Taylor Swift’s tenth album ‘Midnights’ crashes Spotify
By AFP
LOS ANGELES: Taylor Swift’s tenth album “Midnights,” marking a gradual return to pop for the US singer-songwriter, sparked a web-based fan frenzy following its witching hour launch on Friday — and crashed Spotify within the course of.
Swifties from the United States to France and Britain have been pressured to attend patiently for hours to get their first earful of Swift’s newest sound on the streaming platform — launched on the stroke of midnight.
Despite the technical issues, the massively anticipated work set a file because the most-streamed album in a day, Spotify mentioned.
“And before the clock could even strike midnight on October 22nd, Taylor Swift broke the record for most-streamed album in a single day in Spotify history,” the platform mentioned on Twitter.
“How did I get this lucky, having you guys out here doing something this mind blowing?!,” the singer tweeted in response.
The album’s 13 songs inform “the story of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life,” Swift defined on Twitter.
Together, they type “a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour.”
Once all Spotify points have been resolved — principally throughout the hour — fans found melodies set to an electro-pop beat, full with synths, dubstep-inspired rhythms and a extra androgynous aspect to Swift’s vocals.
The 32-year-old, who started her profession in nation earlier than shifting to pop and changing into a megastar, abandons her newer indie-folk vein within the new album.
The pop sound marks a departure from “Evermore” and “Folklore,” her two earlier albums which have been written throughout the pandemic, the latter of which received Album of the Year on the 2021 Grammys.
In “Midnights,” which incorporates the sleek vocals of Lana Del Rey within the duet “Snow on the Beach,” Swift evokes a sure dreamy mystique, full with nighttime ruminations — her reflections on rising older and the problems of affection.
For probably the most half, the midnight album has bewitched critics.
It was warmly acquired by The Guardian which known as it a “cool, collected and mature” compendium, “packed with fantastic songs.”
One caveat, nonetheless, has been its lack of a catchy title music: “It’s hard to spot anything that sounds like a smash hit on Swift’s third muted collection in a row,” The Independent newspaper lamented.
True to Swift type, the songstress had a shock up her sleeves for her loyal followers. She launched an prolonged 20-song model at 3:00 am on the East Coast titled “Midnights (3am Edition).” The seven additional ballads, she mentioned, have been “songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13.”
LOS ANGELES: Taylor Swift’s tenth album “Midnights,” marking a gradual return to pop for the US singer-songwriter, sparked a web-based fan frenzy following its witching hour launch on Friday — and crashed Spotify within the course of.
Swifties from the United States to France and Britain have been pressured to attend patiently for hours to get their first earful of Swift’s newest sound on the streaming platform — launched on the stroke of midnight.
Despite the technical issues, the massively anticipated work set a file because the most-streamed album in a day, Spotify mentioned.
“And before the clock could even strike midnight on October 22nd, Taylor Swift broke the record for most-streamed album in a single day in Spotify history,” the platform mentioned on Twitter.
“How did I get this lucky, having you guys out here doing something this mind blowing?!,” the singer tweeted in response.
The album’s 13 songs inform “the story of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life,” Swift defined on Twitter.
Together, they type “a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour.”
Once all Spotify points have been resolved — principally throughout the hour — fans found melodies set to an electro-pop beat, full with synths, dubstep-inspired rhythms and a extra androgynous aspect to Swift’s vocals.
The 32-year-old, who started her profession in nation earlier than shifting to pop and changing into a megastar, abandons her newer indie-folk vein within the new album.
The pop sound marks a departure from “Evermore” and “Folklore,” her two earlier albums which have been written throughout the pandemic, the latter of which received Album of the Year on the 2021 Grammys.
In “Midnights,” which incorporates the sleek vocals of Lana Del Rey within the duet “Snow on the Beach,” Swift evokes a sure dreamy mystique, full with nighttime ruminations — her reflections on rising older and the problems of affection.
For probably the most half, the midnight album has bewitched critics.
It was warmly acquired by The Guardian which known as it a “cool, collected and mature” compendium, “packed with fantastic songs.”
One caveat, nonetheless, has been its lack of a catchy title music: “It’s hard to spot anything that sounds like a smash hit on Swift’s third muted collection in a row,” The Independent newspaper lamented.
True to Swift type, the songstress had a shock up her sleeves for her loyal followers. She launched an prolonged 20-song model at 3:00 am on the East Coast titled “Midnights (3am Edition).” The seven additional ballads, she mentioned, have been “songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13.”
