While the summer of has been dubbed "The Summer of Swift," the craze for the pop star shows no sign of slowing down—as evidenced by the excitement around the release of her Eras Tour film on October 13 Swift's iconic favorite number. The film, which is a three-and-a-half-hour-long master class in pop performance not to mention stamina, documents 44 songs, 10 albums, and nearly 20 years of Swift's career.
For new Swifties, however, there might be an intimidating barrier to entry: the Lover House set piece. While anyone can memorize song lyrics, track the order of her exes, and judge her current boyfriend's place , the lore and Easter eggs Taylor Swift loves to share with fans are harder to follow.
The Lover House is one such obstacle. When the Lover album was first released in , no one would've guessed that a single image from its title track's music video would go on to feature in three additional albums and a worldwide stadium tour. However, the Lover House was a major backdrop throughout the Eras Tour.
Onstage, it appears to be empty, as if Swift has moved out. She burns it down during "Bad Blood" and exits through the orange front door at the end of the show. It may be a fictional piece of Swift's real estate portfolio , but true fans need to understand the meaning of the Lover House because it's likely to come up many more times in her career.
Read on for an in-depth explainer of what the rooms in the Lover House mean and more details you need to know before you watch the Eras Tour film. First seen in the music video for Swift's seventh album's title track, "Lover," the Lover House is a home inside a snow globe gifted to a child for Christmas.
