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Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Is Not Immune From the Adage “Haters Gonna Hate”
And before the album even comes out too!
On October 19th — hours running thin before the release of Taylor Swift’s tenth album Midnights — I logged onto Twitter and frowned at my timeline. A quick scan through some tweets led me to the realization that someone was supposedly leaking snippets of Midnights’ carefully guarded tracks.
At first, I didn’t think anything of it. On the internet, people can cry, “LEAKS!” when, really, the content shared is easily traced back to being doctored material. It’s pretty common when you’re dealing with pop culture, particularly of the especially lucrative kind revolving around Ms. Swift herself.
A few hours later, though, the purported leaks were scrubbed clean off of Twitter. The puzzle pieces began to form together in a way that led me to go, “Huh. There must have been something to those tweets after all.”
But the tweets from disappointed fans, eager to keep their ears pure of leaks before Midnights’ release day, were drowned out by a vitriol only the internet can allow to breed in a vacuum.
Tweets abounded with similar veins of thought:
“These lyrics are like a schoolgirl’s diary. Why can’t Taylor Swift grow up?”
