Show Notes
Eras:
- Midnights Era
- Color: Navy Blue
- Years: 2022-present
- “Vintage”
- Loneliness
- Overnight
- Mayhem at Midnights (how we got the track listing)
- Lindsay Zoladz wrote in The New York Times, “Here, Swift sounds more authentically like an ambassador of millennial unease than she has in some time.”
- Midnights actually takes cues from every one of Swift’s past albums, melting them into a brew potent enough to stand on its own.
- “This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams,” she wrote. “The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching — hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes twelve … we’ll meet ourselves.” https://taylorswiftswitzerland.ch/index.php/album-eras/midnights-era/
- Our Eras:
- When did we first listen to this album
- @Megan stayed up until midnight to listen to it the first time. And then woke to the surprise of the 3am version!
- How we each defined “Midnights”
- When did we first listen to this album
- The Stories
- @Megan
- Nicodemus – John 3:1-21
- Question…?
- Can I ask you a question
- Question…?
- Praying at the garden- Matthew 26:36-46, Luke 22:40-46, Mark 14:32-42
- You’re On Your Own Kid
- The women with Jesus
- Vigilante Shit
- Ladies always rise above/Ladies know what people want/Someone sweet and kind and fun/The lady simply had enough
- Mastermind
- You see, all the wisеst women/Had to do it this way/‘Cause we were born to be the pawn
- Vigilante Shit
- Jesus arrested in the garden
- Parable of the friend at midnight- Luke 11:5-8
- Healing of the man at the pool
- Dear reader
- Prayers of a cursed man
- Dear reader
- @Paige
- Jesus napped – Prologue – what keeps you up a night Luke 6:12, Matthew 14:23; Mark 6:46–47; John 6:15, Luke 9:18; Luke 11:1
- Vigilante Shit – the disciple who fights back at the arrest Luke 24:49-51; Matthew 26:51-52
- Mastermind John 1:1-14
- Bigger than the whole sky – the women at the cross
- Emmaus – Paris Luke 24:13-35
- Midnights Verses-
- @Megan
- First Listen
- Bejeweled 9:1-4, 6-7
- Baby love, I think I’ve been a little too kind/Didn’t notice you walking/all over my piece of mind
- Puttin’ someone first only works when you’re in their top five
- Snow on the Beach 4:25-29
- My smile is like I won a contest/And to hide that would be so dishonest/And it’s fine to fake it ’til you make it/’Til you do, ’til it’s true
- Bejeweled 9:1-4, 6-7
- Re-listen
- You’re On Your Own Kid 5:54-58
- You’ve got no reason to be afraid/You’re on your own kid/Yeah, you can face this/You’re on your own, kid/You always have been
- You’re Losing Me 24:1, 45-47
- You say, “I don’t understand,” and I say “I know you don’t”
- I wouldn’t marry me either/ A pathological people please/Who only wanted you to see her
- https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions
- Labyrinth 10:22-26
- You would break your back to make me break a smile/You know how much I hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back
- You’re On Your Own Kid 5:54-58
- First Listen
- @Paige
- First Listen
- Anti-Hero 3:16-18
- It’s me/Hi./ I’m the problem, it’s me.
- Snow on the Beach (Clean lyrics)- 4:9-10
- Now it’s like snow at the beach / Weird but it was beautiful
- Anti-Hero 3:16-18
- Re-listen
- Snow on the beach 4:26-29
- And to hide that would be so dishonest / And it’s fine to fake it ’til you make it / ‘Til you do, ’til it’s true
- Bejeweled – 9:28-29
- Did all the extra credit, then got graded on a curve
- Sweet nothing 12:33-34
- To The voices that implore you should be doing more
- Paris 16:11-12
- No, I didn’t see the news | ‘Cause we were somewhere else
- Snow on the beach 4:26-29
- First Listen
- @Megan
- Where is God/faith?
- Bigger Than The Whole Sky
- Is it because I didn’t pray
- Karma
- Karma is a God
- Dear Reader
- Desperate prayers of a cursed man
- Bigger Than The Whole Sky
- What would Jesus’s track 5 story be?
- Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
- You’re On Your Own Kid
- Taylor’s track five meaning: On every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning. The fifth track is always the most emotional, tear-jerking and vulnerable song on the album. It always follows a sad, heart-wrenching story about Taylor’s past, usually about one of her relationships or her emotions and anxieties in life. (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/11/26/track-5-meaning/)
- What’s Next?
- Who knows????
- Recap Episode
- Christmas Episode
- Sunday Question
- Midnights Jesus Story
- Track Five Jesus Story
- Midnights Verse
- What story did we miss?
- Thank you!
- PS
- Prayer @Megan
- God, you meet us at midnight, in the morning, in the afternoon. You always make sure that we are not alone, although it can feel like we are on our own. But you are there with us through the lavender haze and the maroons and the midnight rains of our life. And you love us in spite of all the flaws we think we have. For you are the One that will never see us as less than, for we are wonderfully made in your image, for we are you beloved children. In your son’s most holy and precious name we pray. Amen.
- Benediction @Paige
- Prayer @Megan