Midnights Tracks in Chronological Order

 

You're on Your Own, Kid

breaking into the industry to moving to NY

Midnight Rain

Promo relationships start with co-star of Valentine's Day movie

Would've Could've Should've

Bearding is toxic. Coming out is terrifying. Closeting is necessary.

High Infidelity

Rift between expectations and what Taylor wants. 

Snow on the Beach

Meeting someone who blew Taylor's mind, especially since the relationship was weird, but exceptional. Taylor's eyes were opened to queer love.

Mastermind

Taylor learns to harness PR and the media in her favor. She plays the game and strategizes to keep her good image. She also orchestrates beards and love.

Paris

Taylor and her lover have places they can hide. She enjoys secret rendezvous with her female lover, and daydreams of having more.

Lavender Haze

Taylor walks the thin line between pandering to what her media and fans want and glass closeting to appease herself. She won't come out, but isn't as repressed either.

Question

Kissgate ruins everything.

Maroon

Taylor's queer lover abandons her and so do a lot of fans.

Karma

Snakegate and the industry put the kabash on Taylor's coming out album, Karma. They'll get theirs in the end!

Labyrinth

Taylor has to learn to pivot and adjust to pressures from all side. Karma is scrapped, but Reputation gives Taylor's career a third life.

Sweet Nothing

Taylor goes into hiding. Her friend group and trusted circle is pared down. Her mom, per the usual, stands by her side no matter what. She has a beard but is "private" so not nearly as performative and fake. Her solution to scrutiny is to go dark.

The Great War

Kaylor break-up and Master's Heist ruins the planned coming out. Three big, horrible events coincide and Taylor goes from rainbow to black. A deep depression is pervasive.

Vigilante Shit

Anger stage of grief. Taylor wants to lash out at everyone from the great war.

Bigger than the Whole Sky

The losses are too much. For 4 albums/4.5 eras, Taylor mourns and grieves.

Anti-Hero

The general public calls Taylor out for abandoning her Lover-era promises of being more political. The gays reject her big coming out as "queer baiting". Taylor is divisive and begins to teach everyone about how she's had to fracture to get to where she is.

Bejeweled

The beard unceremoniously leaves. Taylor is recharged and ready to get out there again. Plans are in place, schemes are set in motion. Things are happening and there's a marked change in Taylor's demeanor and image.

Dear Reader

Gaylors get their hopes up, and Taylor teeters, trying to manage expectations. But there's secret plans also--will they come to fruition this time?

Glitch

This is it. It's happening. The deviation from the Taylor Swift, change in image. What will it be and when?