Highlights
- Fans criticize Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' lyrics for being cheesy and cringeworthy.
- Despite some lyrical missteps, 'Midnights' album was a massive hit.
- Swift openly discused her songs on 'Midnights,' revealing personal inspirations and the meanings behind tracks.
Even though the singer writes about her wealthy celebrity ex-boyfriends, Taylor Swift's music feels universal, poetic, and fun. Swift's most popular songs have memorable lyrics that are easy to quote and many would say that she gets better and better. In October 2022, Swift released her 10th album "Midnights" to critical acclaim and a positive fan response.
However, even though "Midnights" proved that Taylor Swift gets more and more talented as time goes on, not everyone loved every aspect of the album. In this article, we'll take a look at what fans said about the lyrics on "Midnights." We'll also look at why "Midnights" has done so well and what Taylor Swift thinks about the album.
Fans Criticized Some Of Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' Lyrics
While there's no doubt that fans love Taylor Swift's "Midnights" album, many couldn't help but share that they find some of the lyrics to be silly and awkward. Several fans discussed "Midnights" in the Taylor Swift SubReddit and admitted that there are some lines that they just don't like.
The song "Vigilante Sh*t" was mentioned a few times in the thread. Redditor @SenorWoodley said:
"'Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man.' Cringe cringe cringe. I’m sorry."
Redditor @icefrozen ground mentioned the lyrics "I don't start sh*t but I can tell you how it ends." They wrote, "It sounds like something I would have said as an edgy fourteen year old." Redditor @hdouglas447 added, "Big AIM away message energy."
A few fans shared that they don't love "Snow On The Beach." Since Lana Del Rey sings on the song, it's one of the tunes that got the most hype when "Midnights" was released.
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Taylor Swift's smile might have been helped out with veneers, but there's another reason fans are concerned about her teeth.Redditor @cosmicdistress wrote:
"The lyricism is just… bad. My particular unfavorite is “my smile is like I won a contest,” it sounds so cheesy, like something I would’ve written in elementary school to show my teacher that I paid attention when we learned about similes."
A few fans agreed. Redditor @andrxwwxvi wrote, "I like the song but the lyrics are embarrassingly bad." Redditor @handwritinganalyst added, "Snow on the Beach has really taken time to grow on me and I just had to embrace it for the cringiness that it is."
Several Taylor Swift fans criticized her use of swear words. Since the singer isn't known for cursing in her songs, it's definitely a good point.
What Are The Songs On Taylor Swift's "Midnights?"
- "Lavender Haze"
- "Maroon"
- "Anti-Hero"
- "Snow on the Beach"
- "You're On Your Own, Kid"
- "Midnight Rain"
- "Question...?"
- "Vigilante Sh*t"
- "Bejeweled"
- "Labyrinth"
- "Karma"
- "Sweet Nothing"
- "Mastermind"
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Taylor Swift has been happily dating Travis Kelce for the last several weeks, but before him she had plenty of older boyfriends.Redditor @idolovebread wrote about the lyrics that include swearing:
"It just feels forced and as though she’s cursing just to be cool. I’m sure she curses in her regular life, as we all do. But it just feels forced."
Fans also criticized the line from "Paris" when Swift sings "and not the kind that's thrown/I mean the shade under where a tree has grown." Redditor @dukeramaroo wrote, "I just find the lyric to be wayyyyyy too corny."
Inside The Success Of Taylor Swift's "Midnights" Album
The success of Taylor Swift's "Midnights" album continues to be incredibly impressive. In January 2023, The Guardian reported that Universal Music made $230 million from the album. According to Entertainment Weekly, Billboard calculated that "Midnights" had 357 million streams the first week that it was released, and 3 million sales around the world.
Thanks to the love that fans had for this album immediately, "Midnights" took the number one spot on the Billboard 200 right away. 10 of Swift's "Midnights" songs also made it into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, which no other singer had been able to achieve before.
According to NBC, Swift now has 11 albums that made the number one spot on the Billboard 20. By October 31st, only a few days after the album came out, "Midnights" had sold the most copies of any 2022 album.
What Did Taylor Swift Say About Her Successful 'Midnights' Album?
While fans admitted that they dislike some of the lyrics on Taylor Swift's "Midnights" album, there's no denying that the album is still incredibly beloved.
The singer wrote about what she was passionate about, including her long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn. While Swift often sprinkles details of her personal life into her songs and leaves it up to fan interpretation, she sometimes says exactly what she wrote her songs about.
Who Has Songwriting Credits On Taylor Swift's "Midnights?" (According to Billboard)
- Jack Antonoff
- Lana Del Rey
- William Bowery
- Zoë Kravitz
According to Stylecaster.com, she shared her thoughts on her song "Lavender Haze" on Instagram and explained that she got the term from Mad Men.
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Many Taylor Swift want to know about her relationship with Travis Kelce's Brother Jason and his wife Kylie.Swift said, "I thought that was really beautiful. I guess theoretically when you’re in the lavender haze, you’ll do anything to stay there and not let people bring you down off of that cloud." Although she didn't mention Alwyn by name, she said that they would "dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it."
According to Just Jared Jr., Swift talked about her "Midnights" song "Karma" in a New Music Daily Apple Music interview.
Swift said the song is about "feeling like really happy really proud of the way your life is, feeling like this must be a reward for doing stuff right and it’s a song that I really love because I think we all need some of those moments you know we can’t just be beating ourselves up all the time." She added, "You have to have these moments where you’re like you know what karma is my boyfriend and that’s it.”
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