TSmidnighTS: Taylor Swift deals in dark magic on 'Midnights.' Read ellen_a_johnson's review:
lead single “Look What You Made Me Do,” karma is on her mind 24/7. But for Swift, karma isn’t just how human behavior affects the cosmic order of things. It’s the idea that people’s actions control the narrative. Because Swift has been in the spotlight since she was 16, the story of her career has so often been told for her, and any time she can reclaim that narrative, she does so with gusto.
Swift is never not thinking about the big picture, and she returns to the business of image-making on her cryptic and catchy 10th album,was an entire record devoted to image and even revenge on those who had defaced her, Swift speaks a more subtle language on. While it was pitched as something of a concept album—“the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life”—it probably could have been framed like any of her other releases.
, in particular, are hard to ignore. “Maroon” is this album’s “Dress,” complete with some light rapping entrenched in hypnotic trap beats and a not-so-subtle reference to a hickey. Opener “Lavender Haze”—a co-write with Antonoff, Kendrick Lamar collaborator Sounwave and Zoë Kravitz, who also lends background vocals to the track—has a sultry melody not unlike that of “False God,” while the lyrics look to the feminist discontent first explored on “The Man” and “betty.
And there’s no shortage of Swiftian metaphor on the album, either. She wears a “blood-soaked gown” on “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” dresses for “revenge” on “Vigilante Shit” and becomes the “Midnight Rain” itself on the song of the same name. She’s also still doing something other pop megastars aren’t: packing her songs with books’ worth of narrative.
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