After months of teases and ballgames, the journey to Taylor Swift’s Midnights has reached its conclusion.
Now, one other journey begins, as Swifties all over the place drop all the things, take up the brand new document and share their ideas on-line. TayTay herself has entered the dialogue.
Within the small hours, because the album trended on social media, the pop famous person mirrored on her newest LP, her tenth studio effort, and first since her Billboard 200 chart-leader Evermore from 2020.
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“Midnights is a wild journey of an album and I couldn’t be happier that my co pilot on this journey was Jack Antonoff,” she writes, thanking her buddy, years-long collaborator and producer.
“He’s my buddy for all times (presumptuous I do know however I stand by it) and we’ve been making music collectively for almost a decade.”
Nevertheless, she provides, “that is our first album we’ve performed with simply the 2 of us as important collaborators.”
Swift’s put up captures good occasions alongside the way in which. Buddies, laughter, candid moments, empty bottles of wine.
The brand new launch, she continues within the social put up, “actually coalesced and flowed out of us when our companions (each actors) did a movie collectively in Panama. Jack and I discovered ourselves again in New York, alone, recording each evening, staying up late and exploring outdated recollections and midnights previous.”
Paying tribute to those that impressed the newest set, together with Zoe Kravitz and Australian producer Keanu beats, the consequence “is a collage of depth, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life will be darkish, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, sizzling, chilly, romantic or lonely,” Swift concludes. “Identical to Midnights. Which is out now.”
Historical past beckons for Taylor. If Midnights goes to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, she would tie Barbra Streisand for probably the most No. 1 albums by a feminine artist. Midnights could be Swift’s eleventh album to prime the survey, which might put her in a tie for third place all-time with Streisand, Bruce Springsteen and Drake for probably the most No. 1s for the reason that chart originated in 1956. Solely the Beatles (19 No. 1 albums) and Jay-Z (14) have amassed greater than 11 leaders.
Swifties will need to play an element in that historical past.
