Taylor Swift

The singer-songwriter's 10th studio album returns to the pop sound she left in 2019, and explores a familiar subject: how she is perceived, and how she ...

[rerecordings of her old albums](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/arts/music/taylor-swift-rerecord-albums.html), an offshoot of the ownership battles spurred by the sale of her old masters. There are songs on “Midnights” — “Midnight Rain,” “Lavender Haze” — that suggest an awareness of the ways Drake and the Weeknd have deployed overcast mood in their vocal and musical production, though she rarely commits. Of the new songs, only “Glitch” and “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” aren’t subtractive.) Which all prompts the question of where Swift might go as a midcareer pop star, if she were to pivot once more. “Midnights” feels like a sonic place holder, with stadiums in mind. The fleet, breezy and lightly damp “Lavender Haze” includes some sweet singing, though it feels overly reminiscent of the thumping digital folk of Maggie Rogers’s [Jack Antonoff](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/arts/music/jack-antonoff-bleachers-lorde-interview.html), constrains her voice. Throughout the album, on songs like “You’re On Your Own, Kid” and “Maroon,” Swift’s vocals are stacked together to the point of suffocation. “Snow on the Beach,” a collaboration with fellow Great American Songwriter Lana Del Rey, begins with light Christmas music energy and never really ascends. But she also thrives when writing about “Taylor Swift” — the idea, the metanarrative, the character. “Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism, like some kind of congressman?” Swift muses on “Anti-Hero,” an eerily shimmering Kate Bush-esque number that’s one of the album’s high points. [Taylor Swift](https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/taylor-swift) has always been at her best when writing about Taylor Swift — she is diaristically pinpoint, a ruthless excavator of her own internal tugs of war.

Taylor Swift's track 17 on "Midnights," "High Infidelity," has Swifties searching for where the singer was on April 29 after a lyric referenced the date.

Swift went out shopping on April 29, 2014, according to photos from her outing. On this day in 2018, Swift posted a photo of herself rehearsing for her upcoming tour. Could this be an Easter egg that she's finally going on tour again? She wore a one-shoulder, black sparkly dress to the party in Los Angeles. [new single](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkQ4T5WO9E) with Rihanna: "This Is What You Came For." Swift originally shared the photos, but has since deleted the post.

Taylor Swift has released her 10th album, Midnights, after weeks of hints. The 13-track album includes “Snow On the Beach,” which features Lana del Rey, ...

Swift appears in the [songwriting credits](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-song-writers-credits-zoe-kravitz.html) for every song on Midnights and teamed up with [minion](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/diana-ross-tame-impala-minions-soundtrack.html)/collaborator Jack Antonoff for most of the album. Swift has sorted her discography into [three different vibes](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/taylor-swift-fountain-quill-glitter-gel-pen-playlists-apple-music.html): fountain pen, quill pen, and glitter-gel pen. Over the past two months, she revealed her track-list titles through [surprisingly straightforward TikToks](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/taylor-swift-introducing-midnights-track-names-on-tiktok.html). [Midnights](http://www.vulture.com/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-theories-clues-tiktok.html) o’clock. [Described](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1564100815069106176/photo/2) by the singer as “a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams,” Midnights was first [announced](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/taylor-swift-new-album-release-date.html) during Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards in August. After a monthslong wait, [Taylor Swift](https://www.vulture.com/article/all-taylor-swift-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html) has dropped her tenth studio album.

Taylor Swift revealed very little about her 10th studio album, “Midnights,” before it was released on Friday – she didn't sit for any interviews and just ...

In “Anti-Hero,” that honor went to the line, “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby / And I’m a monster on the hill.” This was a new level of candor from an album that, as [multiple critics](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/taylor-swift-review-midnights-lyrics-b2207166.html) agreed in [early reviews](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-midnights-1234611211/), was pretty dark music for Swift. “I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror. “Not to sound too dark, but, like, I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person.” But you know, this song really is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself. [usual cryptic hints](https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/20/taylor-swift-midnights-easter-eggs/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) about what fans could expect.

Taylor Swift has released seven extra songs to coincide with a surprise special edition of her latest album 'Midnights'.

I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. The pop icon shared a link to stream the special edition album and further explained the concept: "I'm calling them 3am tracks. The 'Anti-Hero' songstress wrote: "Surprise!

Critics praise the "fantastic songs" on Midnights, but some add there is "not a smash hit in sight".

On the twinkly Bejeweled she announces that she's "going out tonight", but the beats remain sleepy and sluggish. Swift's always as elusive as she is allusive." Swift is currently gearing up for a busy few months. Otherwise Midnights sounds ready for bed." All the while she keeps things just cryptic enough to keep the tension crackling and the speculation buzzing. But it also sees her re-engage her pop sensibilities, with lyrics that explore more personal subject matters. "As Swift has returned to her archive for to undertake the project of re-recording her previous albums, it's clear slipping back into her past self has unlocked something brilliant and fresh in her songwriting," she wrote. "The subtle melodies of Midnights take time to sink their claws in," she added. "But Swift's feline vocal stealth and assured lyrical control ensure she keeps your attention. [the Guardian's Alexis Petridis said](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/21/taylor-swift-midnights-review-small-hours-pop-rich-with-self-loathing-and-stereotype-smashing) Midnights "delivers her firmly from what she called the 'folklorian woods' of her last two albums back to electronic pop". Midnights is the 32-year-old's first original album in two years and sees her return to a more mainstream sound than the more muted, acoustic tone of her previous two albums. The Guardian said Midnights is a "cool, collected and mature" record which is "packed with fantastic songs".

Ranking the swearist lines in Taylor Swift's new album Midnights which contains some of her strongest curse words including shit, fuck, damn, and cheap-ass.

The lean-back rhythm of her patter here is Taylor trying on her most world-weary “I’m washed” posture on the album. Taylor puts a “fuckin’” right in the center of this album’s biggest singsong pop chorus, pacing out words like a metronome so that she has to hit both syllables of “fuck-in” hard (and, yes, there’s no “g”). Okay, now we’re fucking — though, really, we’re only fuckin’ because Taylor is resistant to ever pronouncing the “g” at the end of the word. [inspired by Mad Men](https://www.nme.com/news/music/taylor-swift-reveals-mad-men-inspiration-behind-midnights-track-lavender-haze-3327307) (a show that is primarily set in the ’60s, but whatever), which puts Taylor in the position of a sort of Betty Draper raging against the feminist mystique or something. She’s easing up to the bolder swears later on in the album. And for all of her use of “fucking,” she tends to only use swears as intensifiers, not as descriptors of actually explicit acts.

Taylor Swift's brand new album Midnights was released today (October 21) and fans are obsessed with the eighth song Vigilant S**t.

This has to be one of her best works yet.” I don’t dress for friends And I don’t dress for villains Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge I don’t dress for men I don’t dress for women

U.S. music superstar Taylor Swift released her 10th studio album "Midnights" on Friday, as well as additional tracks made during the record making process.

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Taylor Swift: Here's where you can stream all of the new 13+ 7 new songs from the new 'Midnights' album.

Taylor Swift fans trying to listen to the nem album will have a lot of options. The album also has 7 new bonus tracks. Titled ‘Midnights’, the album was announced back in August this year and has now launched with 13 tracks that reportedly tell the stories of as many sleepless nights that the artist has had over the years.

Spotify app crash was reported by fans when Taylor Swift released her 10th studio album 'Midnights'. Thousands on Spotify reported an outage as Taylor ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). As a result, Swifties should have no trouble listening to Midnights on Spotify. Several Spotify users claimed that the program frequently failed on [Android](/topic/android)and iOS, locking them out of their subscriptions. [India](/topic/india), according to [Downdetector.com](/topic/downdetector-com). According to statistics from Downdetector at the point of publication, Spotify appears to function normally now. What is the name of the new album by Taylor Swift?

The singer-songwriter's 10th studio album is a return to the pop pipeline, with production from her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff.

Target, which has had a long relationship with Swift, has its own exclusive LP version (on “lavender” vinyl) as well as a CD with three exclusive tracks. The most ingenious or shameless part — take your pick — of Swift’s vinyl strategy is what she has done with the back covers. In a sense, “Midnights” is Swift’s return to the pop pipeline after her digressions of the past couple of years. Swift is releasing four standard versions of “Midnights” on vinyl, each with its own disc color and cover art; they also correspond to four variant CD versions. Swift’s friendship with Kravitz, as fans know, is close enough that she once acted as an [uncredited assistant](https://wwd.com/business-news/media/nyt-great-performers-2020-list-tv-tiktok-michaela-coel-sarah-cooper-1234672957/) on a pandemic-era remote photo shoot of Kravitz for The New York Times Magazine. [kitschy videos](https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorswift/video/7147533441326648618?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1) on TikTok that revealed song titles, one at time, taken from Ping-Pong balls in a basket, as if on a decades-old local TV spot. [making an album with Antonoff](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a39035654/zoe-kravitz-interview-march-2022/), is listed as one of the six songwriters of the first track, “Lavender Haze,” alongside Swift, Antonoff, Mark Anthony Spears (a.k.a. But an important factor in the sales and chart prospects for “Midnights” may be Swift’s embrace of physical music formats like CDs and vinyl LPs, which, because of the way Billboard crunches data about how music is consumed, can have a major impact on chart positions. Swift’s marketing this time has involved a series of “I find myself running home to your sweet nothings.” “Folklore” won The marbled vinyl has been pressed and sorted into collectible variants.

Featuring 13 songs and collaborations, Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' was released on 21 October and marks her 10th studio album.

The announcement of “ She said, “And I guess theoretically when you’re in the lavender haze, you’ll do anything to stay there and not let people bring you down off of that cloud.” With Midnights, it’s a return to the pop genre for her. She also shared a video revealing that if one collects all four album covers, it actually turns into a clock when arranged in a square. She calls it one of her favourites that she’s written so far. “Karma” “Question…?” “Anti-Hero” Since August, Swift slowly trickled down information and released small snippets of what the music album would be like. “Maroon” Swift dropped hints over the last couple of months but had essentially remained tight-lipped about the songs and tracklist. Just when curious fans were up for yet another re-recording of her old albums, she announced her 10th studio album Midnights at the 2022 VMA Awards on 28 August.

In the lead-up to the release of “Midnights,” Taylor Swift herself said this 10th record of hers was inspired by haunting late-night thoughts and, ...

(Laura Dern, the Haim sisters and Swift wrote and directed the video, which follows a Swift tortured by monsters like ghosts, bathroom scales and judgey people at parties. There is a moment of silliness about midway through, after a verse in which Swift sings about a dream she had about a future daughter-in-law who kills her for money, but Swift left her out of her will.

The first of Taylor Swift's Midnights' music videos is here, just 8 hours after the album's release. True to her schedule, Swift released “Anti-Hero” at 8 ...

“When I was 15 and putting together my first album, I wanted to recreate the experience I used to have for my fans in a reimagined approach. “I thought that I was supposed to feel like I was going to pass out at the end of a show, or in the middle of it,” she said in the film. [said in her Miss Americana documentary](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a30652074/taylor-swift-overcoming-eating-disorder/), “[Although] it’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it,” there have been times in the past when Swift has seen “a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or…someone said that I looked pregnant…and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit—just stop eating.” She added that the eating disorder affected her on her 1989 tour. True to [her schedule](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a41647575/taylor-swift-midnights-release-week-schedule-spoilers/), Swift released the [“Anti-Hero”](https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a41727143/taylor-swift-anti-hero-lyrics-meaning-joe-alwyn/) visuals at 8 A.M. The Chicks ‘Fly’ album was my favorite because their photos depicted all the meanings of the word ‘fly’ in very theatrical ways.” The song, which [explores one of the album's themes, “self-loathing,”](https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a41013043/taylor-swift-midnights-album-release-date-news-singles-tour/) pits Swift against her own dark side.

The first video from Midnights depicts a raucous night out with Swift, herself, and all her insecurities.

Scooter Braun, the record executive behind the sale of Swift’s catalog, said in September that he [regrets](https://pitchfork.com/news/scooter-braun-says-he-would-have-handled-taylor-swift-catalog-acquisition-differently/) how the situation was handled. [Midnights (3am Edition)](https://pitchfork.com/news/taylor-swift-releases-7-new-songs-just-hours-after-new-album-midnights-listen/) at 3 a.m. [Midnights](https://pitchfork.com/news/taylor-swift-releases-new-album-midnights-listen-and-read-the-full-credits/), [Taylor Swift](https://pitchfork.com/artists/28495-taylor-swift/) has released the music video for “Anti-Hero.” In the visual, which you can watch below, Swift contends with all the neuroses and anxieties described in the song, helped along by her anti-hero, also played by Swift.

Taylor Swift's 10th studio album, Midnights, was introduced to us. “This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night.

There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13. I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. The floors we pace and the demons we face.”

Taylor Swift has released many music videos, but here's a look at all the ones she directed herself.

Forever grateful to my incredible DP @the_rinayang and our amazing crew.” “Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time. “I needed 10 years of retrospect in order to know what I would even make to tell a version of that story visually.” He’s unbelievably talented and it was so amazing to have him in the Lover music video!” “It would be committing to making a film and I feel like I would absolutely love for the right opportunity to arise, because I absolutely adore telling stories this way.” Ever since she first took the plunge of overseeing the visual for her Lover single “The Man” in 2019, though, more of her music videos than not have been directed entirely by the country-turned-pop star herself.

New album makes it clear that Swift has taken a step forward in the indie-pop genre.

But Swift presents “Midnights” as something different: a collection of songs that don’t necessarily have to go together, but fit together because she has declared them products of late night inspiration. Track one, “Lavender Haze,” pairs a muffled club beat and high-pitched backing vocals from Antonoff with stand-out, beckoning melody from Swift. And like always, we’re just along for the thrilling late-night ride. [the 13 tracks of “Midnights,”](https://apnews.com/article/what-to-stream-October-2022-midnights-music-movies-TV-f70b362a01e904e5b23adeb62c822dd0) a self-aware Swift shows off her ability to evolve again. “Midnight Rain” could be a thesis statement for the project she’s described as songs written during “13 sleepless nights,” an appropriate approach to the concept album for someone who has long had a lyrical appreciation for late nights (think “Style”: “midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights…”). The song’s chorus begins: “He was sunshine, I was midnight rain.” And continues: “He wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain.

Taylor Swift is out here trolling her future children in the music video for "Anti-Hero."

I'm the problem, it's me (I'm the problem, it's me) [described it on Twitter](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1583429735480451072) as watching "my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time." On top of releasing Midnights at midnight, [Taylor dropped seven unexpected bonus tracks at 3:00 am](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a41732337/best-tweets-taylor-swift-7-more-songs-midnights/) (what is sleep?), and then gave us the "Anti-Hero" music video at 8:00 am.

On the heels of her highly anticipated album 'Midnights' and the world premiere of her new music video for “Anti-Hero,” fans around the world can now visit ...

Swift also has five music videos in YouTube’s Billion Views Club, two of which (“ [Shake It Off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM)” and “ [Blank Space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg)”) are part of a small group of videos to have crossed the 3 billion views mark. For the first time ever, Swift is inviting her fans around the world to share their anti-heroic traits to the soundtrack of the newly released track, “ [Anti-Hero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kbLwvqugk),” only on YouTube Shorts. Her music has charted on YouTube’s Top Songs chart in over 50 markets, and her recent release of [“All Too Well [10 Minute Version] (Taylor’s Version)”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tollGa3S0o8) peaked at #1 on the Global and US charts. Once you’re ready, head over to YouTube Shorts to start your own #TSAntiHeroChallenge creation and follow these simple steps: An anti-heroic trait could be as simple as always grabbing the last slice of pizza, clapping at the end of movies, always putting your feet on the car dashboard, using the same word to start your daily Wordle, leaving your clean laundry in the basket until the next time you do it, pretending you didn’t already watch the next episode of the series you watch with your pals, or even treating your cat like a human. The #TSAntiHeroChallenge is inspired by one of Swift’s favorite songs ever written, track #3 on her new album.

Taylor Swift has released her new album titled Midnight. The music video for Anti-Hero is also out.

The music video for it was also released on Friday. Meanwhile Snow On The Beach features singer Lana Del Rey, a singer Swift said she had long admired. [Taylor Swift](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/taylor-swift) released her 10th studio album Midnights on Friday, as well as additional tracks made during the record making process. The Shake It Off and Bad Blood singer also took to Instagram overnight to reveal that while Midnights is a complete concept album "of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour" - she loves sharing her creative process with fans and has dropped additional songs that didn't make the record. The music video for Anti-Hero is also out. Taylor Swift releases new album Midnights, music video for Anti-Hero.

Her 10th album is a culmination of 16 years in the spotlight, and Taylor Swift leaves nothing unsaid.

Like a knife to the gut, “Anti-Hero” is an instant self-hate anthem for the ages. Swift is cut open, bleeding to the world in this song, proclaiming herself a “monster” in a sea of “sexy babies” (it makes sense, trust us). I’m the problem, it’s me”

Taylor Swift moves away from the experimental magic of folklore and evermore and delivers a giddy, self-reflective crusade with Midnights.

After multiple listens—and wishing that the 3 AM songs were part of the core album—it’s evident she embraces the chaos (what’s new, right?). The album illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of the Swift-Antonoff partnership—the duo tends to “regress” every so often but knows how to tap into their forte, too. As it turns out, Midnights is an eccentric blend of [Lover](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-is-done-proving-herself-on-the-resonant-lo-1837578581) and [1989](https://www.avclub.com/with-1989-taylor-swift-finally-grows-up-1798181732), with a dose of [Reputation](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-has-a-big-drunken-night-out-on-reputation-1820342108)’s retribution for good measure. There are more gems here like, “I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror / It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero,” and the polarizing line, “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby.” ( On three of the tracks, she collaborates with The National’s Aaron Dessner yet again, including on “The Great War,” which features poetic imagery and lyrics about surviving the battlefield of a tumultuous bond and is enhanced by Dessner’s production. And then there’s “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve,” a fiery but tragic indictment of the older man she dated at 19 who took advantage of her naïveté. An early standout, it charts her exhaustion from giving in to her worst thoughts and impulses (“When my depression works the graveyard shift / All of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room / I should not be left to my own devices”). The singer’s “sleepless nights” have spawned an odyssey that’s cutthroat and shimmery. Swift opens Midnights with “Lavender Haze,” a definite bop that celebrates her unperturbed love life (reminiscent of “Call It What You Want To).” And she closes the core album with a pair of tracks that cleverly confirm her relationship, starting with track 12, the amorous ballad “Sweet Nothing,” co-written by Swift and William Bowery (Joe Alwyn’s pseudonym). [Taylor Swift revealed she categorizes her lyrics](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-new-insight-songwriting-process-1849562389) in three distinct ways: Quill, fountain pen, and glitter gel pen, conjuring the perfect weapon to rousingly convey her words. That’s immediately followed by track 13, “Mastermind,” in which a Machiavellian Swift confesses her schemes to secure his love. That’s not a complaint, of course, because Swift is the certified queen of serving up bangers.

Taylor Swift's new album, "Midnights," is finally here. Here's the meaning behind the lyrics of "Maroon" and why fans think it's about her ex, ...

This means that her partner potentially thought the relationship was more than it was meant to be. [Taylor and Tom dancing at the 2016 Met Gala](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5awYllF2qFg) In "Maroon," she uses darker shades of red to describe the nature of the relationship as her perception has likely changed as she grew older. The scene she paints about losing track of time may also be parallel to the "All Too Well" short film where Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien's characters play cards and goof around near the fireplace.As we learned in the 10-minute version of "All Too Well" and its accompanying short film, Taylor and Jake's whirlwind romance evoked a lot of different emotions that she personified through the color red. The incense and vinyl shelf may also be a reference to his living conditions during the time of their relationship. Once the clock struck 12 on October 21, Twitter was set ablaze with fans' live reactions to Midnights.

Lyrically, Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights, is as Swiftian as ever, meaning sometimes it's hard to tell what the hell she's talking about through all ...

She’s had plenty of musician boyfriends (Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris), and this could be about any of them, though I sincerely hope it’s not Styles — he has [enough drama](https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/olivia-wilde-jason-sudeikis-salad-dressing.html) for the time being. This is the chorus of “Maroon,” to which I say, Taylor, where are your shoes? This is on the song “Karma,” which, well, you can probably guess what it’s about. I appreciate that Taylor threw an encouraging little lyric into the album’s last song, “Mastermind,” even though it kind of sounds like something a Disney villain would say. There are too many specific references here for them to be random, but the studious Swifties on Reddit will have to decode it for me. Here, Taylor is threatening her rude boyfriend that she will go out and flirt with someone who appreciates her more, but I feel I must warn her that any dude talking about auras is not going to be a better option. You can really see the thesaurus coming in handy here. I strongly suspect Swift had a thesaurus on hand while writing, because the range of vocabulary on display is truly impressive. I hope she’s found some more uplifting parties where the guests support her dreams. Nowhere in New York is it safe or sanitary to stand, let alone dance, without shoes on. [history](https://thecut.com/2021/11/where-the-hell-is-taylor-swifts-scarf.html) that her songs almost always have specific reference points, many of them from her life. In its first 24 hours of existence, Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, has given us a lot to chew on.

The best lyrics on Taylor Swift's Midnights, based on her five feelings she had when writing the album: self-loathing, fantasizing about revenge, ...

Since the track was announced, people were quick to make connections to last year’s Swift release, Red (Taylor’s Version), as she describes the various shades of red, all in a darker hue. Swift challenges the antiquated ideas of weddings here, addressing the “ She pokes fun at those criticisms by calling karma “her boyfriend,” her longest relationship to date. For someone who isn’t afraid to write songs about those important in her life, Swift shows a new vulnerability by being too afraid of admitting that she’s falling in love. She references her eating disorder that she revealed during her Miss Americana Netflix documentary, able to see her destructive behavior with larger clarity as a 32-year-old woman. It is our time to rise up and ask them a million questions knowing the answers will be painful no matter what. Swift has been battling marriage rumors almost as long as she’s been battling serial dater rumors. (Though careful, Taylor, with how you phrase it; you don’t want to become a meme like The ideal night of swimming in your own sadness and pity definitely includes calling yourself a narcissist and then considering every nice thing you’ve ever done a big evil scheme to make you look like a good person. Assuming this song is about her feud with Scooter Braun, she’s taking no prisoners by bringing up his divorce and Sexy baby has to be an inside joke, right? [has finally arrived](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-album-stream.html) and encapsulated all of our late-night thoughts.

With the release of Taylor Swift's 'Midnights,' her sleuthing fans think there are veiled swipes at John Mayer, Scooter Braun and Kanye West.

West’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, backed him, [claiming Swift was contacted](https://www.gq.com/story/kim-kardashian-west-gq-cover-story) and “totally gave the OK” for West to use that lyric. Another line says, “And she looks so pretty / Driving in your Benz.” We love, adore and respect a petty Taylor Swift.” [tweeted](https://twitter.com/TheTitanBaddie/status/1583362899468509184). That could be the “white-collar crimes” Swift references. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/sarahjenkinsxo/status/1583314452883001345). I made that b— famous.” It was a really lousy thing for her to do,” he said, adding, “As a songwriter ... Of the 20 tracks Swift just released, “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” is the 19th and released now that she is 32. She goes on to sing, “And if I was some paint, did it splatter on a promising grown man? [tweeted](https://twitter.com/letabknow/status/1583448097774239746). The latest objects of their speculation?

Taylor Swift's latest album “Midnights” has dropped, and it might be setting a new standard for China's digital music industry. Within a day of its release, ...

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Taylor Swift invites fans into the darkest part of her psyche in the "Anti-Hero" music video, starring John Early, Mike Birbiglia, and Mary Elizabeth Ellis.

[Midnight Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYZFOPgesg)”). In one scene of the video, her partying pop star alter ego gives a scolding shake of the head as she steps on a scale that reads “FAT.” Later, on the track “ [You’re On Your Own, Kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cboN_o7CvU),” Swift sings, “I hosted parties and starved my body,” referencing the eating disorder she first disclosed in her documentary [Miss Americana](http://avclub.com/film/reviews/miss-americana-2020). On “Anti-Hero,” there’s something tragic about being too big to fail (“Pierced through the heart, but never killed”). “I wake up screaming from dreaming / One day, I’ll watch as you’re leaving / And life will lose all its meaning,” she sings. “I struggle with the idea that my life has become unmanageably sized,” she says in that same Instagram video. [Anti-Hero](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-mad-men-midnights-track-inspiration-1849642378?_ga=2.198626031.1966672911.1666014527-1488648406.1652714420)” it becomes clear that the person she’s really desperate to have stay by her side is us, the audience. “This song is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself.” “I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person,” Swift admits in an [that make me, ](https://youtu.be/TjLVEs9LHpw?t=149) [me](https://youtu.be/TjLVEs9LHpw?t=149),” as Swift herself would say: glitter, cats, multiple Taylors, an elaborately staged funeral, lots of wine. Club’s Saloni Gajjar writes in her [B+ review](https://www.avclub.com/a-review-of-taylor-swifts-album-midnights-1849681836), “Midnights is a giddy, buoyant, somewhat messy return to pop; a heartbreaking confessional gift wrapped with confetti.” It includes “all the things [Taylor Swift](https://www.avclub.com/taylor-swift-underrated-songs-obscure-tracks-1849666689?_ga=2.128354380.1966672911.1666014527-1488648406.1652714420) album is upon us, and the world has descended into Midnights mayhem.

New album makes it clear that Swift has taken a step forward in the indie-pop genre.

But Swift presents “Midnights” as something different: a collection of songs that don’t necessarily have to go together, but fit together because she has declared them products of late night inspiration. Track one, “Lavender Haze,” pairs a muffled club beat and high-pitched backing vocals from Antonoff with stand-out, beckoning melody from Swift. And like always, we’re just along for the thrilling late-night ride. [the 13 tracks of “Midnights,”](https://apnews.com/article/what-to-stream-October-2022-midnights-music-movies-TV-f70b362a01e904e5b23adeb62c822dd0) a self-aware Swift shows off her ability to evolve again. “Midnight Rain” could be a thesis statement for the project she’s described as songs written during “13 sleepless nights,” an appropriate approach to the concept album for someone who has long had a lyrical appreciation for late nights (think “Style”: “midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights…”). The song’s chorus begins: “He was sunshine, I was midnight rain.” And continues: “He wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain.

A pop phenomenon and lyric wizard once said, “Karma is real.” That was Taylor Swift in 2016 when asked by Vogue what she believed to be the most important.

[“Karma”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1imWezhl2T0) is about an unbothered state of mind. “All I started thinking of was, ‘How do I hint at things, like how far is too far in advance?,” Swift said. After all, Swift [did say,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0RzZGpyds) “The world moves on … (In The idea of “Karma” has an outsize place in the Taylor Swift universe, thanks to a prevalent fan theory. It’s just a question Swifties have been asking for years now. “Can I hint at something three years in advance? [initially revealed](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch1Ed_Su6Qw/) her 10th studio album would explore the subjects and thoughts of sleepless nights across her life. This album would have come between “1989” and “Reputation.” Instead, fans think it was replaced with “Reputation.” but not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma.” [“The Man” ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqAJLh9wuZ0)from her “Lover” album/ [Blake Lively re-creating “The Man” wall scene](https://www.instagram.com/p/CWUo4ayAnzd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link) on the set of the “I Bet You Think About Me” music video to mischievously laughing when revealing the title of the track during her [“Midnights Mayhem With Me”](https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorswift/video/7151244297432665390?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7153338511659959854) series.

Swift's Midnights swiftly unseated Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti for most Spotify streams in 24 hours.

Truly, it’s (Taylor’s Version), and we’re just living in it. Spotify didn’t release specific numbers for Midnights and its one-day performance, but we do know who Swift unseated to score the honor: Bad Bunny, whose Un Verano Sin Ti posted its own record, with 183 million day-one streams, back in September of 2021. Guinness says Red scored 90.8 million streams during its first 24 hours on Spotify back in 2021, which means Midnights has blown way past that number today.)

Taylor Swift's 10th album 'Midnights', marking a gradual return to pop for the US singer-songwriter, sparked an online fan frenzy following its witching ...

In 'Midnights', which includes the smooth vocals of Lana Del Rey in the duet 'Snow on the Beach', Swift evokes a certain dreamy mystique, complete with nighttime ruminations -- her reflections on growing older and the complications of love. The pop sound marks a departure from 'Evermore' and 'Folklore', her two previous albums which were written during the pandemic, the latter of which won Album of the Year at the 2021 Grammys. Taylor Swift's 10th album 'Midnights', marking a gradual return to pop for the US singer-songwriter, sparked an online fan frenzy following its witching hour release on Friday -- and crashed Spotify in the process.

Indeed, Swift's tune "Vigilante Shit" seems to draw on some similar inspiration, with a verse featuring lyrics about delivering "cold hard proof" to another nameless character's ex-wife, saying, "Now she gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride," ...

That's because the artist's latest album, Midnights, happens to include an homage to [revenge dressing](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/g39128561/revenge-dress-meaning-history-princess-diana-julia-fox/)—an art perhaps most iconically associated with Princess Diana when the royal all but single-handedly brought the [concept of the revenge dress](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/a36120274/princess-diana-revenge-glamour-trend/) into our cultural lexicon in 1994, with the little black dress seen around the world. That infamous LBD—an off-the-shoulder Christina Stambolian gown that hugged the Princess of Wales flawlessly—was worn just days after Prince Charles admitted to infidelity on national television, and was seen by the public as a very pointed snub to Diana's then-husband. It's not the first time Swift has been linked in the public mind with Diana's famous dress—fans previously noticed a marked similarity between the gown and a dress that the singer-songwriter wore on a November 2021 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers when she was promoting her version of the album Red.

Star thanks fans for helping new release, Midnights, break record for most-streamed album in a single day.

this is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators,” she wrote. In a post on her Instagram to mark the album’s release, she shared a photo of herself with her collaborators, and singled out Antonoff as her “co-pilot”. Taylor Swift has thanked her fans for “doing something mind blowing” as her new LP broke the Spotify record for most-streamed album in a single day.

Despite satisfying die-hard Swifties, like everyone's midnight thoughts, 'Midnights' lacks clarity and cohesion as it tries to latch on to pieces of Taylor ...

Her voice manages to soothe, while her lyrics (finally) manage to pull at the heartstrings that come with the confusion and then the clarity that comes with the end of a relationship. For die-hard Swifties, the album gives enough to make them cry a little, laugh a little, light a candle and look out at the night’s sky. Hoping for an improvement, and a dose of the stabbing pain of heartbreak, comes one of the most hyped songs on the album Snow on the Beach, featuring one of music’s original sad girls, Lana Del Rey. In a time when self-love and positivity tutorials are shoved down our throats, the song could have been a fresh take on her battle with herself. The album has a promising start with Lavender Haze and Maroon; the former having a synth-pop base, layered with smooth lyrics encapsulating the speculation that swirls around (really, all of her relationships) but in this case, her six-year old relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. Her raw emotions in classic albums like Fearless and Red were able to evoke the emotions — good or bad — that you felt in your gut.