Taylor Swift - Midnights (October 21, 2022) Album • Page 62

This is where I'm at. Can I rank real quick without y'all getting mad? I only became a fan during the 1989 cycle and haven't connected to anything before that (I know, I know, Red, I tried when the TV came out but it still doesn't do a lot for me as a whole)
Evermore
1989
Folklore
Lover
Midnights
Reputation

 

We might be neighbors lol, that’s basically on my street !

 

I think where I'm landing on this album is that I both like it a lot and also feel like it's kind of a missed opportunity. It's the first time where I feel like she's regressing, to the point where I hear a lot of little musical ideas, vocal melodies, production flourishes, etc. that she's done before on other songs and is recycling here. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but when I pictured a late-night Taylor album, I kind of hoped it would be something different than "1989, but more muted" or "Reputation, but softer." I think there was a new, more interesting path forward in the album's concept that she and Jack didn't take.

Again, I still really like this record, but as someone who is obsessed with late-night records, I'd gotten my hopes up for a masterpiece when she announced it, and I don't think it's that.

 

not gonna fully rank or anything, but to me folklore is easily better than this, but this is easily better than evermore

 

Keep going

 

Half of Lover is better than this, half of Lover is worse

 

haha no shit! I live pretty close to the ecotarium.

 

I only like 7 songs off of Lover. That album came out of a time when I was falling out of love so.....

 

current ranking (assume this ranking covers TV tracks over the originals, and all associated bonus tracks):

folklore
evermore
Red
Midnights
reputation
1989
Speak Now
Lover
Fearless
Debut

i agree with other sentiments here that i was expecting a more electronic extension of evermore, or a toned down, darker version of rep - in a way, something more like a dark night of the soul album, for lack of a better word. while this definitely isn't that, it does make me rethink how we classify late-night albums as dark and moody. i'm a sucker for those too, but i'm not mad at the shift here.

 

I will die on top of the Reputation Mountain and vacation on Red TV Island.

 

Folklore and Evermore were for the Elder Stoner Swifties

 

How has it not been mentioned that Laura Dern is in the music video

 

This was my ranking on Twitter the other night:

 

How can you vacation if you're dead

 

Folklore
Red
1989
Speak Now
Fearless
Evermore
Lover
Reputation
Midnights
S/T

 

1989
Red
Evermore
Folklore
Midnights
Lover
Speak Now
Fearless
Reputation
S/T

 

magic. duh.

 

I'm just gonna quote my last ranking post, lol:

We'll see how things play out, but right now, I think Midnights is 6th? Just above 1989, though the highlights of that one are quite high; I just really like when her pop stuff has this vibe, I guess!

 

Got swifties ranking all the #5 songs on albums now:

 

I feel like I just did this but it's probably different now haha

folklore
Red
evermore
Reputation
Speak Now
1989
Lover
Midnights
Fearless
TS

Lover was the hardest to rank because it's extremely inconsistent, my edited version would probably slot 4 or 5

 

Do people not like Tolerate It? That's news to me.

 

Fifth tracks are such a funny bit of Taylor Swift lore to me.

Don't recall if I've ever played along and ranked 'em myself, but if I did, that ranking would look surprisingly different from my album ranking.