Episode 8: Sacred New Beginnings

Show Notes

• Lover Era
  • Color: Pink
  • Years: 2018-2020
  • Brighter
  • Political Activism
  • Rainbow
  • Miss Americana Documentary on Netflix
    • Miss Americana: The idea of being good – as the watered down version of faith…. know what you stand for and stand up have that foundation… this is why “Jesus”
  • Album released on August 23, 2019
  • First album she did not tour
    • Cancelled ‘Lover Fest’ due to Covid
  • First album she owned
    • Also when she announced that she would be re-recording her first six albums
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ellK-CXh7B4 
• Our Eras:
  • When did we first listen to this album
  • How we each defined “Lover”
• The Stories
  • @Megan
    • Praying in the Garden- The Archer (who would stay, you could stay. They see right through me/I see right through me {Peter/judas} cause all of my enemies started out as friends)
      • Matthew 26:36-39
    • Mary Magdalene- The Man (Yes!!! Gospel of Mary)
    • @Paige
      • Greatest Commandment
        • Matthew 22:34-40, Mark 12:28-34, Luke 10:25-28
      • Lazarus – soon you’ll get better 
        • John 11:38-44
      • How does Jesus respond  to criticism- calm down
      • Jesus reinterprets things (Luke 4, psalm 22 from the cross) lover and the archer
• Lover Verses
  • @Megan
    • First Listen
      • Cruel Summer 2: 38,44
        • I’m drunk in the back of the car/And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (oh)/Said, “I’m fine, ” but it wasn’t true/I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you/And I snuck in through the garden gate/Every night that summer just to seal my fate (oh)/And I screamed for whatever it’s worth/“I love you, ” ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?/He looks up grinning like a devil
      • Death By A Thousand Cuts 10:1-3
        • Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts/Flashbacks waking me up/I get drunk, but it’s not enough
    • Re-listen
      • You Need To Calm Down 14:9-11
        • But I’ve learned the lesson that stressin’/And obsessin’ ’bout somebody else is no fun/And snakes and stones never broke my bones so
      • ME! 16:15-16
        • I’m the only one of me/Baby, that’s the fun of me
  • @Paige
    • First listen
      • The man 4:9-10, 19-21
        • When everyone believes ya, what’s that like?
        • They’d say I hustled, Put in the work, the wouldn’t shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve
    • Re-listen
      • Lover – 3:33
        • At every table, I’ll save you a seat.
      • Daylight 18:44
        • Spoken at the end
        • “I want to be defined by the things that I love. Not the things I hate…you are what you love.
      • Same “ME!”
• Where is God?
  • False God (Stay-tuned for a deeper dive into false god!)
    • Led by blind faith
    • Religions in your lips, even if it’s a false god
    • We’d still worship
    • The altar is my hips
  • Soon You’ll Get Better
    • Holy orange bottles
    • Each night I pray to you 
    • Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too (first explicit reference to Jesus)
  • Cruel Summer
    • Devils roll the dice/angels roll their eyes
  • Cornelia Street
    • Sacred new beginnings, became my religion
• What would Jesus’s track 5 story be?
  • Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
    • The Archer
• What’s Next?
  • Folklore
• Sunday Question
  • Lover Jesus Story
  • Track Five Jesus Story
  • Lover Verse(s)
• Thank you! 
• PS
  • Prayer- @Paige 
  • Benediction- @Megan