It's the most unexpected song on taylorswift13's Lover
-- right before the affirmative conclusion of "Daylight," and just after a three-song run that includes the album's two advance singles, "You Need to Calm Down" and "ME!" -- "Friend" slinks by unassumingly, like the seventh-grader trying to make themselves invisible so they won't get called on in algebra. At 2:30, it's the shortest song on the album -- it's the shortest song on Taylor Swift album, in fact.
But despite these aims at inconspicuousness , "It's Nice to Have a Friend" is the most captivating song on , that punctuates with commas and ellipses rather than exclamation marks and hard periods, and its delicate, crystalline beauty is unlike anything we've heard from Swift before. It's also the most unexpected song on the album -- sonically, lyrically and structurally. The production's ghostly combination of choral backing vocals, gently gleaming steel drums and tenderly plucked harps is simultaneously comforting and unsettling, like the final scene of a slasher movie where maybe everything's finally all right, or maybe the knife is coming for the surprise death blow.
The effect of all of this is to give "Friend" a sense of mystery rarely found in a Taylor Swift love song.
Of course, making this song all the more improbable are the names of the other writer-producers who worked on it:
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