Taylor Swift earns high praise for her new album Midnights by critics and fans

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Taylor Swift is already receiving high praise from fans and critics, alike, just hours after releasing her highly-anticipated album Midnights early Friday morning.Variety's Chris Williams deemed Midnights something 'worth losing sleep over' as it's a triumphant return to the 32-year-old singer's pop era 'steeped in synthesizers and programmed beats.'Deemed an evening of 'celebration,' fans of Swift flooded social media with their first impressions as they eagerly worked their way through the album's 13 infectious tracks.

Impressed: Taylor Swift is already receiving high praise from fans and critics, alike, just hours after releasing her highly-anticipated album Midnights early Friday morning'Midnights' is more romantic than not, as an album, even withstanding plenty of detours into a witty churlishness or affecting lonesomeness along the way,' pens Williams in a review published Friday.'It's got to be a sign of something that 'Midnights' is the first of her 10 albums to both begin.' Williams further praises Swift for being able to sustain 'intimacy over a whole album' instead of going down the past most traveled by: 'Chasing hit singles.' Billboard's Jason Lipshutz calls Midnights a 'focused, legacy-extending new project' for Swift, who has been an unstoppable force since bursting onto the music scene in 2006.It was compared to the stylings of Swift's 2017 album Reputation and 2019's Lover, since Midnights is 'more sonically amorphous than the mainstream pop of 1989 or the indie-folk of Folklore and Evermore.' 'Worth losing sleep over': Variety 's Chris Williams deemed Midnights something 'worth losing sleep over' as it's a triumphant return to the 32-year-old singer's pop era 'steeped in synthesizers and programmed.