"Midnights" Lyrics Will Awaken Deep Thoughts
New Taylor Swift album has enjoyable songs and fitting lyrics for late night moods.
By Bella Ramos-Khajavi
New Taylor Swift album has enjoyable songs and fitting lyrics for late night moods.
By Bella Ramos-Khajavi
At the 2022 VMAs, music artist Taylor Swift announced the release of her tenth studio album “Midnights,” which was released on Oct. 21. This brought excitement to Swift’s fanbase, many who were eager to listen to this new album.
The “Midnights” album is about 13 sleepless nights throughout Swift’s life. Swift also released “Midnights (3am edition)” which has seven extra songs for fans to enjoy. “Midnights” is Swift’s eleventh number one album with the largest debut in years which had 184.6 million streams on Spotify 24 hours after being released.
English teacher Theresa Kurzawa enjoyed how Swift was a lot more open with speaking about her insecurities and giving a new side of herself that her fans haven’t seen before.
“It was definitely more personal too, focusing less on the struggles with her relationships and more on her relationship with herself,” said Kurzawa.
Swift really does give us an insight of not just her experiences of relationships with significant others, but also with the battles she fights with herself and how she grows as a person.
The lead single “Anti-Hero,” really goes into depth about how Swift saw herself as “the problem.” Especially in the single’s music video, she takes us through the journey of learning to love herself.
“I think Anti-Hero is just fabulous. As someone who has dealt with those midnights myself, that feeling of ‘I'm not texting back enough people. I keep ghosting everyone in my life,’ because they don't have the capacity to talk to you anymore,” said English teacher Stephanie Harvey.
The name “Midnights” seems to be very fitting because it gives that nightly bedroom setting. It’s almost like those midnight thoughts where she looks back on different events in her past, but incorporates them into music.
“I think Taylor did a great job of capturing the ‘13 sleepless nights,’” said Ava Corcoran, 9.
Swift also had a collaboration with artist Lana Del Rey, who was featured on the song, “Snow On The Beach,” which was very exciting for most. It had a similar style to Del Rey’s music and I thought it was catchy, however, I think it would’ve been better with more of Del Rey’s voice. Mainly hearing Swift was a letdown for some fans, including myself, who anticipated hearing Del Rey’s vocals more.
“I wish that Lana had a verse in ‘Snow on the Beach.’ I was just waiting for that whole song to hear her but she really only harmonized with Taylor,” said Meghan Bellman, 9.
Two of my personal favorites were the songs “You’re On Your Own, Kid” and “Sweet Nothing.” “You’re On Your Own Kid” isn’t just primarily talking about relationships with a significant other, but also her relationships with others close to her. It also seemed to have a nostalgic feel to it because it felt like she compared her childhood to how she feels at this point in life. “Sweet Nothing” is more like a dreamy relationship-type song. The melody is very cute but the lyrics are a lot deeper when analyzed.
Swift's album was very well done. She did her storytelling nicely and it was fun to see the way many people could relate to her lyrics.
“Overall, it was a very solid album,” said Jake Schweizer, 9.
The “Midnights” album is about 13 sleepless nights throughout Swift’s life. Swift also released “Midnights (3am edition)” which has seven extra songs for fans to enjoy. “Midnights” is Swift’s eleventh number one album with the largest debut in years which had 184.6 million streams on Spotify 24 hours after being released.
English teacher Theresa Kurzawa enjoyed how Swift was a lot more open with speaking about her insecurities and giving a new side of herself that her fans haven’t seen before.
“It was definitely more personal too, focusing less on the struggles with her relationships and more on her relationship with herself,” said Kurzawa.
Swift really does give us an insight of not just her experiences of relationships with significant others, but also with the battles she fights with herself and how she grows as a person.
The lead single “Anti-Hero,” really goes into depth about how Swift saw herself as “the problem.” Especially in the single’s music video, she takes us through the journey of learning to love herself.
“I think Anti-Hero is just fabulous. As someone who has dealt with those midnights myself, that feeling of ‘I'm not texting back enough people. I keep ghosting everyone in my life,’ because they don't have the capacity to talk to you anymore,” said English teacher Stephanie Harvey.
The name “Midnights” seems to be very fitting because it gives that nightly bedroom setting. It’s almost like those midnight thoughts where she looks back on different events in her past, but incorporates them into music.
“I think Taylor did a great job of capturing the ‘13 sleepless nights,’” said Ava Corcoran, 9.
Swift also had a collaboration with artist Lana Del Rey, who was featured on the song, “Snow On The Beach,” which was very exciting for most. It had a similar style to Del Rey’s music and I thought it was catchy, however, I think it would’ve been better with more of Del Rey’s voice. Mainly hearing Swift was a letdown for some fans, including myself, who anticipated hearing Del Rey’s vocals more.
“I wish that Lana had a verse in ‘Snow on the Beach.’ I was just waiting for that whole song to hear her but she really only harmonized with Taylor,” said Meghan Bellman, 9.
Two of my personal favorites were the songs “You’re On Your Own, Kid” and “Sweet Nothing.” “You’re On Your Own Kid” isn’t just primarily talking about relationships with a significant other, but also her relationships with others close to her. It also seemed to have a nostalgic feel to it because it felt like she compared her childhood to how she feels at this point in life. “Sweet Nothing” is more like a dreamy relationship-type song. The melody is very cute but the lyrics are a lot deeper when analyzed.
Swift's album was very well done. She did her storytelling nicely and it was fun to see the way many people could relate to her lyrics.
“Overall, it was a very solid album,” said Jake Schweizer, 9.