Taylor Swift has taken to social media to reveal the names of all the songs from the Lover tracklist, and with just under a week to go until the album is released, fans are now speculating wildly as to what the titles could mean.
The singer revealed the full eighteen tracks in a series of Instagram posts overnight, each with six songs. While we’re devastated that ‘GAY RIGHTS!!! feat Ann Dowd‘ did not make the cut, we now know everything that did. The full list is:
- I Forgot That You Existed
- Cruel Summer
- Lover
- The Man
- The Archer
- I Think He Knows
- Miss Americana & The Heartbreaking Prince
- Paper Rings
- Cornelia Street
- Death By A Thousand Cuts
- London Boy
- Soon You’ll Get Better (featuring Dixie Chicks)
- False God
- You Need To Calm Down
- ME! (featuring Brendon Urie)
- It’s Nice To Have A Friend
- Daylight
Yesterday saw the release of the title track, which left many wondering she and boyfriend Joe Alwyn are now married. Taylor Swift loves a good cryptic lyric almost as much as she loves a good bridge, and the bridge to ‘Lover’ features some strongly matrimonial language:
“Ladies and gentlemen will you please stand / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover / My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue / All well that ends well to end up with you / Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover.”
The video arrives a day before the album’s release, and fans are currently freaking out over speculation that it may contain footage of a proposal or even a wedding, so that could definitely be interesting.
The singer previously told Vogue that her new song ‘The Man’ “plays with the idea of perception” and imagines how she might be written and spoken about if she were a man instead.
‘Cornelia Street’ is the address of a rental property where the singer lived in New York in 2016, while ‘London Boy’ is very likely a reference to Alwyn, who lives in North London.
We’ll just have to wait until August 23 to find out, but at least we have the Lover tracklist to pore over for clues until then.
