Swifties are thrilled after Taylor Swift released a new song from her upcoming album, Lover, titled The Archer. The track is a departure from the first two singles she’s put out from Lover, ME! and You Need to Calm Down. The song is subdued and synthy, and packed with some pretty gut-wrenching lyrics that have made her fans really emotional and started tweeting to her after her sweet surprise came in as soon as she was nominated for 10 songs at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards.
Taylor launched the new track in the middle of an Instagram live session on Wednesday morning Australian time, she also mentioned that she had been planting teasers for The Archer throughout her music videos and other social media content for the last few months.
Interestingly, The Archer is track number five off Lover, which of course you know is not usual if you are a Taylor Swift fan and have been following her music since years now. The pop icon chooses to make the fifth song off her albums emotional, vulnerable, and deeply personal. If you remember Delicate, Dear John and All Too Well, from her previous albums, you know it’s true. And even though this was unintentional at first, Taylor later on caught on and now makes deliberate choices for her fifth tracks.
However netizens have brewed up a whole new theory behind the song and its lyrics. “I’ve been the archer, I’ve been the prey/Who could ever leave me, darling/But who could stay,” she sings in the chorus, which some fans are reading as a nod to her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. They say he is the one who has stayed with her. Some people think The Archer is a continuation of the Delicate music video, in which Taylor becomes invisible but then is seen by a mysterious guy at a bar (presumably Joe).
