• Record Label: Republic
  • Release Date: Aug 23, 2019
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  1. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    Taylor Swift spreads her wings in this new piece. The production is superb, the lyrical content is excellent. She tackles subject such as sexism, heartbreak, love, and fear of losing a lover. I rate it a 10 because every track is great. There are no fillers and the sounds are diverse. No one track sounds the same.
  2. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    I love this album so much, because it evokes me at the beginning of my adolescence with very good and catchy sounds, in addition to a very heartbreaking lyrics.
    This album is simply successful.
  3. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    An excellent album. Impeccable lyrics, like always. Amazing how Taylor can put her emotions into music! One of the best albums of his career. Deserves AOTY
  4. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    the production is very solid the vocals is so soothing yet the storyline is so magical i love you taylor thank you for this album
  5. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    An artist that keeps challenging herself and keeps offering quality. An outstanding talent that must be appreciated.
  6. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    simply perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect perfect yes yes yes lover hahahhahahah
  7. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is her best album yet! She proved everybody that she can WRITE, she can SING, and she can OWN HER WORK. This is her most personal album to date Expand
  8. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    An incredible blend of Taylor’s songwriting ability. Within an hour you want to dance, cry and call your mom. An album that makes you feel nostalgic for the past and hopeful for the future, and excitied about the prospects of finding your very own Lover
  9. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El Álbum es variado, más no repetitivo, representa y contiene sonidos para los diversos estados de ánimo del ser humano, aparte de tener una composición hermosa. Expand
  10. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    Possibly the best album of her career and definitely the best album of the year. Was pleasantly surprised.
  11. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    She has definitely grown into a mature, cohesive artist from reputation. This album proves that she can be as colorful and fun from the dark and anguish reputation album concept. Her songwriting is something else. Her stories & feelings are well written and well put out on this album. I'm glad I listened to it on the first release (Re: The last time, when reputation was released, I didn'tShe has definitely grown into a mature, cohesive artist from reputation. This album proves that she can be as colorful and fun from the dark and anguish reputation album concept. Her songwriting is something else. Her stories & feelings are well written and well put out on this album. I'm glad I listened to it on the first release (Re: The last time, when reputation was released, I didn't liked it on the first listen) because I think it is one of the most dedicated & sweetest pop albums to ever come out this millenium. Lover, I think is too short for a Swiftie like me but still, this is Taylor Swift's most old and new (the transition from Country to Pop) Taylor Swift album since 1989. It's a gift for hopeless romantics, singles & most importantly, lovers. My top tracks: False Gid, The Man, Cornelia Street, The Archer, I Forgot That You Existed, Death By A Thousand Cuts. Expand
  12. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    One of her best albums, full of sad and happy songs. I’m glad she is trying new tunes and melodies and her vocals have developed a lot. Im also glad she decided to embrace the streaming department. She seems to be doing great
  13. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A perfect pop album. A love letter to love itself. It talks about many important topics like sexism in industry, how politics is degrading American values. A powerful album. Expand
  14. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    At first I though Lover would be a bad album of Taylor Swift because of the song ME!. But when I fuly listened to it yesterday, I realized that I was totally wrong. Best album ever
  15. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Amazing. Lyrically, this is Swift at some of her finest. She sounds fully matured here, but loses none of what made her youthful tunes so entrancing and relatable. It's a pop masterpiece.
  16. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Her best work yet. Perfect production in all parts and the writing is infallible.
  17. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Love this album, every song, not able to chose my fav because all of them are. Taylor Swift is brilliant❤️
  18. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    not a fan of pop but this album is perfection. each tracks tells you a good story which is taylor known for. Best album in 2019 so far. good job miss swift!
  19. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    you've made us very proud my girl. I think this album will win the album of the year
  20. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    She's done it again! While I absolutely loved Reputation and her BDE on it I missed her speak now/1989 side in music. This album is just that and even better. Not a bad song on it. And "The Man"?? BDE AND BAD BTCH ENERGY! Her mind!
  21. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Cruel Summer, Lover, I Think He Knows, Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince, Paper Rings, Cornelia Street, London Boy, False God, You Need To Calm Down and Daylight are masterpieces. Expand
  22. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This album is everything! Well produced and well written! As always expected from Taylor Swift!
  23. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The lyrics, the melodies, the production, the vocals, the classic clever wit of Taylor Swift. This is everything you want in an album. Incredible. Expand
  24. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Best album 4ever.Luv u Taylor.This is really great.Go ahead, i support you !
  25. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Probably the best album ever ! meticulous rhymes, melancholic melodies, catchy rhythms, self written songs!
    participation of Jack Antonoff, Dixie Chicks, Brendon Urie from Panic at the Disco!
  26. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Once again Swift reconstructs pop sound for a spectacular result. The instrumentation really makes this album, alongside Swift's extraordinary songwriting skills.
  27. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Her best album with RED and Speak Now. Songs like "Cruel Summer", "Cornelia Street" and "daylight". Wow. Expand
  28. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The best album i heard so far this year. The lyrics are so good. The production was so good too. The flavour of this album is 10/10. And that's on periodt, my luv! Expand
  29. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Love her so much and love album is lit, great producing, great lyrics, great album
  30. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Amazing Album! I love it! The album sounds more happy and poppy in which I like it the most. The lyrics are spot on with a great storyline.
  31. Aug 24, 2019
    7
    I liked it but reputation still better... anyway still a good album tho. Congrats
  32. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Love this album ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I am fall in love with Cruel Summer, London Boy and ME!
  33. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    With a bubblegum lead single, she was saving her finest sonically cohesive and lyrically masterpiece synth-pop songs alongside with the traces of country music. This is an another dimension of pop music that will surely be remembered for ages. If her last album 'reputation' wasn't nominated for album of the uear, she surely does secure the spot with this album, this year. Surely.
  34. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    One of the best albums i have ever heard deserves 1000 score it is very diverse i love it
  35. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This is the album of the year, I love this so much, we need more albums like this..
  36. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    That's her 7th album and she's still able to come with something new, something fresh and the most important- something that we all can relate to. Everybody feels love. You can love your pet, you can love your parents, you can love your bf/gf. This album definitely shows other sides of love, the joyful one, the painful one, the hopeless one, the slowly fading one.
  37. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    this album is the best!!! perfect like taylor swift, she is the queen of perfection in fact
  38. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Her best album I’m so proud
  39. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. not a fan taylor swift but this album was so good i love the man and miss americana Expand
  40. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Taylor Swift is perfect again. The album is very emotional, romantic and personal. I just love all the songs
  41. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    É o álbum do ano caralhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  42. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    The album is an empowerment to us fallen. Its full of love, a new stage in life. It incorporates Taylor Swift's growth as an artist and also as a person.
  43. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Really love the album, sounds differently from her past albums but has slight hints from them. Diverse but not messy.
  44. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Her best one yet, she is simply a genius with showing the world a glimpse into her world with her clever lyrics. One for the records and ages it is unmatched. She is making history every time she puts pen to paper. Continuous growth, evolving with these modern confusing times we call music. Timeless and beautiful.
  45. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    one of best albums I've ever heard, Taylor has never made these kind of sounds, sometimes reminds me of the 90s, such a great job by Taylor Swift
  46. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Her best album yet! No words, Just Beautiful! it drives you crazy on every tracks and my top 5 is Track Number - 2
    - 9
    - 12
    - 15
    - 18
  47. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This album is full of great lyrics, masterfully produced songs, and manages to be deliver a diverse range of sounds while remaining sonically cohesive. This is easily Taylors best album to date.
  48. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Es un gran álbum sin duda Taylor sabe cómo permanecer en la industria musical 13 años de carrera y se ha sabido mantener
  49. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Taylor Swift once again outdid herself with extremely wonderful work on this album. A perfect pop album with great melodies.
  50. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    13 years before and now Taylor Swift has been consistent and with Lover she has added another proof to the statement of being a songwriting savant. Well written, well sung and well produced, a must listen album. Give it a try. You are going to go on a rollercoster of romance to happiness to saddness and will love it.
  51. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Shes back every song is a masterpiece from the first song to the last Taylor's beautiful voice is front and center cradled with strong lyrical songwriting content. Thisalbum
  52. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Es perfecto. El album me hace querer encontrar un amor de ensueño como el de Taylor
  53. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This is far the best of her work for me. I love every single track of the album. Promotion is just like 1989. Hoping to break some records. Fighting!
  54. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I love Taylor Swift's love songs, whether they are happy or sad, country or pop she is such an amazing writer. Expand
  55. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    I felt the happiness in this album. Contentment and honesty the best for Taylor Swift
  56. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    "Lover" is such a good album, I've been listening only to this since its release. Everytime I change my mind but in the moment, I think my favourite song is "Cruel Summer". Taylor Swift is an amazing artist, her commitment and LOVE with her art is just magnificent. She deserves nothing but the best!
  57. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album is perfect, every song has beautiful, deep and thoughtful lyrics, she truly has made her greatest album. God bless her Expand
  58. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Não existem defeitos nesse álbum, todas as músicas são maravilhosas de uma forma singular.
    Obrigado Taylor, pelo melhor álbum de 2019.
  59. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Taylor's Lover will make you fall in love again! A mix of pure and fun lyrics, high level production and talent. Expand
  60. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This album is so good. It made me cry, it made me dance, It made me realize a lot of things. Taylor Swift had always made iconic albums and this album, Lover, is more than iconic. Listen to this. Stream it on any app.
  61. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before
  62. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    this album is magical. Lover is more than Taylor Swift’s best album. it’s an absolute musical masterpiece. her storytelling abilities never go out of style.
  63. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This album is one of Swifts finest work. Throughout the album you’re unconsciously nodding your head to each song. but the upbeat songs are also balanced by beautiful ballads like archer, lover and afterglow
  64. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    A perfect Taylor Swift album, but this time she's happy and in love. A continuum of her story to reputation chronologically and to Red thematically: this is the anti Red. For fans and listeners a very nice feeling knowing where she is in her life. A love letter to love itself, as she herself said.
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    Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its the best album ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤that i have ever heard Expand
  66. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This new album of Taylor is so great ! Anyone in love should hear this album. I love this album
  67. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. OMG, a great album of Taylor Swift. I love it. It has a perfect lyric and a great production. All tracks are very good and special. Haters gonna hate hate hate. Expand
  68. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Wow what a album. Lyrics, production, voice is amazing. I fell in love with the album on my first hearing. Keep it up Taylor Swift. You are really a great musician.
  69. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Its great to see her drown in happiness, love and all kinds of joys. Each song contains a different aspect of her emotions. Its like living in her dream, watching every single moment of her life fulfiled with delights.
  70. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    The album shows all the sides of love - complexity, passion, fear, coziness and so much more. The production is on point, Taylor's voice is at its peak. The lyrics are brilliant like always. From happy songs like "ME!" to sadder and more complex-ed songs like "Soon You'll Get Better".
    This album is phenomenal, revolutionary and evolutionary.
  71. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    Taylor Swift has truly shown her amazing talent of songwriting in this album.
  72. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    this is ART. period. Taylor did it again, she gave us a perfect masterpiece with the truth of her feelings. we love you. congrats.
  73. Aug 30, 2019
    0
    El álbum no es malo pero ha comparación de sus anteriores producciones es muy común y hay canciones que tiene el mismo sonido. No es mada comparada con sy antecesor
  74. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    An instant love. Sounds different from her previous works. If you love 1989, Speak Now and Red, you would definitely love this album!
  75. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    ketevemo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  76. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Loving this album a lot! Expand
  77. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lover is a storm of emotions. Lover is not only about loving someone but loving yourself. Expand
  78. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    One of the bests albums of the decade! Swift's show us a lot of chill songs with beautiful lyrics
  79. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    The best album this angel has made! From track 1 to 18, every song is perfect!
  80. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    Es tan simbólico. Una completa evolución de todos sus álbumes anteriores, realmente lo ame casi completo y lo mejor es que se siente a la Taylor real y feliz de expresar el romanticismo que siempre a la ha definido.

    Orgulloso de este trabajo
  81. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    such a masterpiece album . Best album of this year so far . i recommenced you guys should listen to the track 2, 7
  82. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    The album title is truly perfect, it doesn’t have an overall theme as it takes us through different emotions, Taylor once again proved she’s one of the greatest songwriters to ever exist 1,2,3 LGB
  83. Aug 31, 2019
    10
    Flopana stans are pressed as always.NFR flopped hard and Taylor already sold 3m worldwide.Lmao
  84. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    The talent, the taste, the snatched wigs, the art, the beauty, the intelligence, it’s everything we needed
  85. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    the most Taylor Swift thing I've ever heard. she's finally showing off her writing abilities and emotions without caring about the charts. the happiness in her voice is very contagious.
    a mature pop version of speak now.
  86. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    Whole album is just amazing, each song is brilliant, lyrics ,productions,her voice
  87. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    Masterpiece!! O really enjoy this album. There is a song for everyone. Taylor is in love!
  88. Aug 24, 2019
    10
    best album of 2019 HANDS DOWN. this album is the most raw and vulnerable you will ever witness taylor have with boppy songs literally ending sexism with “The Man” to very raw songs like “Soon You’ll Get Better” being a song about her mother getting cancer. this album is simply amazing and has a song for everyone in it!
  89. Aug 30, 2019
    0
    35% of this album: "I'm always the victim!"
    35% of this album: childish fairy tale made up of stupid and lame lyrics
    30% of this album: keeping repeating the same lyrics or changing them into different patterns 100% of this album: ridiculous and trash Vocal: horrible Production: messy Melodies: stolen Theme: childish, stupid and shameless Well, dear Taylor, you can keep buying good
    35% of this album: "I'm always the victim!"
    35% of this album: childish fairy tale made up of stupid and lame lyrics
    30% of this album: keeping repeating the same lyrics or changing them into different patterns
    100% of this album: ridiculous and trash
    Vocal: horrible
    Production: messy
    Melodies: stolen
    Theme: childish, stupid and shameless
    Well, dear Taylor, you can keep buying good reviews for your trash, but we are not deaf or stupid. The whole album sounds like recorded in karaoke. The vocal in this album is extremely horrible. Some parts, like the verses of " cruel summer" and “I Think He Knows” , may cause physiologic discomfort. The production is messy, making this album more noisy and inferior. Everything in this album has been done before by other artists and Taylor Swift herself, and has been down much better. You can even find some identical melodies. The only theme that appears in every song is that “I’m always the victim”. The opening song, “ I forgot that you existed”, is the stupidest of the whole album. If you did forget your ex, you would have let everything go, instead of writing a lame song chattering about how bad he hurt you years ago. With the stupid lyrics and the monopoly melodies, Taylor Swift sounds more like a drunk woman who misses her ex so bad but keeps making up excuses about how she shouldn’t miss him. The most shameful moment in reputation comes “The Man”. Compared to Beyonce’s “If I Were A Boy”, Taylor Swift sounds like a joker. She daydreamed that her career should have been much more successful if she were a man. Skipping into the music industry in a lovely and innocent girl image, becoming famous for writing touching music from a sensitive female, always portraying herself as a heartbroken woman and a victim, always dissing her exes, getting a huge fandom for being “American sweetheart”, Taylor Swift is the female celebrity who takes the most advantage of being a woman, and now she is complaining like men in this industry can do whatever they want without getting criticism. Well, if she were a man, she would have been laughed at for being over-sensitive. She would have been shamed for always shading his ex-girlfriends. If he cheated, like what she did to Calvin Harris, nobody would stand out and use feminism to protect him. It is really disgusting that Taylor Swift used her mother’s private medical condition to hype her single and album again and again. By the way, her mother’s radiant look seems to have nothing related with cancer. When the politics, women and LGBT needs Taylor Swift, she kept her mouth shut and hid away. When Taylor Swift flops and needs hype for her music, she talks endlessly about politics, feminism and LGBT rights. It is so offensive that she equate the LGBT community to drama queens in the YNTCD music video. Also, it’s so shameless of her to equate the LGBT community’s fight for equal rights to her dramas with other celebrities. The only good song in this album is “Death By A Thousands Cuts”. It is a sad song written in a typical Taylor Swift story-telling style. The lyrics are heartbreaking and the bridge is emotional. But compared to any sad songs Taylor Swift made before, like “All Too Well” and “Breathe”, this song is mediocre. This is 2019. 19 years old Lil Nas X shows us that music genres are boundless, and ”Old Town Road” reaches new milestones on charts. 17 years old Billie Eilish writes about anxiety, global warming and drug abuse, making startling music videos. Meanwhile, 30 years old Taylor Swift is still playing the victim, writing about her feud with other celebrities and writing Utopia fairy tales. There is no breakthrough, no touching feelings, no deep reflection of love and life, or complexity of a human being in Lover. There are only right or wrong, good or bad, pathetic daydreams, delusions of being the victim and shallow politic views. This album is like a box of over-flavored junk food. It does have flavors, but it is over-flavored and messy, and it is junk food anyway. It is also like a piece of colorful trash. The hype for this album is all over the place. The publicized reviews are full of flatters. Thousands of teenager fans are losing their minds. But under the glamorous cover, this album is plastic, shallow and trash.
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  90. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    She never desappoints me with any album and this is definitely one of the best in her discography. My favorite ones are Paper Rings, Cruel Summer, He knows and Lover. ❤
  91. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    amazing, specially from track 2 to track 11.

    the songwriting is excellent.

    best album of 2019 so far.
  92. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    love the album, taylor swift is and will always be one of the best songwriters in history
  93. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    El álbum del milenio que salvó 2019 de tanta boyfriend. No hay nada más que decir de esta obra de arte
  94. Aug 24, 2019
    9
    Taylor came back with another package of bops! Every songs in this record can be a single (except ME!)
  95. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    QUEM? A TAYLOR ENTÃO CALA SUA BOCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  96. Aug 25, 2019
    10
    Taylor surprised me every time she releases an album. I hope every song on the album will be on the Billboard Hot 100.
  97. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    Taylor is UNMATCHED. No one comes close to her. Lover shows why she's the best
  98. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    This. Is. A. Roller. Coaster. Ride. Album. This. Is. A. Roller. Coaster. Ride. Album. This. Is. A. Roller. Coaster. Ride. Album. This. Is. A. Roller. Coaster. Ride. Album. This. Is. A. Roller. Coaster. Ride. Album. This. Is. A. Roller. Coaster. Ride. Album.
  99. Aug 23, 2019
    9
    This album is really amazing,some songs of this album are really catchy, I can listen to these songs all day,however there are also some not my type,all in all this album is good.
  100. Aug 23, 2019
    10
    Wow. She did it again. This album is great and anyone who says different is deaf.
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Sep 9, 2019
    70
    It’s an album that screams out for an editor, but when it hits the right notes, it demonstrates just why Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.