{"id":1017,"date":"2020-08-23T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=1017"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:44:28","slug":"paper-rings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/lover-album\/lover-songs\/paper-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cPaper Rings\u201d is the eighth track on Taylor\u2019s seventh studio album, Lover<\/a><\/em> (2019). Released on August 23, 2019, it was written and produced by Taylor and Jack Antonoff. The upbeat pop-rock song celebrates a love that matters more than material possessions or traditional symbols of commitment. Looking back on the story of their relationship, Taylor declares that she wants to spend her life with her partner, even if it means exchanging expensive diamond rings for handmade paper ones.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cPaper Rings\u201d may have declared that a homemade ring was all Taylor needed, but her own love story eventually came with a rather more extravagant accessory. Years later, her engagement to Travis Kelce brought a rather more extravagant piece of jewellery into the picture: a diamond engagement ring reportedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The contrast between the song\u2019s humble paper rings and her spectacular engagement ring makes for a fun full-circle moment.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor began working on Lover <\/em>during a week in New York in July 2018 while still on the \u201creputation Stadium Tour<\/a>,\u201d before the album\u2019s main recording sessions began after the tour concluded that November. “Paper Rings” emerged during the making of an album Taylor approached from a markedly different creative place than its predecessor, reputation <\/a><\/em>(2017). In an interview with Vogue <\/em>in 2019, she described Lover <\/em>as a \u201cnew beginning\u201d and a \u201clove letter to love, in all of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, wonderful glory,\u201d while recalling that she wrote from an \u201copen, free, romantic, whimsical place.\u201d\n

\nWritten and produced by Taylor and Jack Antonoff, \u201cPaper Rings\u201d was one of several songs created through their close creative partnership on Lover<\/em>. Taylor explained during the iHeartRadio<\/em> Lover Secret Session<\/a><\/em> in August 2019 that she and Jack had approached the track by imagining themselves as a wedding band playing at a reception in the late 1970s. She described this as part of the creative template for some of the album\u2019s songs, drawing inspiration from the kind of love songs a newly married couple might request:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\u00abPart of the template for what I wanted to do with some of the songs [on Lover<\/i>] was imagining that I was in a wedding band at a reception, playing the love songs that the bride and groom wanted to hear in 1978 or something. [...] The bridge was inspired by some fun punk girl groups, in the way they used to sing and shout in a really unapologetic way. I made this one with Jack [Antonoff], and you can hear him counting in the chorus\u2014like that\u2019s how much we wanted to sound like a wedding band. It\u2019s a really fun one, I really like this one.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor planted an early Easter egg for \u201cPaper Rings\u201d in the lyric video for Lover<\/em>\u2019s lead single, \u201cME!<\/a>.\u201d Released in April 2019, the video features Taylor wearing a paper ring while writing lyrics on a sheet of paper, months before fans could hear the song itself. \u201cPaper Rings\u201d was released on August 23, 2019, as the eighth track on Lover<\/em>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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