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  • Summary: The seventh full-length studio release for the country pop artist features a guest appearances from the Dixie Chicks and Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco.
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[Intro: Taylor Swift] I promise that you'll never find another like me [Verse 1: Taylor Swift] I know that I'm a handful, baby, uh I know I never... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Aug 26, 2019
    91
    As always, Lover is an album Swift made for her fans. But it also feels like a record she made for herself, unburdened by external expectations and her own past.
  2. Sep 3, 2019
    80
    Lover is a fabulous record, full of super-fun standout pop hits that make your heart burst. It oozes with Swift’s much more palatable upbeat sass. She’s in love and also thinking about different kinds of love.
  3. Aug 26, 2019
    75
    The maturation through Taylor Swift’s career has also shown her react to personal change in real time. ... Maturity for Taylor Swift means shrugging off what isn’t worth a fight, looking inward rather than blaming others, and being able to admit when you were wrong.
  4. Sep 3, 2019
    70
    Ultimately, Lover is overstuffed and meandering, but serves as a positive reprieve from her past struggles in the public eye, and represents an artist at the peak of her creativity, power, and—one hopes—continued romantic bliss.
  5. Aug 26, 2019
    70
    Ultimately, the album’s highlights are those songs where the voice and sentiment we hear is truly her own, the enthralling, stirring, emotion- manipulating voice that’s threaded its way through every album since her 2006 debut, not the voice that leans too close to what the pop music machine demands.
  6. Aug 27, 2019
    58
    Even the bright spots in the album’s composition—the off-beat piano cascades in “Death By A Thousand Cuts” and the pulsating synth of “Cruel Summer” (thank you, St. Vincent) are particular standouts—are overshadowed by the musical anticlimax on most tracks, especially on “The Archer.”

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  1. Aug 31, 2019
    10
    I love it so much
  2. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Álbum extremamente COESO! Melhor album do ano liricamente! AOTY sem duvidas!
  3. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    This is simply the album of the year, the productions are exceptional. Swift is an amazing songwriter, the lyrics are so good. Great work!
  4. Aug 31, 2019
    10
    Wanna heal your soul? Just buy this masterpiece named Lover by Queen Taylor Swift.
  5. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This album will be remembered as such a classic 10’s album, i’m calling it. With songs like Lover, Paper Rings, Cruel Summer and London Boy,This album will be remembered as such a classic 10’s album, i’m calling it. With songs like Lover, Paper Rings, Cruel Summer and London Boy, it will be loved by so many ages over several generations. Expand
  6. Dec 5, 2020
    10
    More profound than the pink cover lead you to think, this album touches from pure pop to jazz to country, all while exploring the shades ofMore profound than the pink cover lead you to think, this album touches from pure pop to jazz to country, all while exploring the shades of love. Beautiful. Expand
  7. Aug 31, 2019
    0
    It was such a radical change from reputation to lover that I ended up completely displeasing

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