Taylor was releasing back to back quality pop albums with Evermore and Folklore and then MIDnights happened. Was she too focused on the TV albums? Why is Midnights inferior compared to the albums before it

Edited February 16, 20242 yr by Josh

She made a simple mainstream-friendly synthpop album to maximize her ability to capitalize on the renewed popularity folklore and the rerecordings brought to her career, and the album was in fact a maximum success so I’m sorry to say that Midnights went right. 

If wrong is winning AOTY and having the biggest tour in history to promote the album, god I hope I'm wrong in the next chapter of my life!

She is increasingly confident in releasing bad albums knowing that she will always have critics at her feet praising whatever crap she makes, and a legion of white fans buying her music as if their lives depended on it.

 

In short, she's in a comfort zone artistically

Her writing on Midnights seems familiar due to her working on it concurrently with the TVs. 

glasses

Midnights is a great album that is on track to go diamond in a couple years.  Y’all are doing too much. 

8 hours ago, Josh said:

Taylor was releasing back to back quality pop albums with Evermore and Folklore and then MIDnights happened. Was she too focused on the TV albums? Why is Midnights inferior compared to the albums before it

Folklore was the anomaly, not the rule. Taylor makes easily digestible garbage most of the time.

She knew her fans would buy it regardless. 

It won AOTY, did your fav’s?

 

What went wrong there?

Nothing went wrong. It's a universally acclaimed, AOTY-winning album that's loved by the fans and the public.

2 minutes ago, Feanor said:

Nothing went wrong. It's a universally acclaimed, AOTY-winning album that's loved by the fans and the public.

But ATRL user Josh didn’t enjoy it, so clearly something did go wrong and we must get to the bottom of this immediately. 
 

It truly is one of the blandest albums I've ever heard and I used to be a fan of her music

85 on Metacric, universally acclaimed

AOTY

A multi-week smash hit (Anti-Hero) + an additional hit (Karma)

Nearly 7M album units in the US already, 14M WW

 

"Did anything go wrong?" is the actual question. 

 

Edited February 16, 20242 yr by Klein

Well...

Anti-Hero, The Great War, Would've Could've Should've, Maroon, Bigger than the whole Sky, you're own you're own kid and High Infidelity are GREAT songs, in some way better than any other Folklore/Evermore tracks

 

jack antonoff happened. that man must be stopped.

I always thought that she had Midnights more or less done after Lover and then just didn't release it because of the pandemic. And then she wrote the 3AM songs to sorta bridge it closer to where she is now

I feel like Midnights gets too much hate, never really understood why it is so polarizing even among Swifties

 

Is it even close to her best album? Absolutely not

 

Did it deserve to win aoty from the standpoint of artistic excellence? Hell no

 

Is it a fun album with plenty of great tracks? Yeah it totally is

 

I fail to see "what went wrong" with a commercially successful album that received positive reviews.

 

 

While Midnights isn't perfect, let's not forget it's much better than its pop predecessor Loser. And, if nothing else, it's cohesive (at least the standard 13 tracks are)

it's glasses. He needs to stop producing albums

it won album of the year and sold 1.5M first week

 

what went RIGHT?

What went wrong? 

The album spent more than a year in the top ten, is one of her most successful albums worldwide, had one of her biggest hits in Anti Hero and a cute smash with Karma, was one of the most acclaimed albums of 2022 (top 10 most acclaimed), won AOTY... If that's considered "wrong" then what's considered "right" 

This thread: Midnights is not a quality album

Swifties: we don't care it sold a ton1!!!!11!1! 

She wanted a massive era and that’s what she got

 

She knows she can’t release these kind of albums all the time because it would affect her credibility 

 

The praise midnights got was the groundwork of Folklore and Evermore did

 

The next album has to be a masterpiece if not she will really affect her acclaim

2 hours ago, Trent W said:

She wanted a massive era and that’s what she got

 

She knows she can’t release these kind of albums all the time because it would affect her credibility 

 

The praise midnights got was the groundwork of Folklore and Evermore did

 

The next album has to be a masterpiece if not she will really affect her acclaim

this is the best I've seen someone put it. my girl isn't dumb, she does what she needs to do, when she needs to do it.