Midnights

Someone in my office said that they thought this album was good but not his best compared to his previous ones, so they would be maybe more surprised if he got nominations for this compared to his earlier work, which I thought was interesting.

I guess something that's happened with, like, Taylor Swift with Midnights, for example, where a lot of fans didn't think that was her best but still got nominated.

So I'll be interested to see actually where the Grammy voters go with...

Noah and also is it just like a Noah and Bruno vote because the other male categories aren't as strong so it's just like they want to throw yeah like maybe men in I don't know

She puts out Fearless and Red, Taylor's version.

Then in 2022, she puts out Midnights.

Okay.

So in that three years period, my girl puts out five albums.

no no fucking skips

like literally the slot acoustic version specifically so so good chef's kiss um iconic everyone knows about 1989 everyone and their mother knows about 1989 and it was the most cohesive album for a while that we had from Taylor Swift until, I guess, we got Folklore as well, and maybe I would say even Midnights.

Midnights is definitely a very tight package as well, um, and these are usually the ones that really work for her, uh, and really communicate excellence.

The other type of albums are, like, a la Red and Evermore and, um...

Torture Poets Department, yes, they're all very, like, chaotic, because what really takes the front seat is the writing instead, and those are the most delicious, in terms of emotions and everything else, but these are more about execution, you know? And they're all super well executed, and super well done.

We drew a map on your bedroom ceiling No, I didn't see the news Cause we were somewhere else In an alleyway Drinking champagne Cause we were in Paris Yes, we were somewhere else My love, we were in Yes, we were somewhere else

Yeah, from her Or Till Dawn edition of Midnights, Taylor Swift, in her song simply entitled Paris, where she imagines being with her boyfriend at the time, stumbling down alleyways, drinking cheap wine, pretending it's champagne.

Eartha Kitt proceeded with a song written in 1913 and recorded by her 40 years later.

Under the Bridges of Paris.

Taylor wasn't necessarily wanting to like go back through her entire career.

But what happened in 2023 is she had released Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights, along with Fearless Taylor's version and Red Taylor's version.

And she had not toured them.

So

propels her to even new heights as far as her career goes.

And then she starts doing the re-record process with Taylor's versions.

And then she gives us Midnights, which is also album of the year.

And then she gives us the Heiress tour.

I think that, I think that...

I have an interesting relationship with Midnights because, again, I have some ambivalence towards the folkiness of the pandemic records.

Like, I just have a complicated relationship with it.

I was so happy to hear her, like, do a pop thing again.

On this day in 1980, Bruce Springsteen released his Hungry Heart.

And on this day in 2022, Taylor Swift releases the Midnights album.

I feel like that's worthy of the on this day in history, Jill.

That is the album, Moshe, that brought us, "It's me.