Taylor Swift has a brand new “Lover”

For years pop sensation, Taylor Swift, has tried to keep her romantic life private, until this past Friday night, when she shared a “Lover” she wants the world to know about.

On August 23, Taylor Swift released her seventh studio album titled “Lover.” Appropriately named, the 18 track album has a clear theme of love, relationships and heartbreak. Swift is no stranger to love songs, often singing about men in her own life. The album has yet to hit the charts but has received positive reviews from both Billboard and Rolling Stone.

The first track on the album is “I Forgot That You Existed.” The ultimate upbeat breakup song, the lyrics describe that feeling of finally being over someone who might have broken your heart. Definitely a song to turn up in your car and sing out loud with the windows down.

In contrast, “Cornelia Street” describes that attachment one feels to a certain time or place they have been with someone they care about. It is a bittersweet song with a more melancholy feeling attached to it. Swift sings about how she hopes to never lose the person in the song and if she did there were certain places that would be too difficult to return.

Towards the middle of the album “The Archer” is one of the slower songs on “Lover.” While still a great song, it is probably the most skippable on the album. Compared to other songs, it doesn’t have the same quality, but does add a nice balance in sound.

In contrast to Swift’s sixth album, “Reputation,” “Lover” has a lighter feel. “Reputation” helped Swift continue to explore her sound as an artist and moved away from her initial pop-country sound. With “Lover” you can hear Swift find a happy medium in her music that should please both old fans and new.

“Lover” includes Swift’s single “Me!” featuring Brendon Urie, lead singer of Panic at the Disco, that released this past April and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Her second single for the album, “You Need to Calm Down”, was released this past May and has been nominated for a Teen Choice Award and MTV Music Awards’ Song of the Summer.

In addition to the collaboration with Urie, Swift teamed up with country music trio, Dixie Chicks. The song “Soon You’ll Get Better” reaches out towards people dealing with chronic illness and includes lyrics inspired by her own mother’s battle with cancer. The combination of the Dixie Chicks and Swift relates back to Swift’s early career in the country music industry, before her jump to the world of pop.

Swift has already received some negative feedback on the song “London Boy” off of the album from London natives on social media. According to Fox News, the locals in London are mocking the “rose-tinted view” that Swift paints of the city.

Overall, “Lover” truly showcases Swift’s talents as an artist. It has a consistent flow and theme that makes it enjoyable to listen to all the way through. Billboard chart rankings and album sales will determine the album's popularity in the coming weeks. Meanwhile everyone can debate who she was singing about in each song.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars