album Taylor Swift - ‘Midnights’

[Magickarp]

7 hours ago, dwuw said:

Swifties calling this rollout a “fascinating marketing experiment”. Guess I’m too blind to see the fascinating part in all this: the first part of the rollout was based on milking and scamming her fans selling LIMITED editions of the vinyls (which weren’t so limited) and then a $170 clock (alienating her fanbase cause… not everyone can spend THAT money on some dumb ass clock) - instead of basing the rollout on the actual music she’s just trying to get some coins (not unexpected from her, but she used to be better at hiding it). And now, for the second part of the rollout she decided to come up with this forced, boring ass TikTok show that’s gonna take up a whole ass month just to give us some boring ass titles? We don’t care about the ******* title, give us some information about the ACTUAL music. I’m not even asking for a single (I wouldn’t complain tho), but… talk about the music, give interviews, covers, tease some songs, post a snippet. I don’t know, do ******* something. 
 

spill 

[dooart]

tbh i'm not that excited about the tracks' names. I'm way more excited about the credits and features, if there's any.

[Bamboo]

I don't think there's a pattern in reveals, especially considering it has the word "Mayhem" in the title. I wouldn't be surprised if the reveals are super sporadic, maybe one night we even get 2-3 track titles to add to the chaos. 

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

Next title to be revealed: track 6 - Unapologetic B*tch.

Edited September 25, 2022 by ithinkheknowsoutsold

[romas_ld]

Do we still think she will open with ~900k at this point? 

[V$.]

8 hours ago, dwuw said:

Swifties calling this rollout a “fascinating marketing experiment”. Guess I’m too blind to see the fascinating part in all this: the first part of the rollout was based on milking and scamming her fans selling LIMITED editions of the vinyls (which weren’t so limited) and then a $170 clock (alienating her fanbase cause… not everyone can spend THAT money on some dumb ass clock) - instead of basing the rollout on the actual music she’s just trying to get some coins (not unexpected from her, but she used to be better at hiding it). And now, for the second part of the rollout she decided to come up with this forced, boring ass TikTok show that’s gonna take up a whole ass month just to give us some boring ass titles? We don’t care about the ******* title, give us some information about the ACTUAL music. I’m not even asking for a single (I wouldn’t complain tho), but… talk about the music, give interviews, covers, tease some songs, post a snippet. I don’t know, do ******* something. 
 

Habla!!!

[chiliam]

2 hours ago, greeneyedsoul said:

When I think about it, we need an Xmas album. 

 

 

Yesterday i was thinking that Midnights is actually a Christmas album. Thats why she cannot release any lead single or snippet.

She will pull a surprise ***** on release day and will be like "the actual name of the album is Christmas Midnights".

And it will be the highest debut ever for a Christmas album.

We will piss at her scam but then the music is great and Christmas is coming so forgiveness is a nice thing to do. All is well again.

[TayGod]

28 minutes ago, romas_ld said:

Do we still think she will open with ~900k at this point? 

I don't know how accurate this is, but if you do some web analysis on store.taylorswift.com.

There were about 1.7 million visits to that web page since august 28. 55% were from US and the bounce rate (visits where a visitor only visits one page and leaves right away) is about 46% leaving 54% who have gone on to other pages (to make a purchase?), then you have:

1.7 million x 55% x 54% = approx 500,000 visits from US who have perhaps made purchases! Now I did not factor in that probably 100,000 of these were for non-album purchases. This would leave about 400,000 (US) purchases for albums. But some of these might be multi-version purchases.

So my theory is that 400,000 purchases came from her store alone. Now don't take my word; I could be entirely wrong. I am no expert at that. I am just basing things of number of visits to her store. And this excludes Walmart, Target, Amazon purchases. 

Edited September 25, 2022 by TayGod
Make my point clearer

[RuflesCando]

22 minutes ago, Bamboo said:

I don't think there's a pattern in reveals, especially considering it has the word "Mayhem" in the title. I wouldn't be surprised if the reveals are super sporadic, maybe one night we even get 2-3 track titles to add to the chaos. 

While I don't disagree, I do think she using this month-long process as a shield from doing anything else for the album (i.e single). And if it appears to be a month-long process (having a schedule, showing up every week, and ending it two days before the release) it's a stronger stance. It appears busier than it actually is. If she just picks 13 (now 11) random dates with small proximity to one another the month will seem emptier than it already does. And the single speculation will restart (it's pretty much dead now and it will be put completely to rest if she shows up later). I don't think she's envisioning this feeling of sparseness or wants single speculations. She could've just dropped all at once if she didn't care about an appearing dead rollout month

[PoisonedIvy]

20 minutes ago, TayGod said:

I don't know how accurate this is, but if you do some web analysis on store.taylorswift.com.

There were about 1.7 million visits to that web page since august 28. 55% were from US and the bounce rate (visits where a visitor only visits one page and leaves right away) is about 46% leaving 54% who have gone on to other pages (to make a purchase?), then you have:

1.7 million x 55% x 54% = approx 500,000 visits from US who have perhaps made purchases! Now I did not factor in that probably 100,000 of these were for non-album purchases. This would leave about 400,000 (US) purchases for albums. But some of these might be multi-version purchases.

So my theory is that 400,000 purchases came from her store alone. Now don't take my word; I could be entirely wrong. I am no expert at that. I am just basing things of number of visits to her store. And this excludes Walmart, Target, Amazon purchases. 

Mathematician queen 

[TayGod]

2 minutes ago, WeFoundTrouble said:

Mathematician queen 

Yes! I took accounting in school. 

[Ms. Togekiss]

1 hour ago, Clauss said:

Another thing I really dislike is like being cheated. The random ball thing is not random at all. If she wants me to believe it, make it LIVE and show the god damn ball not the one that someone is giving it to her 

You notice in the second video you can only see half the bingo cage?  She def got mad that ppl pointed out all the balls had 13 on them so she filmed the second video in a way we couldn’t see the other balls 

[Jaspurr]

Wasn't there a guy that was tracking the number of pre-orders from her site? What's the tea?

 

[Jaspurr]

I wish Renegade was the lead single off of Midnights. That chorus needs to be on the radio every 30 minutes.

 

[Cloröx]

Every two hours when I visit this thread 

 

 

[By the Water]

8 minutes ago, Jaspurr said:

Wasn't there a guy that was tracking the number of pre-orders from her site? What's the tea?

 

Her team changed the way they count orders on her site so people can’t track pre-orders. We’ll have to hope her team provides HDD with some number

 

[By the Water]

The Red TV tracklist reveal was much more interesting than this. She ran out of ideas

 

[Jaspurr]

 

This is still the most unhinged thing she's ever done. Those Mayhem videos don't even come close.

 

[Jaspurr]

4 minutes ago, By the Water said:

Her team changed the way they count orders on her site so people can’t track pre-orders. We’ll have to hope her team provides HDD with some number

 

So, she's determined not to let us have anything other than the titles.

 

[By the Water]

Seems like we're not the only spoiled ones

 

[PoisonedIvy]

11 minutes ago, Jaspurr said:

 

This is still the most unhinged thing she's ever done. Those Mayhem videos don't even come close.

 

She needs to answer to this crime. 
 

[PoisonedIvy]

Please I’m watching that Stephen Colbert video and she drops so many numbers it’s insane. She literally knows how crazy this fanbase is and she takes advantage of it.

[Jai]

Im beyond excited for this album. Taylor never really misses for me quality wise. 

[cruelcooper]

I want this woman in prison.

[PoisonedIvy]

8 minutes ago, Jai said:

Im beyond excited for this album. Taylor never really misses for me quality wise. 

 

Just now, cruelcooper said:

I want this woman in prison.

The dichotomy of this thread is hilarious