Up late with Taylor Swifts Midnights
A Taylor Swift album is just not a collection of new music, it\u2019s an exploration of a theme. For the last eight years, each release has embodied a single idea. Reputation marked a turn to the dark side, Lover a return to the light, and her pair of albums Folklore and Evermore painted acoustic, fictional landscapes. Each album propels fans to find covert lyrical connections to her personal life, and easter eggs to past compositions.\n\nWhereas Swift's pop star contemporaries have focused their energies on becoming business moguls, Swift has gone deeper into songwriting and receiving accolades in the process. In September 2022, the Nashville Songwriting Association International awarded Swift the Songwriter of the Decade award. In her acceptance speech she says, \u201cwriting songs is my life\u2019s work and my hobby and my never-ending thrill.\u201d\n\nNow she continues that thrill collaborating with her frequent producing partner and friend of the show, Jack Antonoff, on Midnights, her 10th studio album (not counting her recent \u201cTaylor\u2019s version\u201d re-recordings of past releases). On Midnights Swift builds a lyrical and sonic world that takes place across \u201c13 sleepless nights.\u201d Nate and Charlie listen closely to hear how she constructs this late night feeling.\xa0\xa0\n\nMore\n\nNate\u2019s article on \u201cTaylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting\u201d for the Contemporary Music Review Journal\n\nJohn Hull's Soundfly course on Advanced Synths and Patch Design for Producers\n\n\n\nMusic Discussed:\n\nTaylor Swift - Anti-Hero, Lavender Haze, Maroon, Question, Snow On the Beach, Mastermind, Bejeweled, Vigilante Shit, Labyrinth, Midnight Rain, You\u2019re On Your Own Kid, You Belong With Me, Stay\n\nKevin \u201cReese\u201d Saunderson - Just Want Another Chance\n\nRay \u201cRenegade\u201d Keith - Terrorist P.A. Mix\n\nBurial - Archangel\xa0\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices