Hey Lover.
Swiftly moving on from the beef all about it, 90's hip-hop like cover of her last war declaring album that hit that tabloids, Tay, Tay, Taylor Swift gets her '1989' fresh reputation back as the king princess of pure pop for the Summer bubblegum popping crowd this season. Now look what you made her do. Her last album was an underrated sleeper and grower. That like it's subject matter needs to be addressed. 'Reputation' was as brave and bold as they come. But save her 'Red' country strong roots, Taylor's latest, brand new album just in time for the last 500 days of Summer is the 'Lover' of the light Swift we know best. Haters would have said it was like a photoshopped copy if this new album came after one that inspired an alt-rocker who shall not be named to cover it in its entirety with his own independent album like 1990. And still look what they did to her 'Reputation'. But this new breath of fresh air like a new Summer love is the perfect romance to keep die hard fans happy and maybe even silence a few critics who need to calm down (they're being too loud). Powered by the pride of this LGBT anthem that rocks like Beyoncé in 'The Lion King', the candy coloured cameo filled video brings everyone from the talk show of Ellen to the drag race of RuPaul, as Ryan Reynolds paints all this every colour canvas food fight that even reunites the former beef burger drama of Taylor and Katy Perry by the patty party. The two pop queen's are like peas and carrots...or burgers and fries again. With Swift's first album in a pair of years I guess they are no longer in the 'Endgame' anymore like collaborating with Ed Sheeran. After a war that seemed to last like infinity it's over in a SNAP...dust!
"Sunshine on the street at the parade/But you would rather be in the dark age/Just makin' that sign must've taken all night/You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peace/And control your urges to scream about all the people you hate/'Cause shade never made anybody less gay." 'Calm Down' isn't just a Swift classic, song of the summer, or year. It's also subtley so-until you see the beautiful video-one of the most important songs of her whole career and our generations time right about now. And if you thought that was hot like Will Smith looking through a telescope, then wait until you hear the title track and peer into the snow globe of this festive feeling and game changing video. In your 'Wildest Dreams', 'Lover' sounds somewhere between the love of her new beautiful ballads and the old country strings from her early Nashville days that will never go out of style for the biggest country to pop star since Shania Twain felt like a woman and impressed us all. 'Lover' this album is full of big numbers like the millions of albums she'll sell with this before the platinum plaques turn into a billion served for someone as American as the golden arches of McDonald's. But this sugars too sweet to rock your teeth. From the highly anticipated 'Soon You'll Get Better' duet with country legends The Dixie Chicks (well worth the wait), to a scooter assist from London's 'Luther' himself Idris Elba (like the time he challenged rapper Macklemore to a 'Dance Off'). As Taylor sees the Big Smoke of Estelle's 'American Boy' with another who shall not be named and raises her a 'London Boy' and an itinerary that has been having Brits scratching their heads on Twitter. I hope she's reloaded her Oyster Card for this Underground route and does it pass through Bond Street hey 'Dris? And how about the instantly recognisable when it's dropped at the party banger 'ME!' (sorry for shouting) with Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco!? But for all the big guns from the 'Bad Blood' singer who brought them all out like Kendrick Lamar for the remix, it's the smouldering season feeling 'Cruel Summer' that is is so good Ellen Degeneres got it tattooed on her arm. Swifties may just do so too.
Ink this Idris! This is one of Taylor's best made albums yet. Just like from Jake to Tom, Taylor's trademark brutal breakup records. The indifferent opening 'I Forgot That You Existed' and it's "Lived in the shade you were throwing/'Til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone/And I couldn't get away from ya
In my feelings more than Drake, so yeah/Your name on my lips, tongue-tied/Free rent, living in my mind" before she gets to a peace over something she thought initially would kill her (we've all been there) are actually inspired. It's not love. It's not hate. It's something in-between. Whilst the 'If I Was A Boy' idea of 'The Man' lets her get her concept on like the Cupid bullseye of 'The Archer' gets her Hawkeye on. More killer than the 'Wonderful, Wonderful' Brandon Flowers song of the same name she scathes, I"would be complex, I would be cool/They'd say I played the field before I found someone to commit to/Amen that would be okay for me to do/Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you." Boom...feel the burn man. Amen! The aware 'I Think He Knows', the cranes run around like a Daisy chain of 'Paper Rings' and the regret laced destination no longer known of 'Cornelia Street' are far from filler, more formidable. But it's the standout should be single, 'Miss American And The Heartbreak Prince' that you'll really love. It even sounds like the perfect U.S. band name Tom Petty. Yet free fallin' through the rest of this set nothing goes quite as deeper as the 'Death By A Thousand Cuts' as Swift strains over the strings as she sings for a broken heart inspired by Netflix's 'Someone Great', "I see you everywhere, the only thing we share/Is this small town/You said it was a great love, one for the ages/But if the story’s over, why am I still writing pages"? Scorned lovers will love this albums 'False God', whilst those in need to get by will be glad to know 'Its Nice To Have A Friend' and it's steel drum Jamaican meets Japanese sound. Still it's the atmospheric 'Afterglow' and the dawn of 'Daylight' closing this 18 track of teenage love in an adulting world that take 'Lover' to the heart and electric soul of matters. For this neon sonic scoring summertime gladness music that's going to rock no doubt from Orange County, California to those Harajuku lovers in Tokyo, Japan. This is Taylor's time now bitches! And what a throne in this game to take the crown back. Queen Beyoncé running the world like the rest of the girls. The identity of Sia's sound. The 'Mothers Daughter' of the unstoppable Ashley O, Miley Cyrus no matter your black mirror. A star reborn in the Oscar winning Lady Gaga and of course Ariana Grande. And lets not forget new queen's like Maggie Rogers and King Princess. Or 'Norman F###### Rockwell', Lana Del Rey. And now Taylor remade. Thank you, next. What a time to be alive when it comes to the power of women in pop. Let alone the rest of the entertainment and wide world. Haters you've got to love this, like you'll love 'Lover'. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Calm Down', 'Lover', 'Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince'.
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