#Spotify color palette series

Swift enlisted Jack Antonoff, her longtime collaborator since 2013, to co-produce Midnights with her, which came together as a result of Swift's and Antonoff's partners, English actor Joe Alwyn and American actress Margaret Qualley, respectively, shooting in Panama for the 2022 romantic thriller film Stars at Noon. Writing and productionĪaron Dessner produced four bonus tracks.Īccording to Swift, the subject matter of Midnights was inspired by five major topics: self-hatred, revenge fantasies, 'wondering what might have been', falling in love, and 'falling apart'. Swift's official website crashed due to heavy traffic following the posts. She described the album as 'the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout life'. At midnight, Swift posted across her social media accounts that her tenth studio album would be titled Midnights, accompanied by a premise. The canvases of some of Swift's songs on Spotify were changed to a visual featuring the clock. Shortly after, Swift's official website was updated with a clock counting down to midnight and the phrase 'Meet me at midnight'. In her acceptance speech for the Video of the Year award, she announced a 'brand-new' studio album scheduled for release on October 21, 2022. Swift garnered five nominations for the short film at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2022, and won three of them. Many speculated that her next album would be Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (2023) or the re-recording of 1989 (2014). It was accompanied by a corresponding short film, All Too Well: The Short Film, written and directed by Swift. The latter included the ten-minute, original version of her 2012 song ' All Too Well'.

She released the first two of these re-recordings, Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version), in 2021. To support Midnights along with her other albums, Swift has embarked on the Eras Tour in 2023 an overwhelming demand for the tickets crashed its Ticketmaster pre-sale.Īfter a dispute over the sale of the masters of her first six studio albums in 2019, Taylor Swift announced that she plans to re-record the said albums. ' Lavender Haze' and ' Karma', which peaked at number two and nine on the Hot 100 respectively, have been released as subsequent singles other tracks such as ' Maroon', ' Snow on the Beach' featuring Lana Del Rey, ' You're on Your Own, Kid', ' Midnight Rain', and ' Bejeweled' also achieved high positions internationally. The lead single ' Anti-Hero' scored Swift her ninth number-one song in the US and topped the charts in 14 other territories. The album spawned 10 top-ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100- the most for any album-in the same week. In the United States, it opened with over 1.57 million units, logged Swift's 11th number-one on the Billboard 200, the largest vinyl sales week of the 21st century, and became the best-selling album of 2022. It achieved the Spotify feat for the most single-day streams of an album and topped the charts in 28 territories. It was commercially successful across all formats of music consumption and broke a string of records globally publications dubbed the ubiquitous success a testament to Swift's cultural impact and longevity. Critics dubbed the album a career concoction, incorporating references to and elements from Swift's previous albums, and placed it in best-album rankings of 2022. Midnights received critical acclaim for its restrained production, candid songwriting and vocal cadences.

#Spotify color palette series

Swift unveiled the standard track list on a TikTok series called Midnights Mayhem with Me from September 21 to October 7, 2022, and surprise-released seven bonus tracks. The songs are characterized by subtle grooves, vintage synthesizers, drum machine, and hip hop/ R&B rhythms. Sonically, it experiments with chill-out, electropop, dream pop, and bedroom pop styles, applying an alternative approach to the synth-pop sound of Swift's previous pop projects. Inspired by Swift's 'sleepless nights', Midnights explores topics of anxiety, insecurity, self-criticism, self-awareness, insomnia, and self-confidence, using confessional yet cryptic lyrics. A concept album about nocturnal ruminations, Midnights was written and produced by Swift with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. It was announced at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, marking Swift's first new body of work since her 2020 indie folk albums, Folklore and Evermore. Midnights is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 21, 2022, via Republic Records.