Taylor Swift - Lover - Album Reaction
Added 2020-11-12 17:15:46 +0000 UTCComments
I absolutely love that the answer to 'please tell me there's a live version of [Lover]' is yes, multiple versions, and the Eras version is SO GOOD!! This was a blast to watch, thank you for this, years late!
Darsy Smith
2024-01-29 02:35:28 +0000 UTCI have a tattoo for "I ask the traffic lights if it'll be alright, they say I don't know" still one of my favorite lyrics from her ever!!!
lex
2023-11-25 21:24:28 +0000 UTCObviously I'm a couple years late but I'm having so much fun going through these reactions with you. Since I'm late I'm reacting to the album listen, then MVs, then tour. But I'm so happy you enjoyed this album as much as I did! It's so underrated. Can't wait to keep watching to see the MV reactions for this era. Is it insane to be commenting this much later? Lol
April Green
2023-10-19 15:54:43 +0000 UTCYou Need To Calm Down is overlooked a lot, even by many Swifties. I think it’s easy to forget about the lyrics and the meaning when people hear the melody which is really sad!
Bangtan is life
2022-03-13 19:07:03 +0000 UTCYour reaction afterglow (my fave song on lover btw) was such a MOOD! 😂 brightened my whole day! 💜
RobynEilish97
2022-02-27 12:24:59 +0000 UTCLover as an album is underrated coz people just don't know how to have fun
Vanessa
2021-11-17 15:52:58 +0000 UTCListen to Daylight referring to Red. Took me forever to catch!
Just Susie
2021-09-26 03:38:26 +0000 UTCI know that I love every song on this album. She is the only artist that I can listen to every album from beginning to end. The only artist!
Just Susie
2021-06-21 00:50:56 +0000 UTCCruel Summer is everything
Storm
2021-05-27 13:47:06 +0000 UTCThe Tiny Desk performance during this era is worth a watch! The live performance of Death By a Thousand Cuts is absolutely amazing.
Murpheyy
2021-05-23 21:11:14 +0000 UTCWaiting for LOVER album music videos! :)
Cess G
2021-05-12 14:52:56 +0000 UTCI just bought this on vinyl and wanted to go through it with you before it got here. Your reactions are like a music appreciation class, but fun.
April Wier
2021-05-02 22:18:27 +0000 UTCJust now checking this out but please watch these live. I think down her small concert of City of Lover off Hulu and Disney+ (not sure why 🙄) but there are recordings of each song she performed there on YouTube. Cornelia Street and Death by a Thousand Cuts is AMAZING live so highly recommend. She also did some on SNL, BBC radio, and maybe one other place??
Virginia
2021-03-11 22:22:41 +0000 UTCHello! I am just going through this video but seeing your reaction to lover (the song) I feel the same, and if you haven't yet, check out the first dance version as well (it is also on streaming)
Jessika Johns
2020-11-19 11:19:50 +0000 UTCTaylor is a genius at songwriting whether the songs are from personal experience as most of her songs are, or from a made up perspective as with much of Folklore and the song Death By a Thousand Cuts, which was inspired by a relationship from a movie she watched on Netflix. Soon You’ll Get Better is a beautiful song, but I can’t listen to it. It just about breaks me every time, even though I’ve never had someone close to me go through something like that, which I think just proves how good she is. I’ve heard it maybe 5 times since the album came out. The Chicks (formerly The Dixie Chicks) are on the song because they are one of her mom’s favorite artists. Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince is one of my favorites off this album. I absolutely love the way she used high school as a metaphor for politics in the US over the last few years.
Jared
2020-11-14 02:00:22 +0000 UTCOverall I don't really vibe with this album as a whole, but some of my favourite Taylor songs of all time are on this album. Great reaction again, Michael! If you want to hear some extremely talented and underrated male pop and/or pop-punk vocalists, I urge you to look into Superfruit and Marianas Trench. Superfruit only has one album right now, but every single song has a corresponding music video, so that might be fun for you. Marianas Trench has a larger discography and a really developed sense of storytelling.
Jayde Ritchey
2020-11-13 00:58:35 +0000 UTCYes to all of this! Especially tiny desk (look at the track listing though because she does play 1-2 older songs) and her BBC 1 live lounge (but again it has 1 old song so skip that if you want) https://youtu.be/uZoH_dJvBps
Liz N
2020-11-12 23:51:52 +0000 UTCSo the tour for Lover was supposed to be this year, but it was cancelled due to covid. In 2019 she did do a small concert called City of Lover in Paris, which you can watch on Disney + (songs include ME!, the archer, you need to calm down, the man, Cornelia street, death by a thousand cuts, daylight, and lover). For other live performances during this era, I recommend false god from SNL, her BBC radio live lounge performances of Lover and London Boy, ME! At the billboard music awards with Brendon Urie, and you need to calm down from the MTV music video awards. She also made a song around Christmas time called “Christmas tree farm” in 2019. There’s a music video for it and a live performance of it at the iheart radio jingle bell concert!
Katey
2020-11-12 21:47:50 +0000 UTCin terms of what you should do next, i'd def recommend watching the Miss Americana doc first, then doing the reputation album, then the tour for reputation as well as the making of a song for reputation which i think you'd love. :)
Kayleigh Staughton
2020-11-12 20:58:50 +0000 UTCOh and The Chicks are the Dixie chicks. They dropped the “Dixie” recently I think.
Ashley O
2020-11-12 19:54:51 +0000 UTCLoved this reaction! I LOVED Taylor when she was county and I loved 1989 and lover. I haven’t listened to reputation or folklore that much. The song soon you’ll get better is about her mom (I think) she had/had cancer. Can’t wait for you to listen to 1989. That’s my favorite album of hers!
Ashley O
2020-11-12 19:51:05 +0000 UTCLove your reactions! thank you! as a swiftie for 10 years now seeing someone listening to Taylor for the first time is always fun! Taylor writes all of her songs by herself. even her co-writers say it. they say they function more as an editors and help Taylor deciding which way to go rather than actually writing the lyrics in her songs. they all say she's writing all the lyrics and they help her put the music around it. so the co-writers credit on her songs are mainly for these people to get the royalities from streaming and plays and to give them credit too. in 'Lover' Taylor is credited as the sole writer on 3 songs: 'Lover' 'Cornelia Street' and 'Daylight'. and in her 3rd studio album Taylor wrote all of the songs without any co-writers to prove to her critics that she is actually writing her songs, and that was at the age of 18-19! so I can't wait till you get to the album 'Speak Now'. the lyrics in that album are so good when you know an 18 y.o wrote them solo. In the Miss Americana documantry there are a couple of studio sessions where you can see her making the songs 'The Man' and 'ME!' with Brandon Urie. but when you'll get to reputation there's a whole series of 'The making of reputation' where Taylor filmed herself during the making of this album so there are like 9 videos, each showing a different song she made for reputation and it's so good. I can't wait to see you react to reputation. Taylor talked with The New York Times in a video interview about making the song 'Lover' and how it came about. since she wrote all the lyrics of the song all by herself she's talking about it, and it's very interesting. I hope you'll react to that as well. here's a link to the interview on 'Lover': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEeWmItgdxA I recommend this interview she did where she talks about some of the major stuff she's been through like her battle with her former label not willing to sell her her masters and she got into public feud with them cause they didn't allow her to sing her songs and such. it's really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzhoofkRJI here's the link to a playlist on youtube with all of the 'The making of' videos of reputation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVKq2UxZDwdZPaNWIDOUHm7FBMHeYUwfj Soon You'll Get Bettter is about Taylor's mother. Taylor and her mom, Andrea are very tight and close since forever. Taylor's mom has been next to her every step Taylor took. and in 2015 her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and through the years she survived it, and during one of the Lover era interviews Taylor revealed that her mom was recently diagnosed (that was in 2019) with brain tumor. so that's what inspired Taylor to write the song. Sadly Afterglow wasn't a single and Taylor never played it live (it's my fav song off the album). Lover came out in August 2019, so Taylor didn't perform this album a lot since Covid-19 began. she was supposed to do a stadium tour for Lover in Summer 2019. and then in July she released folklore. so we (the fans) think she might do a tour of Lover and folklore together whenever it's possible. Here is a youtube playlist of the best live performances from the Lover era. like the NPR - Tiny Desk performance which I strongly recommend because Taylor talks about the meaning of the songs she performs in that Tiny Desk performance. Taylor did with songs like 'The Man' 'Lover' 'Death By A Thousand Cuts' (which is so so good in the NPR performance) all acoustic. and some more great performances from that era of 'The Archer' 'Cornelia Street' and 'Daylight': https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVKq2UxZDwdZeznoCVM6O2xYVG-Jk7nDh
Tal
2020-11-12 19:45:09 +0000 UTCOh my god I loved watching your reaction so much. I’ve probably listened to this album so many times and watching you listen to it felt like I was listening to it for the first time again. I got very emotional all over again. You should definitely check out the City of Lover concert on Disney+ for live versions of a lot of these songs. She does Cornelia Street, Lover, The Man, and Death by A Thousand Cuts all acoustically (they’re also available on Spotify and Apple Music). Miss Americana is like heart wrenching to watch but so so good! And if you want more of her song writing when you get to the 1989 era there’s voice memos for how she wrote a few of the songs. Reputation also has a bunch of “making of” videos on YouTube. I can’t wait for you to deep dive into the rest of Taylor’s work! (Btw, once you listen to Red you should go back and listen to Daylight again. There’s a little Easter egg there in the lyrics! Taylor does a ton of Easter eggs and hidden messages for her fans)
CrystallDaddy
2020-11-12 18:55:47 +0000 UTC
