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Taylor Swift's "Midnights" Album Announcement Parodies

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Taylor Swift Midnight Album Announcement Parodies refers to an exploitable image macro template inspired by an Instagram post by pop star Taylor Swift in which she announced her October 2022 album Midnight. The post features an angsty-looking picture of Swift and a paragraph in which she dramatically details late-night moments that inspired the album. Parodies of the post soon followed, with people recaptioning the text with other famous copypastas.

Origin

On August 28th, 2022, Taylor Swift announced an upcoming album called Midnights at the Video Music Awards.[1] That evening on her Instagram and Twitter, [2] she shared a graphic explaining the meaning behind the album, using poetic language to describe the feeling of being emotionally lost late at night (shown below).


We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren't - right this minute - about to make some fateful life-altering mistake. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. 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. Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.

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Jokes about the announcement quickly began spreading on social media shortly after. For example, early in the morning on August 29th, 2022, Twitter user @broiledcrawfish[3] stated the announcement looked like a "Lexapro ad," gaining over 1,700 retweets and 38,000 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @enchanticity[4] joked it sounded like a parody written by a Swift stan (shown below, right).


Crawford M Horton @broiledcrawfish why does this look like a Lexapro ad We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren't - right this minute - about to make some fateful life-altering mistake. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. 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. Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight. ... More Shaan @enchanticity sorry but this announcement paragraph reads like some Swiftie account jokingly wrote it #ifinallymoved #midnight #TaylorSwift Ts We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren't - right this minute - about to make some fateful life-altering mistake. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. 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. Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.

As memes using the post continued to spread, others began turning the image into an exploitable, altering the text with famous copypastas. On August 28th, Twitter user @ZachBrecheen[5] posted a parody that used the text from Nicole Kidman's AMC Commercial, gaining over 1,400 retweets and 11,000 likes in one day (shown below, left). Consequence of Sound[6] posted an example on its Twitter using the Corn Kid monologue, gaining over 120 likes in two hours (shown below, right).


We come to this place for magic. We come to AMC theatres to love, to cry, to care. Because we need that, all of us. That indescribable feeling you get when the lights begin to dim. And we go somewhere we've never been before. Not just entertained but somehow reborn, together. Dazzling images on a huge silver screen. Sound that I can feel. Somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Our heroes feel like the best part of us, and stories feel perfect and powerful. Because here ... they are. geting LIFTI For me, I really like corn. What do you like about corn? It's corn. A big lump with knobs. It has the juice. I can't imagine a more beautiful thing. TRITETET It's corn. I can tell you all about it. I mean, look at this thing. But when I tried it with butter, everything changed. Telesis UNTEMEAM MEU COMUNE MELVER

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External References

[1] Yahoo – Taylor Swift Announces New Album During Historic VMAs Speech

[2] Twitter – Taylor Swift

[3] Twitter – broiledcrawfish

[4] Twitter – enchanticity

[5] Twitter – @ZachBrecheen

[6] Twitter – consequence

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