the chorus of men saying “eyyy” when she says “they would toast to me, oh, let the players play” mocking bro culture, the windshield wipers and car locking noise at the end of cornelia street representing where the whole thing began, the way strings come in in the bridge of lover representing a wedding orchestra cause she’s making her vows, the way she has backing vocals on daylight come in progressively louder throughout the song showing how she came to the realization, the way false god production is so stripped back because it’s an intimate conversation between her and her lover, the way afterglow production is slow but intense because it’s a crucial moment where she’s admitting wrongdoing, the way “I see right through me” echoes in other parts of the song representing intrusive thoughts, the production on miss americana mimicking a marching band during the bridge because she’s doing a cheer, the electronic voice in cruel summer saying “you’re right, I want it” because she can’t stop thinking about it, the way the piano riff in death by a thousand cuts sounds like an actual flickering chandelier, the way she used a childrens choir on it’s nice to have a friend and it sounds like a childhood rhyme because it’s telling the story of a lifelong friendship/relationship, the “OH!s” during the prechorus of paper rings...the production details on lover