Midnights is an album by Taylor Swift that was released in late 2022. This album as of right now has 4 versions and has a grand total of 22 songs (24 if you include the more LDR SOTB ver and Ice spice karma). You could say that this album is one of her most successful ones, being the first album to have filled the top 10 spots of the hot 100 billboard. But yet with all of its success, it’s still somewhat under appreciated by Taylor Swift’s community. It’s probably already been 11 months since it’s release but i barely see any swifties talking about this album. Yes 11 months, the hype of this album probably already died down since a long time ago and already has pasts it’s era. But i’m here to talk about why it’s under appreciated by the swiftie community and that they should treasure this masterpiece made by the mother herself.
Amazing And Creative, Yet Ignored Lyricism.
The songs in this album have such poetic lyrics and so much meaning behind them. Let’s use the song “labyrinth” as an example.
The song labyrinth is about Taylor finding herself falling in love again not long after a traumatic love. She thought she won’t fall again after what had happened before, but yet she found love again. (that was what i captured from the lyrics). She tells that story with such simple but lyrical words. And makes it so relatable to anyone. Here is an example of the lyrics.
Uh oh, I'm falling in love
Oh no, I'm falling in love again
Oh, I'm falling in love
I thought the plane was going down
How'd you turn it right around
The lyrics tell 3 stages of falling in love. “Uh oh, i’m falling in love” as the phase of realizing that you’re in love. “Oh no, i’m falling in love again” as the phase of fear of being in love again. And finally the phase of acceptance “Oh, i’m falling in love”.
Let’s take another song as an example, Maroon. This song is about a grown up perspective of love. Since maroon is like a more mature version of the color red. This is what i caught from the song, but this song has such creative lyrics. I saw from a tiktok that Taylor Swift described the color red in 8 ways in this song
The burgundy on my t-shirt
When you splashed your wine into me And how the blood rushed into my cheeks
So scarlet, it was maroon
The mark they saw on my collarbone
The rust that grew between telephones
The lips I used to call home So scarlet, it was maroon
(the underlined words are the ones i meant)
And the fact that they choose to move on from these lyrical masterpieces saddens me. Midnights' lyrics deserve more praise than whatever praise it got. But the lyrics aren't the only thing about this album that is being ignored. Which takes us to the next few points!
Relatable But Over shadowed Songs
The songs on this album are very easy to relate to. The songs on this album have such diverse lyrics and is easy to interpret it as anything. Example, I interpret the song "Labyrinth" as falling in love after a traumatic experience of love. But others may interpret it as falling in love over and over again. And not just that, these songs are very relatable in general.
I don't know about you, but as an average teenage girl i can relate a lot too some of these songs. Take anti-hero as an example. This song is THE people pleaser anthem. This song is literally about me, i mean just look at these lyrics!
I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser
Midnights become my afternoons
When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people
I've ghosted stand there in the room
Mind you, that this is just the first few bars of lyrics! The meaning behind this song is sadly covered because of how viral this song got. They now call this song annoying, sadly. Another relatable song i would choose is Dear Reader.
I would not call this relatable but rather very filled with advice. Taylor gives her advice in the form of this song. But this song is sadly forgotten because of how popular the other songs are. I mean just look at these lyrics!
Dear reader, if it feels like a trap
You're already in one
Dear reader, get out your map
Pick somewhere and just run
Dear reader, burn all the files
Desert all your past lives
And if you don't recognize yourself
That means you did it right
These lyrics are literally literature masterpieces! People should actually start noticing some of these so-called hidden songs. Cause these songs give free therapy! Not just the lyrics, but the whole song in general! Which takes me to my next point--
Certified BOPS!
Don't let me talk about this, I LOVE the midnights discography! Like it's so diverse and amazing! Like, we literally have Bigger Than The Whole Sky and Bejeweled in the same album! These songs have a 360° difference, yet they still have that Midnights feeling! Taylor literally has everything in this album, from sad to happy songs. Sad how this album is still very under appreciated
here is my personal ranking of the songs in this album :
1. You're Losing Me
2. Maroon
3. BTTWS
4. Sweet Nothing
5. YOYOK
Why Do I Say It's Still Under Appreciated?
First of all, This blog is mainly from my perspective and what i have seen. And the reason I think this album is so under appreciated is that many of her other albums are also amazing. And so many people were releasing albums at that time. But those were not my main reason.
People basically moved on too fast from this album. They never really got time to appreciate it fully. I see people ranking this album as Taylor's worst or just maybe bottom 3. And that makes me sad! Like i know that everyone has their own opinions but ranking this album as her worst is just disrespectful. I bet that most people who ranks this album low hasn't gotten to exploring this album. Cause wait till they realize that this album has so many good songs.
But yet again, everyone has their respective opinions. And for me personally, this album is 6th in my ranking.
Falisha's notes :
Hey!! sorry if this blog is somewhat messy. This is actually my first blog! And i hope to improve my writing skills even more as my blogger phase continues ;p! And also please respect my personal opinion also! thank you!!
XOXO, Falisha.
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