Swift and her collaborators try some real doozies: Pop-punk marriage proposal “Paper Rings” has a key change borrowed from the Shangri-Las and more than a little acoustic guitar in the mix. “I Think He Knows” sounds like Carly Rae Jepsen “The Archer” sounds like Lorde’s “Supercut” “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince,” actually a Joel Little joint, sounds like Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die. And with Antonoff behind so much of the sound of pop music in the latter half of the decade, the bold, ’80s-inspired style isn’t inherently more interesting or varied than any other. Rihanna or Robyn might intend their new music to sound entirely fresh Swift, our most conventional pop star, builds atop what has worked already. Is it the prickly cotton-candy production or the lyrical detail or the vocal echo or just the event album-ness of it all that keeps Lover in the foreground, song after song? With the possible exception of the steel drums on music-box oddball “It’s Nice to Have a Friend,” the album never claims any new ground some of its best moments are unavoidably familiar. It comes off as throat-clearing, but it opens a stretch of drama-free delights, like the magnetic pink glow of “Cruel Summer” (“I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you!”) and the crystal-ball clarity of “The Archer,” with its elegant, Chromatics-esque synthesizer build and self-aware regret: “I cut off my nose just to spite my face/And I hate my reflection for years and years.” The exception is undercooked gender-equality anthem “The Man,” a song that hilariously, unironically points to Leonardo DiCaprio’s playboy image as the height of masculine privilege, and proves that other people shouldn’t write Kesha songs. Opener “I Forgot That You Existed” is a hopscotch rhythm set to a rhyme like you’d leave in your nemesis’ yearbook if you were really being honest-which is to say, it doesn’t sound like she forgot for one second. Lover’s emotional peaks and valleys are higher and deeper than reputation, where romance played out under a long shadow of doubt.
It’s bright and fun and occasionally cloying. She’s 29, but she still writes metaphors about prom dresses and homecoming queens. She uses the word “shade” twice, up from once on reputation.
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Sometimes it attempts to honor Swift’s entire artistic journey at once: The waltzing “Lover,” full of fiddle and fairytale weddings, harks back to the Old Taylor “I Think He Knows” is a thumping electro-pop shout-out to Nashville’s Music Row. Produced mostly with ubiquitous pop whisperer Jack Antonoff, it’s full of low-lying synthesizer pulses and reverbed beats that can feel more like scaffolding than full songs. An example of a situation where it would be a bad idea to act on a crush is if your crush is already with someone else.Lover nods to 2017’s reputation, but in spirit, it’s the sequel to the synth-pop glitter of 1989. On the other hand, if you really don't want to open up about your crush or you have good reason to think it's a bad idea, you shouldn't ever feel like you need to.Usually he would accept that and try to keep things as normal as they were before whilst deciding his next move. Try explaining to him that you don't want to ruin the friendship and you wouldn't like it to be awkward.
In other words, you won't be wondering, "What would have happened if I had talked to my crush?" in a few weeks. It also lets you avoid nagging feelings of regret. Being open about your crush can feel like taking a huge weight off your chest - no matter what happens, you were true to your heart.
You get to either take things to the next level with your crush or start moving on, but either way you don't have to worry about it anymore. Making a decision can be scary, but it gives you closure. Being undecided about a crush is a terrible feeling. Sooner or later, you need to commit to either talking to your crush about the way you feel or staying silent. Decide whether you will admit your crush.