NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

  I would argue that since   reputation ,  Taylor Swift   has made a career based on revenge. The singer-songwriter is extremely intentional and calculated when releasing new singles and albums. Last year, Swift released yet another deluxe edition of   Midnights ,  this time calling it   The Til Dawn Edition ,  featuring a new song and two remixes. When she first released   Midnights    in October of 2022, many listeners were wondering what was different about the album. It felt like   reputation  but the singer was in a steady relationship with English actor   Joe Alwyn , and everything was going great, right?   right? KARMA IS A CAT PURRING ON MY LAP.  When tabloids started reporting that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn had split in early April this year, the pointed lyrics of  Midnights  started to make a little more sense. Was Swift reacting to the expectations--from others or even Alwyn-- that their relationship should end in marriage? Could the singer stay in a "1950s shit"

Taylor pulled a Beyoncé  in late July of last year. Pulling a Beyoncé is a record industry term for releasing a studio record without any promotion or explicit social media hints. The term comes from in December of 2013 when Beyoncé released her self-titled album on iTunes without warning. The album quickly shot to number one, and so did Swift's folklore , an album written and recorded at home during quarantine. Swift worked on the project with producers Jack Antonoff and The National 's Aaron Dessner . For me on the first few listens, the album was underwhelming. I knew that there was something there, and I was pretty sure that this album would be a defining record of the new decade, but it was hard to get into the right mood for this album, much like other Jack Antonoff's masterpiece, Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell. However, the catchy ballad "exile" featuring Bon Iver was a good excuse to dive into the record today.   YOU NEVER GAVE A WARNING SI