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Oct 2022
38m 17s

Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’

Vulture
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A Taylor Swift album is just not a collection of new music, it’s 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 lyric ... Show More
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