Esquire Editor-in Chief Alex Bilmes (and his 13-year-old daughter) review the most anticipated album of the year
21 Oct 2022Surely no one needs another article beating up on the poor old trendy dads — certainly not me, and I imagine that goes for plenty of Esquire readers, too. But it’s impossible to deny that there was something a little dispiriting about the patronising response among my kind to Taylor Swift’s brace of excellent 2020 lockdown albums, Folklore and Evermore.
But true Taylor fans know that, while Folklore and Evermore contained wonderful examples of Swift’s craft as a songwriter and lyricist, the masterpiece in her oeuvre remains 1989, released in 2014, when she was just 24 years old. That album, her generation’s Thriller, or Like a Prayer, is now established as a pop classic. .
Great pop music is for anyone with ears to listen to it, but it’s when you are a very young that the stuff that is in the charts right now is most meaningful and exciting. My daughter, who recently turned 13, has been a Swifty for as long as she can remember. Her first ever concert was Taylor Swift at Wembley on the Reputation Tour, in the summer of 2018. I was there, too. It was epic. So, much excitement in my house about the release of Midnights, Swift’s tenth original studio album.
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