1989 Taylor’s Version: Midnight Release Thoughts 🎼
With 13 minutes to go until 1989 Taylor’s Version is released into the world, I am SO incredibly excited to revisit this album!! I can’t believe I’m the same age now as Taylor was when 1989 originally released - there’s something so magical about being 25 and revisiting these feelings with someone that has written the soundtrack to my life.
Unlike my previous midnight listening parties, I’m choosing to be a Swiftie heathen tonight and start with the Vault tracks instead of listening to the album all the way through! Enjoy my random thoughts on each track 💙
From the Vault
🎶 It’s a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat 🎶
Slut!
oh no it’s a slow build, I really wanted this to be an empowering, girlypop anthem and it’s definitely not
What if all I need is you?
But if I'm all dressed up
They might as well be lookin’ at us
And if they call me a slut
You know it might be worth it for once
And if I'm gonna be drunkI might as well be drunk in love
This Vault track seems misplaced to me, it’s really giving me Midnights vibes!
💙 Say Don’t Go
CLEAN’S SISTER, RIGHT OFF THE BAT, CALLING IT
I’m holding out hope for you to say don’t go
I would stay forever if you say don’t go
YESSS ANTHEM
This is so 1989-coded my heart is happy
The build up from verse to chorus to bridge is MAGNIFICENT
The synth is SO GOOD? this production quality is going HARD
💙 Now That We Don’t Talk
oh this is gonna hurt isn’t it
I miss the old ways You didn't have to change But I guess I don't have a say Now that we don't talk
I cannot be your friend, so I pay the price of what I lost And what it cost, now that we don't talk
THIS IS HURTING ME, TAYLOR
I don't have to pretend I like acid rock
Or that I'd like to be on a mega yacht
With important men who think important thoughts
Guess maybe I am better off now that we don't talk
And the only way back to my dignity
Was to turn into a shrouded mystery
Just like I had seen when you were chasing me
Guess this is how it was to be
now that we don't talk
oh the outro is goooood
💙 Suburban Legends
You were so magnetic it was almost obnoxious
Flush with the currency of cool
The quotes from these lyrics are going to be eeeeverywhere
I had the fantasy that maybe our mismatched star signs
Would surprise the whole school
When I ended up back at our class reunion
Walkin' in with you
You'd be more than a chapter in my old diaries
With the pages ripped out
I am standin' in a 1950s gymnasium
And I can still see you now
AGAIN, THE SYNTH IS SO GOOD !!!
I broke my own heart 'cause you were too polite to do it
😭😭😭😭😭
💙 Is It Over Now?
"Come here," I whispered in your ear
In your drеam as you passed out, baby
Was it over then? And is it ovеr now?
AAHHHH
At least I had the decency
To keep my nights out of sight
Only rumors 'bout my hips and thighs
And my whispered sighs
OH LORD
TAYLOR IS F E E D I N G US, THIS BRIDGE GOES SO HARD
IF SHE’S GOT BLUE EYES, I WILL SURMISE THAT YOU’LL PROBABLY DATE HER
OMFG
Track List
Welcome to New York
The synth is rattling my bones, as it should
I never purposefully listen to this song and I always forget that I love it until it comes on??
Blank Space
Love's a game, wanna play?" Ayyyyeee
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game
All I can picture now is Taylor and Travis, awww
god the kick drum is SO CLEAN the audio quality is chefs kiss
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn yaaaa-aaa-aaaaa
SING IT TAYLOR
*pen click* 🖊️
💙 Style
STYLE, HERE WE GOOOO
There’s a new ✨ twinkly ✨ something added in the instrument mix and while I have no idea what it could be, I AM OBSESSED WITH IT
💙 Out Of The Woods
I literally had to pause for a second before pressing play on OOTW, this is one of my FAVORITE 1989 songs so I’m sitting here trying to get my heart to stop racing
OH!?!!?
OMG SHE SOUNDS NEW
the echos are goooood I have goosebumps
This upgraded intro sounds sooooo good
I can’t stop thinking about how we n e e d the Era’s Tour version of this song, I NEED HER GROWLS AND OPT UPS
OH I REMEMBERRR
All You Had To Do Was Stay
Again, a classic 1989 banger, I looove this song
But people like me are gone forever
When you say goodbye
Shake It Off
IT’S GONNA BE ALL RIIIIGHT 👏👏👏
💙 I Wish You Would
ONE OF MY FAVES, HERE WE GO
You always knew how to push my buttons
You give me everything and nothin'
This mad, mad love makes you come runnin'
To stand back where you stood I wish you would, I wish you would
This is so nostalgic for me, I gotta keep it together, I’m getting EMO
I wish you knew that I'd never forget you as long as I live and I Wish you were right here, right now, it's all good
Bad Blood
Ah yes, everyone’s restroom break song during The Eras Tour
OKAAAY INTRO DRUMS
Band-aids don't fix bullet holes You say sorry just for show If you live like that, you live with ghosts
YOU FORGIVE YOU FORGET BUT YOU NEVER LET IT, G O
If you love like that, blood runs COOOOOOOOOLD
Wildest Dreams
I said, "No one has to know what wе do"His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room
And his voicе is a familiar sound
Nothin' lasts forever
But this is gettin' good now
This has ALWAYS been my fave verse, it hits different
The bridge still slaps ☺️☺️☺️
💙 How You Get The Girl
And you were too afraid to tell her what you want, want
And that's how it works That's how you get the girl And then, you say
I want you for worse or for better I would wait forever and ever Broke your heart, I'll put it back together I would wait forever and ever
She is LITERALLY GIVING GUYS THE BLUEPRINT
This Love
To be honest I’ve always been ambivalent to This Love - this was fine!
I Know Places
HERE WE GOOOO
Vocals, instruments, this is so elevated, thank you Mother !!!
Clean
here come the water works 😭
It was months and months of back and forth, ah, ah
You're still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore
The water filled my lungs
I screamed so loud, but no one heard a thing
The rain came pouring down when I was drowning
That's when I could finally breathe
And by morning, gone was any trace of you
I think I am finally clean
Now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it
💙 Wonderland
Wonderland has been one of my immediate favorites since original release, I’m GIDDY starting this
We found Wonderland, you and I got lost in it And life was never worse, but nevеr better
In Wonderland
You searched the world for somethin' else
To make you feel like what we had
And in the end, in Wonderland, we both went mad
OhhhHHHHHH
You Are In Love
This is such an angsty song, lets goooo
No proof, not much, but you saw enough
And your shoulders brush
No proof, one touch, but you felt enough
One night, he wakes
Strange look on his face
Pauses, then says "You're my best friend"
And you knew what it was, he is in love
She sounds absolutely ANGELIC, THIS PRODUCTION QUIALITY IS INSANE
And you understand now
Why they lost their minds and fought the wars
And why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words
'Cause you can hear it in the silence
You can feel it on the way home
You can see it with the lights out
You are in love, true love
New Romantics
Same with This Love, New Romantics is fun but nowhere near the top of my list - this was fine!
