Finish 'Lover' on Spotify and the 'streaming' service takes you to Carly Rae Jepsen's latest album. At a time when you intend to intellectualize everything that pop stars do, these small details give the most clues. Taylor Swift has just released his latest album and the music industry and critics and fans applaud: 'Lover' is a return to that recent past in which there was not yet this blackened layer, like soot, covering everything. At the time of '1989' (2014), when Taylor became the queen of pop after having been the 'little heart' of the US in the 'country' version.

If '1989' made her a superstar, 'Reputation' (2017) showed the consequences. Taylor wanted to go bad, she was pissed off and cynical . It went wrong. Now he knocks on the door, knock, with a handful of sticky songs like gum in his hair, although lost in a record like a sugar-free day.

Starting at least pop, 'Lover' looks back on songs like 'Soon you'll get better', a country ballad with the Dixie Chicks about her mother's cancer. Also the theme that gives the title to the album, a song that surpasses the Springsteen inspired by a trip from the center of the US to the margins of global music. There is also 'The archer', an epic 'crescendo' that never reaches the final high and, however, does not leave you with frustration. At the end, another surprise: 'It's nice to have a friend', a perfect combination of four sound materials without falling into the minimalist.

On the other end are children's candies: the advance singles 'ME!' and 'You need to calm down' (and his 'twin sister', 'I forgot that you existed', with which the album opens), more of colorines the first and more of disco at 'baby' the second, where Taylor claims herself leaving some reflection on the dirty and ugly world behind the smiles and the 'stories'. In the middle, a bunch of songs that end up becoming a ball , with some exceptions: 'Cruel summer', composed with St. Vincent and guitarist Jack Antonoff (Fun), Swift's right hand in this project; or 'Cornelia Street' and 'Death by a thousand cuts'.

Taylor looks at herself and also looks at the rest of the pretty pop songwriters of the time ( Carly, Ariana Grande, Katey Musgraves ) to reappropriate (with a smile, of course) the pop throne.

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