music.wikisort.org - Composition"It's Midnight Cinderella" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Garth Brooks. It was released in June 1996 as the fifth single from his album Fresh Horses. The song reached a peak of number 5 on the U.S. country charts in mid-1996. It was written by Brooks, Kent Blazy and Kim Williams.
1996 single by Garth Brooks
"It's Midnight Cinderella" |
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Released | June 10, 1996 |
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Genre | Country |
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Length | 2:23 |
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Label | Capitol Nashville |
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Songwriter(s) | Kent Blazy Kim Williams Garth Brooks |
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Producer(s) | Allen Reynolds |
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Content
"It's Midnight Cinderella" is an up-tempo where the male narrator makes passes on a female via allusions to the Cinderella fairy tale.
In the verses, it is revealed that the female's partner has left her ("I guess your Prince Charming wasn't, after all"). The narrator, in the second verse, then describes his plan to have sex with her ("Gonna learn to love midnight inside this pumpkin shell").
Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic cited the song as a standout track on Fresh Horses, calling the song "sassy" and "suggestive", and saying that it worked because Brooks "lets his guard down" on the song.[1] Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly called it a "bordering-on-risqué fairy tale[…] that adventrously [sic] pushes the envelope of country lyrics."[2]
"It's Midnight Cinderella" made its chart debut on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) in December 1995 after the album's release, as an album cut along with "That Ol' Wind", "Rollin'", and then-current single "The Beaches of Cheyenne".[3] The song charted for several weeks as an album cut before reaching Top 40 on the chart week of July 20, 1996, and peaked at number 5 on the chart week of September 7.
Chart (1996) |
Peak position |
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] |
2 |
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5] |
5 |
Year-end charts
Chart (1996) |
Position |
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[6] |
31 |
References
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Universe |
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Characters |
- Buttons
- Cinderella
- Ugly sisters
- Fairy godmother
- Wicked stepmother
- Prince Charming
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National variation |
- Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian)
- Beauty and Pock Face (Chinese)
- Chūjō-hime (Japanese)
- Fair, Brown and Trembling (Irish)
- Finette Cendron (French)
- The Green Knight (Danish)
- Katie Woodencloak (Norwegian)
- Kongjwi and Patjwi (Korean)
- Ochikubo Monogatari (Japanese)
- "Rhodopis" (Greek)
- Rushen Coatie (Scottish)
- The Sharp Grey Sheep (Scottish)
- The Story of Tam and Cam (Vietnamese)
- Sumiyoshi Monogatari (Japanese)
- The True Bride (German)
- The Wonderful Birch (Russian)
- Ye Xian (Chinese)
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Related | |
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Male versions |
- Askeladden or Boots (Norwegian)
- Fire Boy (Japanese)
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Media |
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Films | A Cinderella Story series | |
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Animation | |
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Sequels | |
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Television | |
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Literary adaptations |
- Celestina (1791)
- Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954)
- Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
- Carrie (1974)
- The Coachman Rat (1989)
- Witches Abroad (1991)
- Ella Enchanted (1997)
- I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999)
- Just Ella (1999)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
- Chinese Cinderella (1999)
- The Fairy Godmother (2004)
- Phoenix and Ashes (2004)
- Bella at Midnight (2006)
- Ash (2009)
- Princess of Glass (2010)
- Cinder (2012)
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Opera |
- Cendrillon (1810 Isouard)
- La Cenerentola (1817 Rossini)
- Cendrillon (1899 Massenet)
- Cendrillon (1904 Viardot)
- La Cenicienta (1966 Hen)
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Ballet |
- Cinderella (1893 Fitinhof-Schell)
- Aschenbrödel (1900 Strauss-Bayer)
- Cinderella (1945 Prokofiev)
- Cinderella (1948 Ashton)
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Musicals |
- Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire (1904)
- A Stubborn Cinderella (1909)
- Mr. Cinders (1929)
- Cinderella (1957)
- Cindy (1964)
- The Penny Friend (1966)
- The Slipper and the Rose (1984)
- Into the Woods (1987)
- Soho Cinders (2008)
- Cinderella (2013)
- Cinderella (2020)
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Other |
- Plays
- A Kiss for Cinderella (1916)
- Comics
- Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love
- Cinderalla
- Ella Cinders (1925–1961)
- Games
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Songs | |
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Albums | |
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Sociology |
- Cinderella complex
- Cinderella effect
- The Cinderella Movement
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Commercials | |
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Adult |
- Cinder Ellen up too Late
- Cinderella (1977)
- Naughty Cinderella
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