Taylor Swift - Midnights

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I've looked and looked and can't see a thread on this ...

Is anyone else completely in awe of Taylor's new album? I've been listening on repeat since Friday!

Favourites so far:
Vigilante Shit

Anti-Hero

Karma

Bejewelled

Lavender Haze

Midnight Rain

Would've, could've, should've

I think she has done an amazing job on this album. I genuinely think it's a masterpiece. She just keeps getting better and better. The only songs I'm not that keen on are Maroon and Snow on the Beach.

This sounds really gushy but I'm the same age as TS (and a fan since about 2009) and I feel like this is a 'being in your 30s' album. Loving it.

Massive TS fan. I like it but the best thing she's ever done was "Folklore" imvho and nothing since has been as good - though "Evermore" was great too.

I haven’t had chance to listen to it yet! My 13 month old has been poorly so haven’t had the time, I’m so looking forward to my commute tomorrow to have a listen. I’m such a big fan and I’m so excited! I wasn’t a fan of reputation, I loved 1989 and fearless. Folklore and Evermore are just wonderful too. Everything she touches just turns to gold! @fromparistorome same, I’m a year older and I went to her first uk tour and a little Justin Bieber was supporting her and she was so unknown then, it’s crazy to think how far she’s come! Me and my friend got tickets the day before the concert, you couldn’t dream of doing that now- she’s done superbly!

Ba aware of our own embarrassment about swearing... our kids are fine with it. We are old farts....

Yes, it's great.

it isn't my favourite, but everything can't be.

i didn't realise, till today, that the Spotify crash was caused by this.

so Taylor be like - it's me, hi, 🤗I'm the problem, it's me

and that is my favourite one.

I love it, especially midnight rain, maroon and labyrinth

@fromparistorome I am a similar age and have been a fan of hers for a long time. I really enjoy that her music grows up with us and it always seems relevant to my life (I know, I know, so lame). I suspect Midnights will be a little harder for the child/teen fans to love for that reason though.

Did she crash Spotify? Excellent! I use Apple Music, so don't know much about Spotify.

I'm a little older than her, around 5 years. So didn't get into her when she first came out as I was in my early 20s. Wasn't very relevant to me then. But from Red onwards, I can totally relate to what she writes. And I think that's why she is so successful, because she is writing about real life things, that happen to most of us. I think it's why I like her, at least. I can pin so many of my life experiences with a Taylor Swift song.

That was in response to Haus!

I really like it. I love Anti-Hero, Snow on the Beach and Vigilante Shit the best so far, although often it's the 'growers' that end up being my ultimate favourites. It reminds me of Lover - almost what I think she was aiming for with Lover but didn't quite hit the mark (it's not my favourite album despite some brilliant individual songs on there). I also really enjoyed the Anti-hero video; she definitely has a sense of humour!

There's a pattern when I'm always obsessed with one on a new album.

Out of the Woods
Getaway Car
False God
the Last Great American Dynasty
No Body, No Crime

we really needed a video for GetAway Car. I wanted Tom Hiddleston and Calvin Harris to be in it.

then I get obsessed with other tracks later!

I love Out of the woods and Getaway car & I agree a video is needed for GC.
Loving the new album, Antihero is my favourite.

@ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings Reputation is the only other album I can't learn to love.

My fave!

I particularly loved it after the video for Ready for It. I love the imagery but also what I took from it. Everyone will break out of the box eventually.

I’m a HUGE Swifty, was so excited for this album and then I went and got a bloody severe infection in both my ears 😡 I can hardly hear anything and what I can hear is really muffled and distorted and high pitched. I tried to give the album a listen anyway but it just sounded really weird and wrong, so I’m not going to listen again until my hearing is back to normal and I can hear it in all its glorious perfection- god knows when that will be!

Sorry you're ill, I hope you recover asap

DC love it. I can’t really find a tune yet but am hoping I will with a few more listens. I love Jack Antonoff so I have high hopes.

The other place you can hear Jack Antonoff is the 1975 new album. I love that we have these two releases this week.

Loving the new album, both myself and DD have been listening to it a lot over the weekend. There are some great tracks on there (although the swearing caught me off guard on first listen). Rumour has it that the lyrics for 'Vigilante Shit' could be a reference to Scooter Braun and if true then the lyrics point to a lot more to that whole relationship/story than being solely about ownership of her music. Gotta give it to her she is as sassy as ever😊

Oh no! Sorry you are unwell. Feel better soon

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0d4pk5y

If you skip through this TS is mentioned and shown acting in the film Amsterdam.

Just seen that Taylor is on Graham Norton tonight BBC1 10:40pm

I LOVE it. She’s amazing! Folklore and Evermore are my favourite albums but I’ve been listening to Midnights on repeat since it came out and there’s definitely a few tracks that are standing out as new favourites for me. She is such an amazing song writer.

in reply to the people who are saying they got into Taylor’s later stuff as they find they connect with it more, I find this fascinating…

I am 30, she is 32 and all my life it’s like she’s just been through things and released the album in time for it to accompany my life.

I started with Love Story era at 14/15, which got me into Fearless/Taylor Swift/Speak Now and OMG the glorious teenage drama.

First and only ever really nasty breakup and there is Red with All Too Well in all it’s tragedy. This for me is the ULTIMATE, the album healed me.

Struggling to find my place in life/dating the wrong guys, ohhhh, here is 1989.

Reputation is the only one that didn’t immediately click as I think it was very unique to experiences you wouldn’t have as a celebrity but like others, it has grown on me.

meet my husband…. Up pops Lover.

Settling down, late twenties, my own life is far less dramatic (how will I relate to a TS album now?!) and I’m now so much more outward looking and concerned about other’s stories and the crazy world around us… Folklore/Evermore.

And just when I think I’m still too settled in life to reaaaaally connect with a drama filled Taylor Album…. Here comes Midnights and it FEELS like an album for being in your 30s- reflecting on the drama and craziness of your 20s but also asserting your power, being a feminist, standing up to the injustices in the world and saying you will not push me down.

Karma is my cat, purring in my lap cos he loves me… thank you Taylor, putting my life into song again!

omg, it’s perfect but I also think I will grow into it more as I grow into my 30s!