It's Midnight Cinderella

"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.

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]

Chart performance

"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

↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Fresh Horses review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
↑ Nash, Alanna (1995-12-08). "Horses Around: Garth Brooks takes us on an amusing but bumpy ride.". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
↑ Stambler, Irwin; Lyndon Stambler; Grelun Landon (2000). Country Music: The Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 51. ISBN 0-312-26487-9.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 9679." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. September 9, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
↑ "Garth Brooks – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Garth Brooks.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1996". RPM. December 16, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.

Garth Brooks singles

Garth Brooks	"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" "If Tomorrow Never Comes" "Not Counting You" "The Dance"

No Fences	"Friends in Low Places" "Unanswered Prayers" "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" "The Thunder Rolls" "Wild Horses" (released in 2001)

Ropin' the Wind	"Rodeo" "Shameless" "What She's Doing Now" "Papa Loved Mama" "The River"

The Chase	"We Shall Be Free" "Somewhere Other Than the Night" "Learning to Live Again" "That Summer"

In Pieces	"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" "Standing Outside the Fire" "One Night a Day" "Callin' Baton Rouge" "The Red Strokes"

Fresh Horses	"She's Every Woman" "The Fever" "The Beaches of Cheyenne" "The Change" "It's Midnight Cinderella" "That Ol' Wind"

Sevens	"Longneck Bottle" "She's Gonna Make It" "Two Piña Coladas" "You Move Me" "Do What You Gotta Do" (released in 2000)

The Limited Series	"To Make You Feel My Love"

Double Live	"It's Your Song"

Greatest Hits (as Chris Gaines)	"Lost in You" "It Don't Matter to the Sun" "That's the Way I Remember It"

Scarecrow	"When You Come Back to Me Again" (released in 2000) "Wrapped Up in You" "Squeeze Me In" (with Trisha Yearwood) "Thicker Than Blood" "Why Ain't I Running"

The Lost Sessions	"Good Ride Cowboy" "Love Will Always Win" (with Trisha Yearwood) "That Girl Is a Cowboy"

The Ultimate Hits	"More Than a Memory" "Workin' for a Livin'" (with Huey Lewis) "Midnight Sun"

Man Against Machine	"People Loving People" "Mom"

Guest singles	"Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy (with Chris LeDoux; uncredited) "In Another's Eyes" (with Trisha Yearwood) "One Heart at a TIme" (charity single) "Burnin the Roadhouse Down" (with Steve Wariner) "Where Your Road Leads" (with Trisha Yearwood) "Katie Wants a Fast One" (with Steve Wariner) "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" (with George Jones)

Other songs	"Hard Luck Woman" "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" "The Call" (with Trisha Yearwood)

Cinderella

Characters	Buttons Cinderella Ugly sisters Fairy godmother Wicked stepmother Prince Charming

Films	Cinderella (1899) Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912) Cinderella (1914) Ella Cinders (1926) The Cookie Carnival (1935) The Magic Shoes (1935) First Love (1939) Cinderella (1947) Sepia Cinderella (1947) Cinderella (1950) The Glass Slipper (1955) Cinderfella (1960) Stop! Look! and Laugh (1960) More Than a Miracle (1967) Tři oříšky pro Popelku (1973) The Slipper and the Rose (1976) Cinderella (1979) Maid to Order (1987) Cinderella (1994) Ever After (1998) A Cinderella Story (2004) Ella Enchanted (2004) Cinderella (2006) Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010) Cinderella (2015)

Animation	Cinderella Blues (1931) Poor Cinderella (1934) Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) Cinderella (1950) Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964) Cinderella (1979) The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981) The Magic Riddle (1991) Happily N'Ever After (2007) Year of the Fish (2008)

Sequels	Princess Cinderella (1941) Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007) Another Cinderella Story (2008) A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011)

Television	Hey, Cinderella! (1968) Cindy (1978) Cinderella Monogatari (1996) Cinderella (1997) CinderElmo (1999) Cinderella (2000) La Cenicienta (2003 Spanish) Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (2004 Indonesia-Malaysia-Hawaiian) Floricienta (2004) Floribella (2005 Brazil) Floribella (2006 Portugal) Grazilda (2010 Filipino-Tagalog-English) Rags (2012) Aik Nayee Cinderella (2012 Pakistani)

Literary adaptations	Ash (2009) Bella at Midnight (2006) Celestina (1791) Chinese Cinderella (1999 English-Chinese-Bangla) Cinder (2012) Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954) The Coachman Rat (1989) Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999) Ella Enchanted (1997) The Fairy Godmother (2004) I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999) Just Ella (1999) Nine Coaches Waiting (1958) Phoenix and Ashes (2004) Princess of Glass (2010) Witches Abroad (1991)

Opera	Cendrillon (1810 Isouard) La Cenerentola (1817 Rossini) Cendrillon (1899 Massenet) Cendrillon (1904 Viardot) La Cenicienta (1966 Hen)

Ballet	Cinderella (1893 Fitinhof-Schell) Aschenbrödel (1900 Strauss-Bayer) Cinderella (1945 Prokofiev) Cinderella (1948 Ashton)

Musicals	Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire (1904) Stubborn Cinderella (1909) Mr. Cinders (1929) Cinderella (1957) Cindy (1964) The Penny Friend (1966) The Slipper and the Rose (1984) Soho Cinders (2008) Cinderella (2013)

Plays	A Kiss for Cinderella (1916) Hobson's Choice (1916)

Comics	Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love Cinderalla

Songs	"Spread a Little Happiness" (1929) "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (1948) "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (1950) "Cinderella" (1987) "Hey Cinderella" (1993) "It's Midnight Cinderella" (1996) "Cinderella" (2001) "Cinderella" (2002) "Cinderella" (2003) "Stealing Cinderella" (2007) "Cinderella" (2007) "C\C (Cinderella\Complex)" (2008)

Albums	A Cinderella Story (2004 soundtrack) Disney's Princess Favorites (2002)

Sociology	Cinderella complex Cinderella effect The Cinderella Movement

Commercials	A Coach for Cinderella A Ride for Cinderella

Adult	Cinder Ellen up too Late Cinderella (1977) Naughty Cinderella

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) Kongji and Patzzi (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)

Games	Cinders

Related	Catskin Into the Woods Into the Woods (2014 film) A Kiss for Cinderella (1925 film) Politically Correct Bedtime Stories Disney's characters Stop! Look! and Laugh Waltz Suite Black Cinderella Two Goes East Cinderella's Sister Cinderella (sports) Lying to Be Perfect Cinderella's Eyes (2011)

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