Releases at midnight tonight (4/19)

From a glance, this album looks to be dark and about the break up with Joe Alwyn after dating for 6 years. Taylor has some pretty good features on the song lineup.

1. "Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone)

2. "The Tortured Poets Department"

3. "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"

4. "Down Bad"

5. "So Long, London"

6. "But Daddy I Love Him"

7. "Fresh Out the Slammer"

8. "Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine)

9. "Guilty as Sin?"

10. "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"

11. "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"

12. "Loml"

13. "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"

14. "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"

15. "The Alchemy"

16. "Clara Bow"

And there are tons of "bonus editions"

a post malone collab, interesting.

My daughter wants. Should I order on amazon, or walk into best buy tomorrow?

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dummble said:

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My daughter wants. Should I order on amazon, or walk into best buy tomorrow?

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Barns and Nobles has a bunch of Midnights Vinyl

Streaming or Records is the future! CDs?

I'm sure Best Buy have them, call and ask!

In reply to Aggie Therapist I am leaning towards CD since that is impulse pricing and vinyl is entering gift territory.

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walton91 said:

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Girlfriend pre-ordered vinyl the night TS announced the album at the Grammys. Then she ordered The Manuscript edition from Target saying it was exclusive to Target. I am now going to burn my phone and deny that I ever saw your post showing there are THREE more special editions

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Oh…..she knows…..

In reply to Aggie Therapist And come on man... I know you are in Austin. The album does not drop at midnight... it's 10:59 Central 4/18 tonight.

For the above poster with a daughter, stream it on Spotify tonight.

In reply to TCTTS

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For the first time I'm starting to see a real backlash among some of her fans who have already heard the leaked version, as it's apparently not great/basically just sounds like Midnights 2.0 / Midnights B-Sides. The marketing/marketing materials have been pretty lacking/uninspired as well, while the whole thing to me just feels kind of half-assed and rushed this go around, which is obviously the total opposite of how most of her album releases feel..

I unabashedly like Swift and her music, but the album announcement at the Grammys felt way too soon and even a little cringe, if I'm being honest. She was on top of the world in 2023, bigger than any artist since Michael Jackson, and IMO she needed to take a break after The Eras Tour, leave her fans wanting more, and then come back in 2025 with new music.

Then again, the reactions I've read could just be from haters, the album itself could be great, and I'll of course give it a shot tonight. We shall see...

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Whatever the marketing is, it is working. This is the most hype I've seen around an album since thriller.

As far as early reviews go, I'll bet they are full of *****

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Tabasco said:

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Beatles released 2 albums a year

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MMT was considered the lesser of the albums one year. And it had I am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields, All You Need is Love and Penny lane, not to mention the closing song to one of the best movies of this century.

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TCTTS said:

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Since Thriller? Seriously?

Lover, Reputation, and 1989 were each hyped far more than this album.

The general sentiment I've continually seen these past couple of weeks is literally how little this album is being promoted comparatively, even by Swift herself. It's bizarre. For one, she didn't even release a single from it ahead of time, something she's otherwise done for nearly every album. She's hardly done any kind of count down either, she hasn't made a single appearance yet, etc. Not to mention, the marketing materials she released at whatever library earlier this week were getting dunked on for featuring typos and just looking cheap in general.

Again, I like her! I want this album to be good!

But so far the build up has been an objective step down from her behemoth efforts of the past.

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I guess I just missed all those official discussion threads on the entertainment board that were happening when they came out.

In reply to Another Doug I'm obviously talking about online in general.

In reply to TCTTS

TCTTS said:

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I'm obviously talking about online in general.

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I'm speaking from my perspective as a 47 yo man. I wasn't even aware of those albums existence when they came out. She is obviously on another level of stardom this time if we are talking about it here.

In reply to TCTTS No single release for fokelore (no marketing, announced an hour or two before) or evermore (announced a week before). I think from a financial success standpoint, she is doing pretty well.

In reply to Tabasco Both pandemic releases, and purposely marketed as much. Which is why I left those two out.

Also, in no way am I saying she's not doing well financially, or even implying as much. She's a certified billionaire at this point, and when all is said and done she'll probably go down in history as the one of the top grossing artists of all time.

For the umpteenth time, I'm simply saying that, for the first time in, like, a decade, I'm seeing some genuine Taylor Swift backlash, even among her fans, both in how soon this album is coming out, and in the responses so far to the album itself. The impression some people have is that after she achieved unprecedented global dominance last year, she couldn't step away and let the spotlight fade for a bit. She just rolled right into the next thing, and it feels like maybe she might be killing some of the massive goodwill she's built up.

I hope not!

We'll see!

The general public only has a stomach for a certain amount of success before they turn and attempt to tear down those whom they previously revered. It's an interesting phenomenon and a pretty gross one. I wouldn't be surprised to see Swift fall victim to that to some degree, but I doubt her complete downfall is anytime soon.

For what it's worth, the algorithm feeds me a ton of Swift-related content and I've seen nothing but pure hype since she announced the album and nothing but positive stuff about all the marketing popping up this week. My girls range in age from 21-10 and all three of them are incredibly excited. The 21-year-old just sent me a leaked mp3 of "Fortnight" that she downloaded from god knows where. She's already listened to it more than 10 times. She's staying up with friends and roommates to listen at midnight. The 10-year-old is planning to get up an hour early tomorrow morning so she can listen to the whole album before school. So, from my perspective at least, there seems to be just as much hype as there has been in the past.

In reply to Tabasco

Tabasco said:

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And come on man... I know you are in Austin. The album does not drop at midnight... it's 10:59 Central 4/18 tonight.

For the above poster with a daughter, stream it on Spotify tonight.

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Just left the office…..I have drill tomorrow and have to take off my civilian job. I've figured out that I don't trust anyone but me to document correctly and square things away.

Trying to avoid a total mess Monday morning when I come back.

Current set up……we're moving offices soon…

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Another Doug said:

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Tabasco said:

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Beatles released 2 albums a year

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MMT was considered the lesser of the albums one year. And it had I am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields, All You Need is Love and Penny lane, not to mention the closing song to one of the best movies of this century.

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Not to derail, but what movie?

I would say there isn't much marketing for this album, wouldn't know it was coming out if it wasn't for this thread, but I'm not the target demographic.