Taylor Swift: Midnights (moonstone blue marbled vinyl) [REPUBLIC]

Why you'll love it

Midnights was the best-selling album of 2022, sold a million copies in five days and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. "Anti-Hero" spent eight weeks at No. 1.

This edition

• Moonstone blue marbled vinyl
• Produced with Jack Antonoff
• Republic pressing

About the album

For a massive "superstar" album, Taylor Swift's Midnights is a remarkably hushed, restrained and late-night affair. And this is why it's also kind of awesome. The gal hasn't exactly navigated her ascent to Total World Pop Domination via a straight A-to-B path. From her bright-eyed country(-esque) beginnings to the gleaming electro-pop of 1989 and Reputation to the surprisingly deep and varied songwriting on display on Lover and its unadorned, folk-leaning sequels Folklore and Evermore, Swift has made a habit of changing things up at just the right time. And on 2022's Midnights, as she did with Lover in 2019, she changed things up at just the right time, again, to turn TayTay doubters into believers.

Full of late-night thoughts and wry self-reflection (and some spectacularly artful and theatrical self-deprecation on the magnificent single "Anti-Hero"), the subdued, synth-soaked Midnights would not outwardly seem the most obvious candidate for the best-selling album of 2022. And yet it was, selling a million copies in five days even though it only arrived in late October. Credit the legions of Swifties out there for tagging along on a musical ride that consistently refrains from doing the obvious thing. Swift didn't get where she is by accident. She's the real deal. Midnights is proof of that.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Republic, first out in 2022.