History Music / Lover

** "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.

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

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# "Cruel Summer" (2:58)

** The narrator from "Cornelia Street" is so terrified about if her love interest ever walk away from her because she is afraid that her heartbreak would never mend:

** The narrator from "Cornelia Street" is so terrified about if her love interest ever walk her because she is afraid that her heartbreak would never mend:

* LoveHurts: Despite the high amount 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 relationship in "Cruel Summer" secret is the reason for the "cruel summer" the narrator experienced.

** "False God" is about making up (and implied that the narrator receive oral sex) after a fight with the narrator's English love interest.

* SillyLoveSongs: A lot of the album - if the song isn't about LoveHurts, is about the high and joy of love. This isn't surprising given that the album is based on her relationship with Joe Alwyn:
** "Cruel Summer" is a lot more angsty than most examples, but the song is about being deeply in love and keeping the relationship a secret is why the narrator is having a "cruel summer".
** "Lover" is about the joy of a long term stable relationship and how the narrator wants to envision and building their future together. The chorus is basically the narrator writing out her wedding vow without actually saying the word marriage or wedding.
** "I Think He Knows" is about the narrator being so infatuated with her love interest that she can't even forms words to articulate her feeling but "[she] think he knows" her feeling towards him.
** "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince" on the surface speaks about a high school romance and that the couple is fighting against the public who said that "she is a bad bad girl".
** "Paper Rings" details the relationship between the narrator and her love interest from just meeting, to being friends to being deeply in love to the point that she would marry him "in paper rings".
** "Cornelia Street" is a more angsty example, but it details a relationship deepens when the narrator moved to the aforementioned Cornelia Street and how terrified she would be if they ever broke up to the point that she "would never walk Cornelia Street again".

** The narrator of "All of the Girls You Loved Before" gushing about how much of a good person her love interest is and how all of the women her love interest encountered (including their mom and "all of the girls [they] loved before" helps making them into the person she fell in love with and told them that she wants to spend time forever with them.

** The relationship in "Cruel Summer" was one of the contributing reason for the "cruel summer" the narrator experienced.

** "Cruel Summer" is a lot more angsty than most examples, but the song is about being deeply in love in secret during a "cruel summer".

** "False God" is about making up (and implied that the narrator receive oral sex) after a fight the narrator's foreign love interest.

** "It's Nice To Have A Friend" is about a ChildhoodFriendsRomance and how the couple is still best friends to each other after they got married.

* SillyLoveSongs: A lot of the album, though "London Boy" and "Paper Rings" probably play this the straightest.

* BreakupSong: 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. There are few exceptions:
** "I Forgot that You Existed" is about the narrator's apathy towards her ex.
** "Death by a Thousand Cuts" is about the pain the narrator felt after a break up and how she is still madly in love with her ex to the point it is hurting her.

* BreakupSong: "Death by a Thousand Cuts"

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" 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.[[/note]] though that number is somewhat inflated by a number of sub-3 minute songs.

* ExcitedShowTitle: "Me!"

# "All of the Girls" (3:41) (Bonus Track)

* BreakoutCharacter: "All of the Girls" started out as a leak track. The extreme popularity of the leak track is presumably the reason why she released it as a bonus track.