Midnights
by Taylor Swift
  • Record Label: Republic
  • Release Date: Oct 21, 2022
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 3039 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,467 out of 3039
  2. Mixed: 155 out of 3039
  3. Negative: 417 out of 3039
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  1. AliceTx
    Oct 21, 2022
    2
    Whole album was a cash grab, 20 versions and for what ? She didn’t release a lead single because she knew if people heard how it was going to sound her streaming numbers would be low, nothing on the album stands apart from the rest it all sounds the same, it’s nothing we’ve heard before from her, lazy lyrics, boring melodies, monotonous voice, whole thing should have been scrapped
  2. IlReverendo
    Dec 17, 2022
    0
    How in the hell is this popular and critically revered pop music? This is incredibly bland, banal crap
  3. JxckCyrxs
    Mar 10, 2023
    1
    Very, very generic and lacks life, like most of Taylor Swift’s music and albums, unfortunately. Don’t have a clue how it charted like it did, except for the fact that most of the public prefer flat, mainstream music and aren’t open to changing/expanding their view of artists out there.
  4. arthurmeta
    Nov 29, 2022
    2
    I think it's generic and just not the kind of album the interests me. Also I think all her style and music is corny
  5. carolina013
    Nov 11, 2022
    2
    Taylor just proved how basic she is. If you listen to her discography, you’ll never know which album the song is from because everything sounds exactly the same, never changes. And the fact that she insists on bringing up one hundred different versions of the same song is really annoying.
  6. naed_luc
    Mar 5, 2023
    0
    OMG! This album is a trash, tha only good song is " MIdnigtht rain ". Please do better
  7. Gusttavobuter
    Feb 16, 2023
    0
    bland album, taylor never breaks new ground she should do something different at least once
  8. angelarixo
    Mar 17, 2023
    0
    Terrible and BORING as usual, no good vocals and overall one of the worst albums of all time. Massive downgrade, she’s been in her flop era and hasn’t had a single good album. Overall boring, terrible production, horrible autotune, lazy lyricism, and pure TRASH. She shouldn’t have dated min0rs and built like a tayble, horrible nasty woman.
  9. CTRLTZA
    Dec 10, 2022
    3
    Lack of development throughout the album. Only liked the opening track "Lavender Haze" which is ironic because Zoe Kravtiz co-wrote it showing Taylor needs to actually work with black women more for good quality songs! Everything after Lavender Haze got boring and snoozefesty. Majority of the album tracks sounded the same with no texture. Her 3am tracks sounded a lot better than what isLack of development throughout the album. Only liked the opening track "Lavender Haze" which is ironic because Zoe Kravtiz co-wrote it showing Taylor needs to actually work with black women more for good quality songs! Everything after Lavender Haze got boring and snoozefesty. Majority of the album tracks sounded the same with no texture. Her 3am tracks sounded a lot better than what is actually on the album. Probably her most MID album to date hench the name MIDnights.… Expand
  10. Hhuhvv
    Oct 21, 2022
    2
    I feel like I am missing something with everyone praising this album and it getting good reviews. To me it’s just not that good, her worst and weakest album to date. The melodies go absolutely nowhere, vocal melodies are so boring and the production is plain, there’s no vocal range, Taylor stays in the same register the entire time, lyrics are not so great either, throwing in a few bigI feel like I am missing something with everyone praising this album and it getting good reviews. To me it’s just not that good, her worst and weakest album to date. The melodies go absolutely nowhere, vocal melodies are so boring and the production is plain, there’s no vocal range, Taylor stays in the same register the entire time, lyrics are not so great either, throwing in a few big words doesnt necessarily make a song good, feels like her tackiest juvenile lyrics yet. It doesnt sound like a taylor swift album. Snow On The Beach is decent and anti hero is a grower but thats it. Not one good hook or amazing bridge something she is very well known for. The songs just sort drag on, like you are waiting for something to happen and it just doesnt. She used Lana as a selling point and she barley sung on the song apart from one line. Its like jack told her 'hey go read some monotone poetry' and write lyrics like that and I’ll do some boring synth work over the rest. It’s basically sounds like a bad jack antonoff album to me, not a Taylor swift one. I think she needs to stop working with him, hes boring and doesn’t challenge her and most of his stuff all sounds the same. I don’t know how swift can go from writing songs like Dear John on her own at 19 to whatever this mess is, like I expected hard hitting lyrics the way she describe this album but to me it sounds like something a semi decent 19yr old pop singer today would write. If any other artist released this I wouldn’t have listened to it, and if any other artist released this I doubt they’d be getting the same hype. It feels like nothing but favouritism to me at this point, anything she does gets praised no matter if its good or bad, anyone who dares gives her constructive criticism is deemed a hater and that’s the problem critics are afraid of getting blacklisted or attacked by her or her fans and when you have an entire fandom that are yes people there is zero room for growth. Overall an underwhelming album that isn’t that enjoyable to listen to and something that is forgettable, I’ve listened to it over and over the past day and not one lyric or melody has stuck or played in my head, something that always happens with a swift album and this is coming from a swiftie since 2007.… Expand
  11. americana
    Oct 24, 2022
    2
    Nothing new, same sound, mid lyrics. She needs to stop making music for a few years to understand which direction to go since 2019 she has released mediocre material and impulsively dropped albums does not help the artist's creativity even if it satisfies your fan base which in this particular case is mainly a white demography.
  12. pallomagitahy
    Oct 21, 2022
    0
    o álbum faz referências a outros álbuns da loirinha de uma maneira excelente. ótimo álbum
  13. TheMrNova
    Oct 22, 2022
    0
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  14. AngelloBlow
    Oct 22, 2022
    0
    Feels like lover aound. repetitive bored y sobrevalorada. en fin. algun dia se darán cuenta.
  15. Epicurus
    Oct 22, 2022
    0
    Nahhhhhhhhhhhhbbbbbhhhhhbbbbbbbbhhhhhhhhbbbbbbbbbbbbhhhhhhhhhhhhhbbbbbhhhhhhh
  16. xamarova
    Oct 22, 2022
    3
    Un poco decepcionante, ya que se esperaba más de este álbum pero resultó ser lo mismo.
  17. andrewyoules
    Oct 22, 2022
    1
    i hate swifties and this is a snooze fest and sounds **** and taylor is a horrible witch
  18. Guzmant
    Nov 5, 2022
    3
    Taylor's worst album by a long shot. lyrically it's nothing special for her standards and the additional songs go against the album concept but the biggest disappointment is the production, the songs sound extremely unpolished.
  19. RisforRolas
    Oct 23, 2022
    2
    Same old sh**
    Not surprised, at this point the last thing you can expect from someone over-releasing music just for charts is little bit of fresh and good music.
  20. SUNVRISES
    Oct 21, 2022
    3
    Cute songs and some are actually good lyrically but nothing innovative and actually disappointing considering how it was anticipated. Just a mix, mashup, follow-up of the previous pop albums (1989, reputation, Lover). bonus tracks are somehow way better than the actual album, some recalling folkmore/evermore as well, but again, disappointing because you expect a masterpiece from TaylorCute songs and some are actually good lyrically but nothing innovative and actually disappointing considering how it was anticipated. Just a mix, mashup, follow-up of the previous pop albums (1989, reputation, Lover). bonus tracks are somehow way better than the actual album, some recalling folkmore/evermore as well, but again, disappointing because you expect a masterpiece from Taylor Swift, not a copycat.… Expand
  21. savking
    Oct 21, 2022
    0
    she is the most basic artist to exist, she doesn’t serve anything and never comes up with new music it’s giving old people music and the music is cringe!
  22. Zanney
    Oct 22, 2022
    3
    All the songs sounds the same. Dissapointed with this one. It was really boring
  23. Geoina
    Oct 22, 2022
    3
    Fair album on a downward spiral for an artist like Taylor Swift considering her other great works I've Reputation and Folklore
  24. santttttino
    Oct 21, 2022
    2
    Un álbum qie no me termina de cerrar, ese intento de electro pop que no fue bien realizado. Se rescatan apenas 3/4 canciones
  25. Lucas25
    Oct 21, 2022
    2
    Reputation mudou de nome rsrs sério gente acabei de escutar todo o álbum não deu pra mim quanto fã dela achei às músicas monótonas parecem que são todas descartes do Reputation tava parecendo q ouvi sempre a mesma música poucas mesmo eu curti de 1/3 músicas pensei que seria mesmo vibe anos 60 um rock falavam tanto q ela viria com uma sonoridade diferente desre esstilo provisório e nãoReputation mudou de nome rsrs sério gente acabei de escutar todo o álbum não deu pra mim quanto fã dela achei às músicas monótonas parecem que são todas descartes do Reputation tava parecendo q ouvi sempre a mesma música poucas mesmo eu curti de 1/3 músicas pensei que seria mesmo vibe anos 60 um rock falavam tanto q ela viria com uma sonoridade diferente desre esstilo provisório e não duvido nada que esse Jack Antonoff falou pra ela deletar o repertório todo e fazer novos arranjos monte de trap pop de 2017 affff essa sonoridade manjada não tem mais novidade nenhuma pra mim um balde de água fria pra mim do lead single foi das poucas que amei o Anti Hero pq o resto não consegui engoli tem faixas do Lado B que deviam ficar no Lado A pq da primeira faixa até a 13 que foi a tracklist originsl postada no streaming são bem REPUTATION/LOVER admito que até gostei dela voltar a fazer música pop mas antes eu ouvindo pensei que teria batidões pop eu esperava outra coisa sim vão me desculpar mas esse novo álbum teve tanta divulgação alta pra vir com um repertório simples dele afffff curti não... só bastou chamarem esse tal Sonoloff aí que não era pra na produção bem pé frio não gosto dele sempre digo q a Taylor devia largar de não desse cara e procurar produtores novos… Expand
  26. spawelcz
    Oct 22, 2022
    3
    Instrumentally there is nothing to discuss other than a basic drum machine, vocally there isn't many hooks or melodies to really draw you in. It's a very lyrically focused album, but unless you're already a Taylor Swift fan there isn't much to keep you around to really listen to those lyrics.
  27. Beanie98
    Oct 22, 2022
    2
    Taylor Swift's worst offering yet.

    There are only two songs I have any recollection of after listening (Anti-Hero & Karma) and the rest are either unmemorable or sound the same (or both). The lyrics sound like she put her discography, some words she thought sounded nice, profanity, and some pop culture references into EI and this is what popped out. It's cringy and incoherent and she uses    Taylor Swift's worst offering yet.

    There are only two songs I have any recollection of after listening (Anti-Hero & Karma) and the rest are either unmemorable or sound the same (or both). The lyrics sound like she put her discography, some words she thought sounded nice, profanity, and some pop culture references into EI and this is what popped out. It's cringy and incoherent and she uses too many vocal effects. It sounds like she both hates herself and is obsessed with herself and revenge and desperately wants you to think she is a badass. There are many cringy lyrics such as "Karma is a cat purring in my lap" and "Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby and I'm a monster on the hill." One would hope these were cheeky songs, except she sounds like she is trying to be sensual. I'm not a Taylor-hater by nature either. I was a fan for the majority of her career but this is all the worst elements of her music put together and amplified. Listening to this album truly felt like she was trying to see if she could put out terrible music and still dominate the charts and have critical acclaim due to her name-powet. It is a cringy and disappointing offering.    … Expand
  28. MGC90
    Oct 22, 2022
    3
    Boring and safe. Nothing new, the same melodies AND music. We can live without this album
  29. Hemabisht
    Oct 22, 2022
    2
    Same sound as previous album…wish she would do something more like folklore and evermore
  30. sismaiii
    Oct 22, 2022
    3
    Taylor has released better albums in the past. This one doesn’t hit the way it should. Just wish this album had what the others did.
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85

Universal acclaim - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. PopMatters
    Nov 4, 2022
    90
    It allows Swift to do what she has always wanted: make an album for its own sake that is received primarily as a work of art instead of a commercial entity or tabloid fodder.
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  2. PopMatters
    Nov 2, 2022
    80
    It is very good. ... There are no major missteps within the album, although not everything works as well as the album’s brightest spots.
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  3. musicOMH.com
    Oct 31, 2022
    80
    While her 10th album doesn’t make instant classic status like 1989, and Evermore and Folklore remain her masterpieces, it is still an understated, beguiling look into the mind of one of the biggest pop stars of our age.
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