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TAYLOR SWIFT-LOVER

(album out 23 August)

Taylor Swift might be a divisive figure in the LGBTQ community, but there’s no denying she has the ability to craft fanfuckingtastic pop music. The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter’s seventh studio album, Lover, feels like an optimistic departure from her previous effort, reputation, which saw the star hit out at her various critics (Look What You Made Me Do being a prime example). Although Lover hits similar territory at times - as evidenced in future LGBTQ anthem You Need to Calm Down - it’s much more bubbly. There isn’t as many Max Martin-produced bops as reputation or 1989, but trust us when we say this album is filled to the brim with earworms. Could it become her fifth consecutive album to sell over one million copies in