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    The Beautiful Banality of Taylor Swift’s <em>Midnights</em>

    The album treads aggressively familiar territory—but with new wisdom and confidence.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Oct 21, 2022 3 minutes
    Source: Beth Garrabrant

    These days on the internet, the term refers to something between a rumor and a prayer: a wish so commonly expressed that it starts to seem true. And a very particular wish fueled about Taylor Swift’s tenth original studio album, . Fans who speculated that she was about to come out as pansexual, or make a -level masterpiece of soft rock, or finally manage to quiet down Kanye West for good all wanted the same thing: a breakthrough. Maybe Taylor Swift would be different—she could free us from our own banality.

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