MidnightsSwift’s tenth album, marks an emotional return to the pop lane.
“How am I so lucky?” the 32-year-old singer-songwriter reacted on Twitter. “How did this happen??!?!” she added.
“[El álbum] is the story of 13 sleepless nights spread throughout my life,” Swift explained earlier, also on Twitter.
“I think of Midnights as a conceptual work, with these 13 songs creating a complete image of the intensities of that mystical and crazy hour”.
“‘Midnights it is a mix of intensity, ups and downs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, scary, electric, hot, cold, romantic, or lonely. Just like midnight,” she continued.
On Spotify, the American included short videos to comment on what reveals her, and what inspired her in this work that signs her former collaborator, producer Jack Antonoff.
“The first thing that keeps me up at night and inspired me on this album is… self-loathing,” Swift says with a shrug and a smile. Fantasizing about revenge, wondering what could have been, falling in love and falling apart round out the list.
The melodies of “Midnights” lean towards electro-pop, with the use of synthesizers, moving away from the indie-folk vein of their two previous works, “evermore” and “folklore”, which took a Grammy for the best album of the year in 2021.
The production has the collaboration of pop diva Lana Del Rey, who appears in “Snow on The Beach”, and includes actress Zoe Kravitz in the credits.
True to form, Swift rewarded her fans, releasing Midnights on digital streaming platforms with an expanded version titled “3 am Edition”, which includes seven bonus tracks.
The wait for the album at midnight was such that some fans in the United States, France and the United Kingdom claimed that technical problems prevented them from hearing the long-awaited songs in the first hour of release.
Many angry Swifties took to social media in the wee hours to post screenshots of their player error messages: “Something’s wrong. Please try again.”
In its first hours, the production was well received by the Anglo-Saxon press.