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We must relax — however we simply cannot! After two months of anticipation, many Easter eggs, and never a single trace of what the songs would sound like, Taylor Swift‘s “Midnights” is lastly right here. And it comes with just a few surprises! Swift introduced on Oct. 20 that “Midnights” will likely be a visible album and that she directed music movies for the tracks. A couple of hours after the album was launched, she shared the primary video, for “Anti-Hero.” Swift additionally introduced seven extra tracks on the prolonged version of the album, formally titled “Midnights (3am Edition).”
Swift first introduced particulars concerning the album, her tenth, slightly below an hour after successful video of the yr on the 2022 MTV VMAs and teasing that she was about to announce new music. In an Instagram publish at midnight on Aug. 29, Swift unveiled the album’s title, “Midnights,” alongside the quilt art work: a photograph of the singer with heavy blue eye make-up and holding a lighter. “‘Midnights,’ the tales of 13 sleepless nights scattered all through my life, will likely be out October 21. Meet me at midnight,” she wrote within the caption.
A second slide featured a picture of Swift along with her head in her hand and contains the textual content: “We lie awake in love and in concern, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at partitions and drink till they communicate again. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t — proper this minute — about to make some fateful life-altering mistake. This is a group of music written in the midst of the evening, a journey via terrors and candy desires. The flooring we tempo and the demons we face. For all of us who’ve tossed and turned and determined to maintain the lanterns lit and search around — hoping that simply possibly, when the clock strikes twelve . . . we’ll meet ourselves.”
On Sept. 16, Swift confirmed that she’s, as soon as once more, teamed up with producer Jack Antonoff for the album. “The making of Midnights 🌌,” she captioned a behind-the-scenes video on Instagram.
The album being new and never one in all her long-awaited re-recordings, like “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” was one other massive shock from the singer. The album will likely be Swift’s first fully new album since she launched “Evermore” in December 2020. Her different newest choices have been re-recordings: in 2021, she launched “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version),” the primary two of six anticipated rerecorded albums. Swift additionally dropped new single “Carolina” from the film “Where the Crawdads Sing” earlier this yr.
Ahead, hear to each music from Swift’s “Midnights,” together with the seven 3 a.m. tracks.