In Defense of Taylor Swift's Lover Album

In Defense of Lover: Hot Takes, Medium Talk, and the “Flop Era” DebateMorgan introduces In Defense of My Fave, a music commentary podcast where rotating guests defend albums, noting season one covers 12 Taylor Swift albums. In this episode, Morgan and guests discuss Taylor Swift’s Lover (released Aug. 23, 2019), its context as her first album post–Big Machine amid the Scooter Braun masters sale, and how it competed in a stacked 2019. They review critical and commercial notes (Metacritic 79, best-selling album of 2019, sixth straight No. 1 debut), key collaborators (Jack Antonoff, Joel Little, Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, Soundwave), and Joe Alwyn song associations, then go track-by-track with tier rankings, praising songs like “Cruel Summer,” “Lover,” “The Archer,” “False God,” and “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” while debating “You Need to Calm Down” and especially “ME!,” before tallying album scores to see where Lover ranks on Morgan's definitive album ranking list.Visuals of our tier rankings: https://www.instagram.com/p/DclbInHDd-9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==Follow the show! https://www.instagram.com/indefenseofmyfave/