The album Midnights by the American singer is considered “the story of thirteen sleepless nights in her life”. It also highlights, apart from that nighttime theme that immediately gets you involved, what an incredibly productive pop woman Swift is. That extreme drive to work! This is already her fifth studio album in the past two years.

It is, after years of legal tug-of-war, Taylor Swift's ultimate revenge. By losing the rights to her original master tapes — she sold her label outside her mind — the pop star saw her musical heritage evaporate. By re-recording her first six records, she usurps her songs again. What a tough master move. As a result, fanfavo 'All Too Well' now lasts ten minutes; a tearjerker in which Swift's storytelling talent in songs manifested itself early on.

Normally, she writes stories that happen in real time, as if people were reading her diary. That fits the zeitgeist, that has always been its charm. But in quarantine, the megastar has immersed herself in introspection, fantasy, fairy tales and the past. It creates the numbers Folklore no less honest, quite the contrary.

In Evermore Taylor sings in a sweet voice, she omits the curly. Producer Dessner combined acoustic guitar and piano with subtle drum computers and synthesizers that hang between the sounds like a blur. Some of the songs got a stronger beat,

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