page_title: Lover (Taylor Swift song)
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context_page_description: "Lover" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, for her seventh studio album of the same name. It was released on August 16, 2019, through Republic Records, as the third single from the album. Solely written by Swift and co-produced with Jack Antonoff, "Lover" is a country ballad and waltz that draws influences from folk, indie folk, pop and torch. The lyrics exhibit devotion to her romantic partner, with a whimsical tone, over a guitar-centric sound, slow tempo, booming snare and nostalgic instrumentals. Music critics praised its vintage quality and Swift's songwriting.
  "Lover" peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the album's third consecutive top-ten single on the Hot 100. It also entered the top-ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. The song is Platinum certified in Australia and 3× Platinum in Canada. The song's music video was co-directed by Swift and Drew Kirsch and features dancer Christian Owens as Swift's love interest. Premiering on August 22, 2019, the video adopts a Christmas aesthetic and follows a couple living inside a dollhouse with seven distinctly-colored rooms inside a snow globe.
context_section_description: Describing her seventh studio album Lover as a "love letter to love", Swift attempted to convey an emotional spectrum and vulnerability by looking at emotions including sadness and loneliness "through a romantic gaze". The album took under three months to record; recording ended in February 2019. Jack Antonoff co-produced the album; his role was announced with the release of "The Archer" in July. Antonoff, who co-produced 11 of the 18 tracks for the album and co-wrote eight of them, had collaborated with Swift on "Sweeter than Fiction" (2013), 1989 (2014), "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (2016) and Reputation (2017). 
  Swift wrote "Lover" late one night at her home in Nashville, Tennessee on the piano, and sent a voice memo of the song to Antonoff. She flew to New York City the next day to work on the song with Antonoff and recording engineer Laura Sisk at Electric Lady Studios. Swift played the song on the piano for them; Swift and Antonoff produced the final version of the song during a six-hour recording session, using reverberation, a piano and a Mellotron. Sisk and John Rooney recorded the song while Serban Ghenea mixed it with additional engineering from John Hanes.
  I was sitting up at the piano up in my loft, and I had the chorus. It just kind of happened immediately. It was one of those ones that I wrote very very, very quickly. And I was working out the cadence of the first verse and it just sort of fell together. But then I took some time to write the bridge because I wanted to really level up with that bridge. That one would for me would be less of a ranting bridge and more of a story-time fable type bridge. Sometimes I like to imagine a bridge as like a sort of fairy-tale lullaby fable expanding upon a song that has been not as detailed until that point. "Can I go where you go/ Can we always be this close forever and ever" is less detail, then when you go to the bridge and you realize like, oh, it just got really personal in the bridge. It expands on it all.
  — Taylor Swift, "9 Taylor Swift Moments That Didn't Fit in Our Cover Story", Rolling Stone
  The song's title was revealed along with the lyrics; "My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue / All's well that ends well to end up with you" in a  Vogue interview published on August 8, 2019. Three days later, Swift announced its release date at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards. "Lover" was released as the third single from the album on August 16, 2019. A lyric video showing home videos of Swift projected onto a white sheet with the song's lyrics overlaid was uploaded to YouTube.
caption: Jack Antonoff co-produced "Lover".
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