Bejeweled

Track nine on Midnights, "Bejeweled" is a synth-pop and disco number that Taylor Swift wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff. The album arrived through Republic Records on October 21, 2022, and Swift put the song up for limited-time download on her website four days later, on October 25. Its arrangement is bright and percussive, closer to the dancefloor than anything on Folklore or Evermore, and Swift has framed the song as a metaphor for her return to pop after those two folk-leaning records.

The lyric treats being taken for granted as a problem with a simple remedy: leave, and be seen. Swift works in jewelry-store imagery and a certain amount of cheek, and the result became one of the more quoted cuts on the album. Reviews split along predictable lines. Most writers praised the production and the confidence; a smaller group filed it as filler.

Commercially the song did what a top-10 album track does in the streaming era. It reached number eight on the Billboard Global 200 and charted inside the top 10 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, the Philippines, and the United States. Certifications followed in Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, none of them below platinum. [edit]