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Breaking Down Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’

We break down our favorite and least favorite songs on the singer’s newest album

By Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Andrew Gruttadaro
2019 MTV Video Music Awards - Arrivals Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for MTV

Lover is better than Reputation, and that’s really all we can ask for. We break down our favorite and least favorite songs from Taylor Swift’s new album, do some close readings of “Forgot That You Existed” and “London Boy,” and pick the six songs we’d cut from the album.

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