Lover Diary
Lover (Deluxe Edition) | 2019
The Lover Diary is a set of four booklets included in the special editions of Taylor’s seventh studio album, Lover (2019). It features reproductions of Taylor’s handwritten journals spanning her life, including entries from her teenage years before she rose to fame.
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Background and Release
Taylor released Lover on August 23, 2019. Staying true to her commitment to physical albums, she offered fans four special-edition CD versions, each paired with a booklet showcasing a curated selection of her handwritten journal entries. Spanning ages 13 to 27, these pages give fans an intimate glimpse into her thoughts, dreams, and creative process throughout her journey from teenager to global superstar.
Content
These diary pages offer one of the most intimate glimpses into Taylor’s life, revealing the person, artist, and powerhouse she had become by 2019 — and the vision she had carried all along. During her “Lover’s Lounge” livestream in August 2019, Taylor herself opened up about the “Lover Diary,” giving fans a rare peek behind the curtain:
«I went through my old diaries, which was a wild trip down memory lane, let me just tell you. And I found so many diary entries that I thought may be relevant to your interests. And I started writing in diaries when I was 13. [...] Metaphorically speaking I have been sharing my diaries with you for years, so I figured why not just do it for real? And just take the symbolism out of it.»
For any attentive reader of Taylor’s work, the “Lover Diary” offers a carefully curated window into her real-time thoughts on an array of issues, people, ideas, and the many squabbles and triumphs that have shaped her life as a musician and celebrity. “I frequently and drastically changed my opinions on love, friends, confidence and trust,” she writes in the introduction, before letting the pages themselves illustrate that evolution.
Across the four unique editions, Taylor weaves a fragmented but intimate narrative of her rise in the industry: label meetings as a teenager evolve into radio play, record sales, Grammy Awards, and the MET Gala. These milestone moments are interspersed with mundane personal updates, lyric drafts, and other handwritten marginalia, blending the monumental with the everyday.
Across the four unique editions, Taylor weaves a fragmented but intimate narrative of her rise in the industry: label meetings as a teenager evolve into radio play, record sales, Grammy Awards, and the MET Gala. These milestone moments are interspersed with mundane personal updates, lyric drafts, and other handwritten marginalia, blending the monumental with the everyday.
The complete “Lover Diary” can be downloaded via the links in the Reddit thread here. A big Thank You to Reddit user u/tiramisucasa for providing the scans!
Taylor Reads Her Old Diaries
General Information
| Author | Taylor Swift |
|---|---|
| Associated Era | Lover Era |
| Associated Album | Lover |
| Released | August 23, 2019 |
| Written | 2003-2017 |
| Pages | 120 (30 per edition) |
"Lover Diary" Covers
