Taylor's Swift's Midnights
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, Pop Superstar Taylor Swift returned with her tenth album called Midnight's. |
| 0:09.8 | It's a concept record inspired by sleeplessness and the feelings that creep in when the hour |
| 0:14.6 | is late. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:16.6 | Today we are talking about Taylor Swift's Midnight's on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
| 0:26.2 | Joining me today is Margaret H. Willison, Communications Manager of Not Sorry Productions. |
| 0:30.8 | Hey Margaret. |
| 0:31.8 | Hi Stephen. |
| 0:32.8 | Also with us is NPR Music Contributor Serena Toros. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey Serena. |
| 0:36.4 | It's me. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm the problem. |
| 0:39.4 | I think you did there. |
| 0:43.4 | So as I said at the top, Midnight's is Taylor Swift's tenth studio album. |
| 0:47.5 | It follows the two enormously successful records she released in 2020, titled Folk Lower |
| 0:52.6 | and evermore. |
| 0:56.8 | Those albums found the singer softening her sound with rich, vibrant folk pop arrangements. |
| 1:00.2 | But Midnight's once again reshapes Taylor Swift's music in unexpected ways. |
| 1:05.0 | Along with producer and co-writer Jack Antonoff, she's working with a palette of Busy Electropop. |
| 1:10.9 | Some of these songs incorporate vocal effects, but Midnight's also leans into the singer's |
| 1:15.4 | gift for a very specific kind of lyrical directness. |
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