{"id":814,"date":"2020-08-23T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=814"},"modified":"2026-10-18T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:37:55","slug":"lover-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/lover-album\/lover-songs\/lover-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Lover (Song)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ufeff<\/span>\u201cLover\u201d is the third track and title song on Taylor\u2019s seventh studio album, Lover<\/a><\/em> (2019). Released on August 16, 2019, it was written solely by Taylor. The romantic ballad imagines the intimacy of building a life together, from creating shared traditions to making a home, culminating in a bridge that feels like a set of wedding vows written in Taylor\u2019s own words.\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\tWith its wedding-vow-inspired lyrics and dreamy waltz rhythm, \u201cLover\u201d has become a fan-favorite choice for couples\u2019 first dance at their weddings. Taylor even released a \u201cFirst Dance Remix\u201d in November 2019, featuring an orchestral arrangement that makes the song sound as if it belongs on a wedding dance floor.\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\tThis article is about the song. For the album, see Lover\u00a0(2019)<\/a>.<\/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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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor began working on her seventh studio album, Lover<\/a><\/em>, during a week in New York in July 2018, while still on the \u201creputation Stadium Tour<\/a>.\u201d The album\u2019s main recording sessions began after the tour ended that November, marking a new creative chapter following the darker, more guarded approach of reputation<\/a><\/em> (2017). In a 2019 interview with Vogue<\/em>, Taylor described the new record as a \u201cnew beginning\u201d and a \u201clove letter to love, in all of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, wonderful glory,\u201d explaining that she had written from an \u201copen, free, romantic, whimsical place.\u201d\n

\nUnlike most of the album, \u201cLover\u201d was written entirely by Taylor, making it one of only three self-written tracks on the record, alongside \u201cCornelia Street<\/a>\u201d and \u201cDaylight<\/a>.\u201d As she told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2019, the song came to her late one night at her Nashville apartment:\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\u00abThis song is really special to me because I wrote it alone when I couldn\u2019t sleep one night in my Nashville apartment. I just wandered over to the piano, I had this melody that was keeping me awake, I couldn\u2019t really get past it, and it ended up being the chorus melody for \u2018Lover.\u2019\u00bb\n\n\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 later recalled that the chorus came together almost immediately, while she spent longer working on the bridge, which she wanted to develop into a more detailed, almost fairytale-like passage. She recorded a voice memo of the song and sent it to longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, who was struck by how fully formed it was. He later praised how completely she had written the song herself, noting that she had \u201cwrote every stitch of this song\u201d before bringing it to him the following day.\n

\nTaylor and Jack worked on the final recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, alongside recording engineer Laura Sisk. According to Jack, the session took around six hours, with the pair building the arrangement around the original piano-led song. It ultimately became the title track of the album, which Taylor explained had originally been called Daylight<\/em> in her mind for several months. Once she wrote \u201cLover,\u201d however, she realised it better captured the record\u2019s overall mood and could encompass its different forms of love.\n

\n\u201cLover\u201d was released through Republic Records<\/a> on August 16, 2019, as the album\u2019s third single, one week before the full record arrived on August 23. A lyric video was released alongside the song, followed by its official music video on August 22, co-directed by Taylor and Drew Kirsch. Set inside a colourful snow globe, the video also tucked in clues to other songs on the album: a board-game box displays the phrase \u201cDevils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes,\u201d<\/em> later heard in \u201cCruel Summer<\/a>,\u201d while a Scrabble board spells out \u201cAfterglow<\/a>,\u201d teasing another track before its release.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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