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Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Album Is Shockingly Dull
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/HandoutBelieve it or not, Taylor Swift is our most grandiose pop star. That may seem like a stretch in a world where we have Gagas, Beyoncés, and Madonnas, but it’s true. Taylor Swift is a maximalist at heart—she goes for broke every single time and milks everything for all it’s worth. Even the stripped-down, singer/songwriter folk of her pair of pandemic albums, folklore and evermore, was massive in scale; Taylor Swift, the most pop