Midnights Declassified: Two Years of Revelations

Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Podcast

The Snakes & Studio71

Society & Culture, Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Snakes revisit Taylor Swift’s most amorphous and ambiguous record to date: her tenth studio album, Midnights. Has ambiguity persisted or ceased after two years of shocking revelations –– from the Joever of it all to the Matty Healy interlude? Diving deep into the lyrics on each track, pared with the luxury of hindsight, an answer to this Question…? is found. Subscribe to our Patreon for an extra hour of Phone a Snake every week: https://www.patreon.com/swiftologist https://bit.ly/evolutionofasnake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.7	I'm Zach.
0:46.5	And I'm Madeline.
0:47.6	And this is Midnights in hindsight.
0:50.3	Midnights revisited for the 10th millionth time. Pink Friday remix, reloaded, revamped, reimagined it, the pink print.
1:00.5	We are here today to dissect midnights once again. And this was a listener's suggestion.
1:06.3	And I chafed at this because I was like, I've made, I individually have made like three videos
1:11.8	revisiting Midnights. We've also visited the playlists. We've talked about this ad nauseum. But you
1:17.1	know what, Madeline, when I was going through and doing my notes today, I had more shit to say.
1:22.6	There's always more to say about Midnights. That Midnights is an ever-changing album to me, man.
1:30.1	I think there was a time where you might have described it as this, or we might have
1:33.5	described it as this, where it's almost like it was alive for a while.
1:37.3	It was so much a part of the ERAs tour, so completely, inextricably linked to the Aerosaur, which was ongoing.
1:45.8	So it just felt like it was constantly shifting and changing right before our eyes.
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