Compared to her previous release, 2017’s dark and dangerous “Reputation,” Taylor Swift‘s seventh studio album “Lover” represents a lyrical and sonic step into the daylight — but there’s still plenty of drama to be parsed on her epic new LP, which dropped Friday at midnight.
From revelations about her relationship with boyfriend Joe Alwyn to a surprising shoutout to noted Hollywood lothario Leonardo DiCaprio, below is our thorough breakdown of every last celebrity name-checked (or simply referenced) in the 29-year-old pop phenom’s latest lyrics.
“I Forgot That You Existed”
“How many days did I spend thinking ’bout how you did me wrong, wrong, wrong? / Lived in the shade you were throwing till all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone,” Swift sings in the first lines of her opening track. Notably the only song on the album to reference Swift’s longtime feud with Kanye West, “I Forgot That You Existed” mentions not just the rapper (and his wife Kim Kardashian) but also the friends and fans who left her during the fallout.
“Got out some popcorn as soon as my rep started going down, down, down / Laughed on the schoolyard as soon as I tripped up and hit the ground, ground, ground,” Swift sings, presumably referring to Kardashian, who in July 2016 released video of the musician appearing to approve lyrics in West’s “Famous” about her, prompting social media users to spam Swift with snake emojis in what the star has referred to as a “mass public shaming.”
Some fans, however, are convinced this track is aimed squarely at Swift’s ex Calvin Harris. The two had plenty of public drama following their 2016 breakup, and while the lines “would’ve been right there, front row, even if nobody came to your show” could easily refer to West, they could also be a dig at the DJ. Both, after all, “sent [her] a clear message, taught [her] some hard lessons” that fateful year.
Swift also sneaks in a nod to another rapper who’s beefed with West — “In my feelings more than Drake, so yeah” — before ultimately making it clear that she’s over fighting her famous foes, and in fact hardly thinks of them anymore. “It isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference,” she sings with a shrug.
“Lover”
Swift’s title track is a clear ode to Alwyn. “I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, but I want them all,” she croons; the pair reportedly first met at the 2016 Met Gala, so the timing checks out. And judging by the lyrics that follow — “My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue, all’s well that ends well to end up with you” — the “Blank Space” hitmaker’s got marriage on her mind.
“The Man”
One of the highlights of Track 4, in which Swift envisions her hypothetical career path if she were a male artist, involves a mention of Leonardo DiCaprio. “And they would toast to me, oh, let the players play / I’d be just like Leo in Saint-Tropez,” she sings, juxtaposing the media’s coverage of her own well-documented dating life to that of Hollywood’s most notorious modelizer.
And while she presumably penned the track prior to having her old record label (and master recordings) purchased by Scooter Braun earlier this summer, it’s hard not to view “The Man” as a dig at the mega manager, whom she recently said “has never made any art in his life.” (Swift recently revealed her plan to re-record her masters in 2020.)
“I Think He Knows”
References to “that boyish look that I like in a man” and “indigo eyes” suggest that this one, too, is about Alwyn. There’s more marriage talk, too: “He’d better lock it down or I won’t stick around / ‘Cause good ones never wait.”
“Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince”
Swift gets political here, painting a lyrical picture of both President Donald Trump’s America and the backlash following her much-criticized silence during the 2016 presidential election (“They whisper in the hallway, ‘She’s a bad, bad girl'”).
She mentions “American glory faded before me” and “American stories burning before me,” while “Boys will be boys then, where are the wise men? Darling, I’m scared” appears to be a critique of the Trump administration. “We’re so sad, we paint the town blue,” meanwhile, could be a nod to her status as a Democrat.
In a new interview with the Guardian, Swift discussed her political leanings further, explaining that Trump is “gaslighting the American public into being like, ‘If you hate the president, you hate America,'” confirming that she voted for Hillary Clinton and pledging to “do everything I can for 2020.”
“Paper Rings”
More Alwyn, more signs the couple are as serious as it gets (“I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings”). In a dashed-off detail, Swift also suggests that Anna Wintour’s ban on smoking at the Met Gala is still going ignored: “The moon is high, like your friends were the night that we first met.”
“Cornelia Street”
Swift rented a charming carriage house at 23 Cornelia St. back in 2016, while her Franklin Street home in Tribeca was being renovated. The rental coincides with the summer she met Alwyn, and the song’s lyrics — “I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends / I’d never walk Cornelia Street again” — deal with the delicate nature of a new relationship and the fear it might end badly.
“London Boy”
This upbeat track may kick off with a surprise cameo from her British “Cats” co-star Idris Elba, but what follows is clearly a love letter to her favorite Londoner, Alwyn. “He likes my American smile, like a child when our eyes meet / Darling, I fancy you,” she sings.
Swift also shouts out British designer Stella McCartney, with whom she collaborated on a “Lover”-inspired clothing line and pop-up shop: “Stick with me, I’m your queen / Like a Tennessee Stella McCartney.”
“Daylight”
Swift’s “Lover” closer makes mention of her past failed relationships, with the star singing, “Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky, and so I became the butt of the joke / I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked” and referencing exes who “ran with the wolves and refused to settle down.”
Judging by the chorus, however — “I don’t wanna look at anything else now that I saw you / I don’t wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you” — it seems Swift’s future is with Alwyn.
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