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Lover (Music)
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Lover is American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, released August 23rd, 2019. It was her first album with the record label Republic Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.Musically, the album is more similar to the upbeat Synth-Pop of 1989 than the Darker and Edgier reputation (though it lacks to contributions of Max Martin, who produced both). While not quite a Concept Album, it explores themes of love and friendship, particularly her feelings for her long-term romantic partner, Joe Alwyn. 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" and the glass-ceiling critique "The Man"). It's also her longest album at 18 tracks,note At least, when not counting the "Taylor's Version" reissues of her prior albums. though that number is somewhat inflated by a number of sub-3-minute songs.The album was meant to be accompanied with "Lover Fest", a touring quasi-festival featuring Swift and her favorite artists. The COVID-19 Pandemic ended that and cut short the promotion of Lover, forcing Swift to pivot into a new era of her career. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
| Lover (Music) / int_108c268e | comment |
Hotter and Sexier: Both “Cruel Summer� and “False God� highly imply being on the receiving end of oral sex which is more explicit than anything in any of her other work. | |
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Love Is a Drug | |
| Lover (Music) / int_1212a1c0 | comment |
Love Is a Drug: Mentioned in "Death by a Thousand Cuts": | |
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Ode to Apathy | |
| Lover (Music) / int_1a9785d9 | comment |
Ode to Apathy: In "I Forgot That You Existed," she celebrates her indifference towards a former friend who's hurt her. For a long time, she was mad at them and upset about everything they did but now, she feels peaceful and nice. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Idris Elba does the spoken word segment on "London Boy". | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_1c8e096e | type |
Childhood Friend Romance | |
| Lover (Music) / int_1c8e096e | comment |
"It's Nice To Have A Friend" is about a Childhood Friend Romance and how the couple is still best friends to each other after they got married. | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_1e0c10c5 | type |
Laugh of Love | |
| Lover (Music) / int_1e0c10c5 | comment |
Laugh of Love: She laughs happily at the beginning of "London Boy." | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_23b0d78 | type |
Title Track | |
| Lover (Music) / int_23b0d78 | comment |
Title Track: Track #3 is also called "Lover." | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_25f33d8 | type |
Sick Episode | |
| Lover (Music) / int_25f33d8 | comment |
Sick Episode: "Soon You'll Get Better" is about a close relative being sick and the singer hopes desperately for them to get better. | |
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"Spread Wings" Frame Shot | |
| Lover (Music) / int_26206ed7 | comment |
"Spread Wings" Frame Shot: Taylor Swift commissioned Kelsey Montague to create a mural of butterfly wings to pose in front of to promote her "ME!" music video. | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_2677b1dc | type |
Door Slam of Rage | |
| Lover (Music) / int_2677b1dc | comment |
Door Slam of Rage: Taylor's character and her love interest played by Brendon Urie have an argument in the music video for "ME!" which ends when Taylor walks out of the apartment and slams the door for good measure. | |
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Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest | |
| Lover (Music) / int_2bbcd1c2 | comment |
Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Inverted in "Lover": | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_2bf993ad | type |
Secret Relationship | |
| Lover (Music) / int_2bf993ad | comment |
Secret Relationship: "Cruel Summer": | |
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Gratuitous French | |
| Lover (Music) / int_34f8042a | comment |
Gratuitous French: The music video for "ME!" begins with her and Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco having an argument in French for no real reason except that it sounds more dramatic. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
| Lover (Music) / int_361a1d26 | comment |
Anguished Declaration of Love: "Cruel Summer" has the lyric, "For whatever it's worth, I love you. Ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?" | |
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Love Hurts | |
| Lover (Music) / int_424d15ad | comment |
Love Hurts: Despite the high number of love songs in this album, this trope pops up a couple of times to show how deeply in love and filled with anxiety the narrator is: The pressure to keep her relationship in "Cruel Summer" secret is what makes the summer so "cruel". The narrator from "Cornelia Street" is terrified about if her love interest ever walk away from her because she is afraid that her heartbreak would never mend: "Death By A Thousand Cuts" has the narrator reeling from the aftermath of a break up that she is clearly not over. "False God" is about making up after a fight with the narrator's English love interest. "Afterglow" is about the narrator apologizing to her love interest after a particularly bad fight and how she needs reassurance that they still loves her even with her flaws. | |
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Album Closure | |
| Lover (Music) / int_47b97b31 | comment |
Album Closure: The final track is "Daylight," a slow, introspective song where Swift explicitly addresses all that she's learned. It ends with a monologue that delivers the album's thesis statement: "You are what you love." | |
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MadLibsCatchPhrase | |
| Lover (Music) / int_485011b | comment |
Mad Libs Catch Phrase: The "spelling is fun!" line from "ME!" tended to be changed for live performances depending on the context (when it opened the Billboard Music Awards it became "Vegas is fun!", and "Finales are fun!" when performed on the season finale of The Voice). | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_4a0cd65f | type |
WomanChild | |
| Lover (Music) / int_4a0cd65f | comment |
Womanchild: "The Archer": | |
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Be Yourself | |
| Lover (Music) / int_4ae72307 | comment |
Be Yourself: The message of both "You Need to Calm Down" and "ME!". | |
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Umbrella of Togetherness | |
| Lover (Music) / int_51041191 | comment |
Umbrella of Togetherness: The music video for "ME!" has a scene where she's dancing in strange colourful thick rain and her Love Interest played by Brandon Urie comes to her with an umbrella which they share and dance off under. They share an umbrella in the live version as well. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
| Lover (Music) / int_51a3ba7 | comment |
We Used to Be Friends: "The Archer" says, "all of my enemies started out friends." "I Forgot That You Existed" is about getting over hurt feelings about a former friend. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
| Lover (Music) / int_52488c54 | comment |
Drowning My Sorrows: She attempts it after a break-up in "Death by a Thousand Cuts," with little success. | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
| Lover (Music) / int_535865be | comment |
I Resemble That Remark!: The music video for "Me!" starts with Urie and Swift getting into an argument, culminating with Swift exclaiming "Je suis calme!" (I am calm). | |
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"I Am Great!" Song | |
| Lover (Music) / int_5924ccb2 | comment |
"I Am Great!" Song: "I Think He Knows": "Me!" can basically be summed up as, "I know I can be a lot, but I'm amazing, and anyone would be lucky to have me." | |
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Love Is Like Religion | |
| Lover (Music) / int_5acef2e9 | comment |
Love Is Like Religion: In "False God," she pledges religious devotion to her paramour, even if it turns out to be a "false god". | |
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It's All My Fault | |
| Lover (Music) / int_5ad80bf8 | comment |
It's All My Fault: "Afterglow" is her apology after having a fight with someone she loves and hurting them. | |
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Record Producer | |
| Lover (Music) / int_6053dc28 | comment |
Record Producer: Lover was the first of Swift's albums to be entirely co-produced by her. It also marked the departure of Max Martin from her oeuvre after his contributions to many of her biggest hits from the prior three albums; instead, the majority of the songs were co-produced with Jack Antonoff, with a few other contributions from Joel Little and Louis Bell. | |
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| Lover (Music) / int_6298c177 | type |
Sequel Song | |
| Lover (Music) / int_6298c177 | comment |
Sequel Song: Lyrically, "Daylight" shows the narrator's Character Development since the "Red" era, specifically featuring Arc Words from its title track. ("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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The Power of Apathy | |
| Lover (Music) / int_62ec2103 | comment |
"I Forgot That You Existed" is about getting over hurt feelings about a former friend. | |
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Changed for the Video | |
| Lover (Music) / int_691669c4 | comment |
Changed for the Video: Inverted. The line "Hey kids. Spelling is fun!" was removed from "ME!" shortly before the album's release, possibly because of the negative reception to the line in the music video. | |
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The Power of Love | |
| Lover (Music) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: The main theme of the album. Swift even said it's a love letter to love itself. | |
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Foreign Culture Fetish | |
| Lover (Music) / int_6f214508 | comment |
Foreign Culture Fetish: In "London Boy," after falling in love with the titular boy, the narrator loves everything English. | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Lover (Music) / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: 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 Red, blue for 1989, black for reputation, and pink for Lover. Taylor later confirmed on her Tumblr that this was intentional. | |
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Continuity Cavalcade | |
| Lover (Music) / int_813e694d | comment |
Continuity Cavalcade: 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. 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. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
| Lover (Music) / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Motor Mouth: She says some lines of "I Think He Knows" and "You Need to Calm Down" really fast. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
| Lover (Music) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: "Cruel Summer": Discussed and averted in "Death by a Thousand Cuts." | |
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Gay Aesop | |
| Lover (Music) / int_84b1a036 | comment |
Gay Aesop: The second verse and pre-chorus of "You Need To Calm Down" call out homophobes; the video for the song features many LGBT celebrities and contains anti-homophobia/pro-Gay Pride imagery throughout. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
| Lover (Music) / int_8c00118f | comment |
Spoken Word in Music: The album ends with a recording of Taylor speaking, ending with, "You are what you love." | |
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Prayer Is a Last Resort | |
| Lover (Music) / int_8dea4592 | comment |
Prayer Is a Last Resort: "Soon You'll Get Better," which is about the narrator's parent suffering a serious illness. | |
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Revisiting the Roots | |
| Lover (Music) / int_8eb3d48f | comment |
Revisiting the Roots: "Soon You'll Get Better" is her first country-inspired song since Red. Bonus points for including Dixie Chicks as guest musicians. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
| Lover (Music) / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: The beginning of "ME!"'s video shows a snake exploding into butterflies. Snakes were a symbol of Taylor's more defensive, edgy reputation, and the video is showing that that mood and persona will not be part of the new album, only exacerbated by the pastel fantasy visuals of the video and brightness of the song. | |
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Hypocrisy Nod | |
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"Combat, I'm ready for combat / I say I don't want that, but what if I do?" | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: A lot of the album - if the song isn't about Love Hurts, is about the highs and joy of love. This isn't surprising given that the album is based on her relationship with Joe Alwyn: "Cruel Summer" is about being deeply in love in a relationship that has to be kept secret. "Lover" is about the joy of a long-term stable relationship and how the narrator wants to envision and build their future together. The chorus is basically a wedding vow. "I Think He Knows" is about the narrator being so infatuated with her love interest that she can't even form the words to articulate her feelings but she "think he knows" her feeling towards him. "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince" on the surface speaks about a high school romance. "London Boy" is about a girl who is very much American, but when she falls in love with a "London boy" she also begins to like English culture just as much. "Paper Rings" details falling so deeply in love to the point that she would marry her partner "with paper rings". "Cornelia Street" details how her relationship deepened when the narrator moved in with her apartment and how terrified she would be if they ever broke up to the point that she "would never walk Cornelia Street again". "It's Nice To Have A Friend" is about a Childhood Friend Romance and how the couple is still best friends to each other after they got married. "Daylight" is about ignoring the past and looking to the future with her love interest and how she will step in to her future with her love. The narrator of "All of the Girls You Loved Before" gushes about how much of a good person her love interest is and how all of the women her love interest has encountered (including their mom and "all of the girls [they] loved before") helps made them into the person she fell in love with. | |
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Insecure Love Interest | |
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Insecure Love Interest: "Cruel Summer," "The Archer," "Cornelia Street," and "Afterglow" all hint that the narrator is insecure and scared her lover will leave her. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: "Afterglow" is about her feeling massive guilt after having a fight with someone she loves and hurting them. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "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 London boy, and "False God". Even if one considers "False God" to be a song on the sadder side, immediately following it is "You Need to Calm Down", one of the most upbeat songs on the album. | |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex | |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex: Hinted at in "The Archer," where she asks, "Who could ever leave me, darling? But who could stay?" | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: Another album that lack these types of songs, owing to the fact that the album primary focus on the relationship with her then-boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The one exception is "Death by a Thousand Cuts" is about the pain the narrator felt after a break up (which Swift confessed she wrote after watching a romcom rather than based on a specific experience). | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The entirety of "You Need to Calm Down," where she makes fun of homophobes and internet trolls. | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard: "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. | |
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Color Motif | |
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Color Motif: The color blue is mentioned frequently in this album, being brought up in "Cruel Summer," "Lover," "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince," "Paper Rings," and "Afterglow." | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: "ME!" has this bit of Self-Deprecation: | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Bitch", the saltiest word on the album, is used twice on "The Man". | |
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Everything's Better with Sparkles | |
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Everything's Better with Sparkles: In "Paper Rings," she comments: | |
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Turn to Religion | |
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Turn to Religion: A line from "Soon You'll Get Better": | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: To Drake in "I Forgot That You Existed". | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: "The Archer" has a lot of this: "Combat, I'm ready for combat / I say I don't want that, but what if I do?" "I never grew up, it's getting so old." "And I cut off my nose just to spite my face." | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
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Slut-Shaming: "The Man" points out that women celebrities are held to higher standards about their love lives than men celebrities (and specifically calls out Leonardo DiCaprio as an example). | |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts | |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts: She compares her break-up to this in "Death by a Thousand Cuts." | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Much more upbeat and colorful than reputation. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: "Cruel Summer" was so beloved by fans and the general publics even years after the album's release that it was finally released as a single in June 2023, nearly 4 years after the album's release. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: "Cruel Summer": | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: The third track is literally called "Lover," so the word is all over the place. "Me!" also uses it: | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "The Man" is a bitter song about Double Standard to an airy tune. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "False God" has some pretty heavy subtext to this effect. | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: One of the crimes of the subject of "I Forgot That You Existed" is treating the singer's problems like a show, signified by this trope: | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: "Soon You'll Get Better," a song about dealing with a loved one's serious illness. She based it on her experience of her mother's battle with cancer. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: She harmonizes with herself on "The Man," "I Think He Knows," "London Boy," and "You Need To Calm Down." | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: It was rumored that the video for "You Need To Calm Down" would feature Taylor and Katy Perry, dressed as a burger and French fries, kissing. Taylor said it was false, and she didn’t lie—the two didn't kiss. | |
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Romantic Rain | |
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Romantic Rain: The "ME!" video ends with Taylor and her love interest dancing in a (rainbow) rainstorm. | |
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