, Swift returns to this palette.
Here, she sings about indigo eyes.
It is likely not the most important part of this minimalist bop, but its important to note.
Actually,Lovermay have more New York references than her New York album,1989.
Big takeaway:I actually moved away from New York City because I hated it and it smells weird.
How has Taylor been so consistently charmed by that dumpster island?
Sure, Swift was 19 when she recorded Crazier, but stay with us now.
Speaking to an earlier theme, Swift revisits a very vivid narrative in Miss Americana.
Well, you tell me what other friend of Taylors has ever turned into more.
We dont know because theres so much about her personal life that shes chosen not to reveal?
Big takeaway:This song sounds like theGleecover of Amy Winehouses Valerie.
And I love Glee.
Its emotional, and leaves her exposed.
A gutting tale of love lost.
Now hear this: Taylor oncerentedan apartment on Cornelia Street in Manhattan, 23 Cornelia Street.
Thats all the evidence Ive collected on why Cornelia Street is about losing Karlie Klosss love so far.
Big takeaway:Kaylor, maybe.
In May, Taylor toldEllenthatSomeone Greatwas her favorite movie shed seen in the last week.
That sneaky, Easter eggdropping monster.
Another narrative shes revisiting here: John Mayer?
She sings, If the storys over, why am I still writing pages?
Well always have our stories, and its good to look back on them with new perspective.
Big takeaway:StreamSomeone Greaton Netflix, cowards.
Big takeaway:Joe Alwyn is milk tea without the boba.
Soon Youll Get Better (feat.
Dixie Chicks)
Only listen to this song if you are in a very sound emotional space.
Soon Youll Get Better features the Dixie Chicks, acollaboration that Taylor teased in the ME!
music video, and is about her moms battle with cancer.
Its devastating and Swifts most naked song to date.
Big takeaway:Fuck cancer.
Protect Andrea Swift at all costs.
Now that Ive heard the whole album, I can say with complete certainty that her singles, ME!
But Taylors singles have historically paled in comparison to her album tracks.
Big takeaway:Gays have rights now.
Its very sad for me.
It feels like its been 40 years since the ME!
music video dropped, which was the most Easter eggheavy moment in theLoveralbum cycle.
If you feel like revisiting that K-hole,be my guest but dont expect to ever sleep again.
On Its Nice to Have a Friend, Taylor sings about a friendship turned more.
And last but certainly not least, my favorite lyric on all ofLover: Lost my gloves.
You give me one.
Wanna hang out?
Yes, sounds like fun.
THIS IS LITERALLY THE PLOT OFCAROL!!!!!
Taylor Swifts deep lesbian yearning for her friend Karlie Kloss maxes out on Its Nice to Have a Friend.
Oh, and more bi flag imagery: Pink sky up on the roof.
Big takeaway: Finally, confirmation that Karlie was the Therese in the relationship.
That video features Swift running from a pack of wolves.
On Daylight, Taylor sings, You ran with the wolves and refused to settle down.
Can we draw a parallel here?
Swift loves a callback, a clue, and almost never recycles a symbol.
Wolves just feel too specific to reference twice if theyre not related.
Big takeaway:One Direction is now, canonically, a pack of wolves.
