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Midnights is the tenth original studio album (and twelfth overall) by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 21, 2022, via Republic Records. Announced at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, the album marks Swift's first body of new work since her 2020 alternative folk albums, Folklore and Evermore. A concept album about nocturnal ruminations, Midnights was written and produced by Swift with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff.
Inspired by the "sleepless nights" of Swift's life, Midnights contains confessional yet cryptic lyrics, exploring anxiety, insecurity, self-criticism, self-awareness, insomnia, and self-confidence. Expanding on the synth-pop sound of Swift's previous pop projects, the album experiments with electronica, dream pop, bedroom pop, and chill-out music styles. The songs are characterized by subtle grooves, vintage synthesizers, drum machine, and hip hop/R&B rhythms. Swift unveiled the standard track list on a TikTok series called Midnights Mayhem with Me from September 21 to October 7, 2022, and surprise-released seven bonus tracks.
Midnights received critical acclaim for its restrained production, candid songwriting and vocal cadences. Critics described the album as a concoction of Swift's life and career, incorporating references to and elements from her previous albums, and placed it in their 2022 year-end best-albums rankings. It was also successful across all formats of music consumption, breaking a string of commercial records globally; publications dubbed the ubiquitous success a testament to Swift's cultural impact and longevity. The album achieved the Spotify feat for the most single-day streams of an album and topped the charts in 28 territories, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it opened with over 1.5 million units, and logged the largest vinyl sales week of the 21st century, Swift's 11th number-one on the Billboard 200 and the top-selling album of 2022.
Inspired by the "sleepless nights" of Swift's life, Midnights contains confessional yet cryptic lyrics, exploring anxiety, insecurity, self-criticism, self-awareness, insomnia, and self-confidence. Expanding on the synth-pop sound of Swift's previous pop projects, the album experiments with electronica, dream pop, bedroom pop, and chill-out music styles. The songs are characterized by subtle grooves, vintage synthesizers, drum machine, and hip hop/R&B rhythms. Swift unveiled the standard track list on a TikTok series called Midnights Mayhem with Me from September 21 to October 7, 2022, and surprise-released seven bonus tracks.
Midnights received critical acclaim for its restrained production, candid songwriting and vocal cadences. Critics described the album as a concoction of Swift's life and career, incorporating references to and elements from her previous albums, and placed it in their 2022 year-end best-albums rankings. It was also successful across all formats of music consumption, breaking a string of commercial records globally; publications dubbed the ubiquitous success a testament to Swift's cultural impact and longevity. The album achieved the Spotify feat for the most single-day streams of an album and topped the charts in 28 territories, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it opened with over 1.5 million units, and logged the largest vinyl sales week of the 21st century, Swift's 11th number-one on the Billboard 200 and the top-selling album of 2022.
Tracklist
1. Lavender Haze
2. Maroon
3. Anti-Hero
4. Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)
5. You're On Your Own, Kid
6. Midnight Rain
7. Question…?
8. Vigilante Shit
9. Bejeweled
10. Labyrinth
11. Karma
12. Sweet Nothing
13. Mastermind
14. The Great War
15. Bigger Than The Whole Sky
16. Paris
17. High Infidelity
18. Glitch
19. Would've, Could've, Should've
20. Dear Reader
21. Hits Different
1. Lavender Haze
2. Maroon
3. Anti-Hero
4. Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)
5. You're On Your Own, Kid
6. Midnight Rain
7. Question…?
8. Vigilante Shit
9. Bejeweled
10. Labyrinth
11. Karma
12. Sweet Nothing
13. Mastermind
14. The Great War
15. Bigger Than The Whole Sky
16. Paris
17. High Infidelity
18. Glitch
19. Would've, Could've, Should've
20. Dear Reader
21. Hits Different
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