{"id":1709173,"date":"2022-10-24T14:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709173"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:04:14","slug":"taylor-swifts-midnights-marriage-miscarriage-and-two-single-day-records-at-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-swifts-midnights-marriage-miscarriage-and-two-single-day-records-at-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Midnights\u2019: Marriage, Miscarriage, And Two Single Day Records At Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaylor-swifts-midnights-marriage-miscarriage-and-two-single-day-records-at-spotify%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709173&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Taylor Swift has returned to her roots. <\/p>\n<p>After releasing songs in the past few years with lyrics like \u201cf*** the patriarchy\u201d and \u201cWhy are you mad? \/ When you could be GLAAD?\u201d her latest album is largely a return to pre-2018 Swift, one who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama?source=%2Fopinion%2Ftaylor-swift-is-now-obsessed-with-politics-and-it-shows\">wasn\u2019t<\/a> \u201cobsessed with politics\u201d and one who sang about universal experiences: heartbreak, longing, and falling in love.<\/p>\n<p>Swift usually catches flak for being too formulaic: singing about break ups and romance, more break ups and more romance. There\u2019s no shortage of that type of thing in her latest album, Midnights, which tells \u201cthe stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout [Swift\u2019s] life.\u201d But there\u2019s a reason this formula made Swift so popular.<\/p>\n<p>Following two re-releases of older albums and the folksy Evermore and Folklore, Midnights sounds like the old Taylor: impishly self-deprecating and self-aware, filled with tales of regret and young love and revenge.<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cAnti-Hero,\u201d the only song so far to get a music video, Swift delivers what is clearly meant to become a viral millennial anthem. \u201cI have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser,\u201d she sings in the intro, building up to a self-effacing chorus: \u201cIt\u2019s me, hi \/ I\u2019m the problem, it\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her lyrics stand out because of their relatability, not exactly their poetry. When she rhymes \u201cdevices,\u201d \u201cprices,\u201d \u201cvices,\u201d and \u201ccrisis\u201d in the space of three lines, followed by another three lines that manage to cram together \u201cscreaming,\u201d \u201cdreaming,\u201d \u201cleaving,\u201d and \u201cscheming,\u201d it feels a bit overwrought.<\/p>\n<p>But her 20- to 30-something millennial fans \u2014 who have followed the 32-year-old\u2019s career since she released her debut album at age 16 \u2014 will relate to lyrics like \u201cDid you hear my covert narcissism \/ I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnti-Hero\u201d may be the headliner, but it\u2019s certainly not the star. Just three hours after Midnights\u2019 release, Swift revealed Midnights (3am Edition), containing seven more songs \u2014 and the best one on the album.<\/p>\n<p>If her lyricism falters in her songs designed for more popular appeal, it shines through at the most unassuming times.<\/p>\n<p>For better or for worse, Swift\u2019s music is usually about her: how a particular ex has broken her heart, the media abuses her, how she would be more successful if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taylor-swift-id-be-the-man-if-i-were-a-man\">she were a man<\/a>. But in \u201cBigger Than the Whole Sky,\u201d Swift appears to take on the perspective of a grieving mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoodbye, goodbye, goodbye \/ You were bigger than the whole sky \/ You were more than just a short time \/ And I\u2019ve got a lot to pine about, I\u2019ve got a lot to live without,\u201d she sings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the song could be about any number of things, from mourning the person she could have been to the loss of a relationship, many listeners have speculated that it\u2019s about grieving a miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m never gonna meet \/ What could\u2019ve been, would\u2019ve been \/ What should\u2019ve been you \/ What could\u2019ve been, would\u2019ve been you,\u201d Swift sings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The song resonated with many women: Lila Rose, president of the pro-life group LiveAction, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilaGraceRose\/status\/1583564274655379456\">tweeted<\/a> that the song had her thinking of her own miscarriage. \u201cThe missing never fully goes away,\u201d she said. \u201cNot sure if that\u2019s what you intended the song to be about, Taylor, but thank you for writing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift has never said anything about experiencing a miscarriage, but, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarcasticerVeg\/status\/1583364097415921664\">according<\/a> to one listener, she \u201conce said she wanted people to have a song for every moment of their life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBigger Than the Whole Sky\u201d grasps at the universality of grief \u2014\u00a0but only by describing a specific experience, so beautifully written that it could only be about something the author has seen up close.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the album, Swift appears to sing about past relationships with celebrities from Calvin Harris to John Mayer. On \u201cLavender Haze,\u201d she focuses on current beau Joe Alwyn, whom she has been dating for six years. If you\u2019re thinking that\u2019s a long time to be in a relationship with no ring in sight, you\u2019re in good company. Swift responds to engagement rumors and questions by complaining about \u201cthe 1950s s*** they want from me,\u201d singing, \u201cAll they keep asking me \/ Is if I\u2019m gonna be your bride \/ The only kinda girl they see \/ Is a one night or a wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLavender Haze\u201d is a love song, with the title referring to a 1950s phrase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-reveals-mad-men-inspiration-behind-midnights-track-lavender-haze-3327307\">describing<\/a> an \u201call-encompassing love glow.\u201d Swift says in an Instagram video that the song is about ignoring the tabloids\u2019 headline-chasing \u201cto protect the real stuff.\u201d It\u2019s admirable that Swift wants to protect her relationship from the unrelenting gaze of the chattering class, but this song might have been more fitting a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it leaves one wondering what\u2019s so retrograde about marrying someone you\u2019ve spent over half a decade with. Is it the institution of marriage itself? Or is this about preserving her image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has returned to her roots. After releasing songs in the past few years with lyrics like \u201cf*** the patriarchy\u201d and \u201cWhy are you mad? \/ When you could be GLAAD?\u201d her latest album is largely a return to pre-2018 Swift, one who wasn\u2019t \u201cobsessed with politics\u201d and one who sang about universal experiences: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}