Ready For ItEverything We Know So Far About Taylor Swift’s Upcoming 7th Album, ‘Lover’

How many songs will be on ‘Lover?’

You guys might want to brace yourselves because there’s going to be a whopping 18 songs on Lover. That’s actually the most she’s ever had on any album. And get this — there’s going to be four different Target-exclusive versions you can buy, all filled with a ton of new content. Yes, we did say four. Each one will contain journal entries from Taylor’s diaries, which she’s been keeping since she was 13 years old. Diary excerpts will include her emotions and feelings, what it was like through her teen years, original song lyrics and more! Taylor also revealed that there’s going to be two bonus tracks, which will show fans how she made two of the songs on the album. This is seriously way too much for us to handle.

Has Taylor released any songs from ‘Lover’ so far?

Yep! So far, the Grammy Award winning artist has dropped three songs from the upcoming album. “ME!” which featured Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie came out back in May 2019. “You Need to Calm Down” was released one month later, and she dropped “The Archer” in July 2019. And did we mention that they’re all absolute bops?

What will the other songs on ‘Lover’ be called?

Taylor unfortunately hasn’t shared the rest of the track names yet. BUT, fans did notice that she registered three new songs on GEMA back in February, which is an electronic database that artists use to get paid for their tunes. The three songs that she registered are titled “Family,” “Pretty Words” and “AUA!” so it’s safe to assume that these three songs will be on the album! We’re especially curious about “AUA!,” which some fans think may stand for “always under attack,” but that’s all just speculation for now.

And the best part? They list Max Martin and Shellback as the cowriters, who, as fans of the singer know, also cowrote most of 1989 and Reputation. The singer also revealed during an Instagram live on July 23, 2019, that Jack Antonoff was a big part of the album too! He previously worked with Taylor on tracks like “Out of the Woods,” “I Wish You Would,” “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Getaway Car,” “Dress” and more. Wow, based on that alone, we know the album is going to be amazing.

And during a recent interview with Vogue, Taylor shared some major deets on two more tracks from Lover. She told the outlet that she “plays with the idea of perception” in a song called “The Man.”

“If I had made all the same choices, all the same mistakes, all the same accomplishments [and I was a man], how would it read?” she explained.

She even shared some of the lyrics!

“I’d be a fearless leader. I’d be an alpha type. When everyone believes ya: What’s that like?” she sings in the new tune.

As for the title track, “Lover,” she said it has “one of [her] favorite bridges.”

“I love a bridge, and I was really able to go to Bridge City,” she joked.

The outlet described it as a “romantic, haunting, waltzy, singer-songwritery nugget.”

“My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue,” the lyrics read. “All’s well that ends well to end up with you.”

And get this, you guys — Taylor invited some diehard Swifties to come over to her house and listen to Lover a few weeks early, during something she calls the Secret Sessions. And one of them claimed that there’s a collaboration between Taylor, Katy Perry and Selena Gomez on the album! OMG.

“The song is all about women empowerment,” the fan wrote on Twitter.

We’re not 100 percent sure how legit this is, but this needs to happen, like, now. There’s also an alleged track list circulating the web. It’s hard to say if it’s real or not, but here are the rumored song titles:

1) “I Forgot You Existed”
2) “Cruel Summer”
3) “Lover”
4) “The Man”
5) “The Archer”
6) “I Think He Knows”
7) “The Americana and The Heartbreak Prince”
8) “Paper Rings”
9) “Cornelius Street”
10) “Soon You’ll Get Better” (feat. Dixie Chicks)
11) “Death By A Thousand Cuts”
12) “London Boy”
13) “False God”
14) “You Need To Calm Down”
15) “Afterglow”
16) “ME!” (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco)
17) “It’s Nice To Have A Friend”
18) “Daylight”

When did she record ‘Lover?’

Taylor revealed in a recent interview with Kiss 92.5 that she started working on the album as soon as the Reputation Stadium Tour finished.

“I started working on it pretty much immediately after [the tour], but I did have a lot of ideas I’d been cultivating while I was on tour,” she explained. “I pretty much got into the studio when I got off tour and stayed there. I was very ready to make the next thing. I knew exactly what I wanted to make next.”

“I was compiling ideas for a very long time,” she also told Vogue. “When I started writing, I couldn’t stop.”

Ugh, we cannot wait to hear it!

What will ‘Lover’ be about?

There’s obviously no way to know for sure, but fans are already making assumptions based off the song titles that she registered on GEMA, her pink and girly Instagram posts and the style of the three tracks that she’s already released. But Taylor revealed during an interview with Zach Sang that the first single, “ME!,” doesn’t sum up the sound of the album at all.

“It’s always really difficult to pick a first single for my albums because I try to make an album that’s so vast in its scope of things,” she explained. “There isn’t ever just one song that could sum up what the album is. But I knew that [“ME!”] just felt like a celebration. It felt like something that could make you feel good. And I just want that right now for people. I want that for me when I perform it. I want to feel good and feel positive and feel hopeful. This album is a pretty big story. There’s a lot to say. Like I said, a lot of the time I’ll pick a first single because I like the feeling it conveys, knowing that there’s a lot more on the album that’s very different from that first single.”

Our guess is that TS7 will probably be about her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. The blonde beauty and the 27-year-old British actor have been happily in love since 2017, and since Taylor is pretty known for writing about her love life and relationships, it’s pretty likely that we’ll be getting some adorable songs about her beau. And in her Instagram Live, Taylor revealed that the album definitely has a ton of romance in it!

“I think the idea of something being romantic, it doesn’t have to be a happy song. You can find romance in loneliness or sadness or going through a conflict or dealing with things in your life. It looks at things with a very romantic gaze,” she explained.

And while speaking to British radio station, Heart, she called the album, “The spring to her winter.”

“In every way, I want this album to symbolize growth and things you learn along the way and things I find romantic. That doesn’t mean it’s just a love album and everything’s a love song,” she explained. “The album is very pure in a sense that it’s not a response to anything. This album is not responding to any sort of adversity. In my life, it’s like, what would I write if I was just writing? Because Reputation felt, in a lot of ways, like my only way to respond to certain things.”

And don’t expect it to be all happy because the “Blank Space” songstress admitted that the album will contain a “diverse emotional spectrum.”

“The album has lots of different emotional tones to it, in the same way that a person is never going to just be happy all the time,” Taylor said in a recent interview. “When I make an album, it’s never just going to be a happy album.”

And the singer told Vogue that it may be her favorite album yet!

“There are so many ways in which this album feels like a new beginning,” she added. “This album is really a love letter to love, in all of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, wonderful glory.”

After the Secret Sessions, one fan described the album as “amazing,” and filled with “so many amazing bops and also some true tearjerkers.”

“I believe there’s something for everyone on that album. There’s some really stripped down stuff and some hardcore bops. But all in all, amazing. If Reputation wasn’t your cup of tea, I am sure you will love Lover,” the Swiftie shared on Twitter.

In comparison to her old albums, another fan claimed that it was most similar to 1989.

“I would say [it’s] like 1989 production, but with new elements,” they wrote. “Very romantic album, lyrics definitely more Speak Now vibes with a hint of Fearless? I don’t even know how to explain it. … A very raw and real album.”

Fans also revealed that track 10 is super emotional.

“Everyone in the room sobbed,” a fan wrote on Tumblr about when the 10th song on Lover came on during the Secret Sessions. “When Taylor explained the backstory and how it was emotional to write, it was like a friend opening up. She didn’t want to be in the room while it played because it’s still so hard to listen to without getting emotional. She trusts us and loves us so much, and she wanted to put this on her album although it was such a complex one to write and listen to. I was so proud of her for being so open and honest. Tack 10 is so raw and honest, and for me it’s perhaps her saddest song ever.”

What were some past theories about ‘Lover?’

After Taylor revealed that the name of the album was actually located somewhere inside the “ME!” music video, fans quickly started theorizing about what it may be called.

So… the new album title is actually revealed somewhere in the video AND so is the title of the second single, but I haven’t seen people finding them yet…
🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♀️ #MEmusicvideohttps://t.co/cdxQ6dFiar

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 26, 2019

Although we now know it’s called Lover (there’s actually a neon sign that says the word “Lover” in the background of the music video!), some were convinced the album was going to be called “Home” at first. Why? Well, they swore they could see the word written behind Brendon and Tay during one scene. Others were sure it was going to be called “Daisy” since the Panic! At the Disco singer gave Taylor a bouquet of daisy’s during the vid. And some fans believed it was going to be named “Kaleidoscope” since the music video started with a bunch of butterflies flying towards her. And get this — a group of butterflies is actually called a kaleidoscope! Although they ended up being wrong, those were all pretty good theories, if you ask us.

What other clues are there in her ‘ME!’ music video?

According to Taylor, there are a ton more clues about her upcoming seventh album in the music video.

“Every single choice we made was to foreshadow something that will happen in the course of the album,” Taylor said on HITS Radio. “When I was like 16 and I put out my first album, I put codes in the lyric jacket of the CD. I capitalized certain letters, and I was like, ‘I wonder if they’ll figure out that it spells out a code’, and they did immediately. From then on I’ve known that [my fans] like to play games with music. I like for music to be as much of an event as possible.”

But some won’t make sense for a long time!

“[Brendon and I fight] in French, and that’s another clue that will probably be revealed in the next few months,” she said during an interview on KIIS FM. “A lot of the Easter Eggs I put in the videos are ones that I want to age well. Some of them I want to be revealed when people watch the video initially, and then some of them people won’t realize the meaning of until about six months to a year from now when we go on tour. That’s how far ahead I’ve been planning this album.”

She also said in an interview with Ryan Seacrest that some of the clues in the video are references to specific lyrics on the album. Wow. Make sure to check out our guide to all of the Easter eggs in the new music video here.

Well guys, there’s one thing we know for sure — this album is going to be epic.