Review: Out of the woods, Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' heralds the return of a pop-music mastermind
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Oct 21, 2022
4 minutes
Taylor Swift's pin-sharp new album, "Midnights," closes with a song in which the pop superstar patiently explains to someone — perhaps many millions of someones — that their intimate relationship wasn't a product of kismet but of design.
"I laid the groundwork," she sings over a blippy electronic groove, her voice edging slightly ahead of the beat, "and then just like clockwork the dominoes cascaded in a line." The tune is called "Mastermind," which is what Swift calls herself in the chorus, neatly rhyming the word with "now you're mine." And plenty of its characteristic detail can make you think she's describing a romance. But
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