Mastermind - Taylor Swift - MP3 instrumental karaoke

On the gentle bass-boosted "Mastermind," Taylor Swift melds the personal with the political to close out the standard version of her Midnights album. The satirical track begins like a fairytale ("Once upon a time, the planets and the fates / And all the stars aligned") and sees her poke fun at her public image and her "calculating approach to pop stardom seeped into her love life" while also making reference to her own "cryptic and Machiavellian" habit of leaving Easter eggs. "Mastermind" embodies the gossamer synth-pop sound that bejewels the album. In 2022, she waved off the acoustic instrumentation and the cottagecore of her 2020 records Evermore and Folklore and ushered in an arsenal of synths and digital effects for her 10th LP Midnights. The album was a commercial triumph, yielding 10 top ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100—the most for any album—in the same week while also breaking streaming records.