Taylor Swift: Midnights Observe Record

Stay calm: Blondie’s album “Midnights” is coming quickly — and as she continues to tease observe titles, she’s additionally now sharing some large revelations.

At midnight on Sept. 21 — one month earlier than the album’s Oct. 21 launch — Taylor Swift launched the primary observe identify from “Midnights” by way of TikTok after the social platform teased the large announcement earlier within the day, thus starting a brand new enjoyable social media sport present. Within the preliminary video — accompanied by elevator-like music — Swift informed followers: “It is me. Hello, I do know that I’ve a behavior of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when providing you with details about new music, and I’m not right here to disclaim that, however I am right here to defy that. Welcome to a brand new sequence I am calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I’ll be utilizing this technologically-advanced system to assist me enable destiny to resolve precisely what observe titles I’ll be saying and in what order.”

The system in query? A spinning drum, from which she plucked out certainly one of 13 balls. The primary? “Observe 13, due to course. Observe 13 known as ‘Mastermind.'”

She adopted up the primary “Midnights Mayhem” with a second TikTok clip on Sept. 23. The “second episode” featured, once more, the spinning ball drum and a “particular visitor”: Swift’s cat Meredith. The observe she revealed is observe eight, which she stated known as “Vigilante Sh*t.”

For the third installment, Meredith was absent however Swift carried on. The observe reveal? No. 7, which known as “Query… ?” The subsequent observe up in video 4 was the sixth itemizing, known as “Midnight Rain.” Followers later came upon the identify of observe two: “Maroon.”

And on Oct. 3, Swift revealed that observe three known as “Antihero.” She accompanied the same old TikTok reveal with a lengthier video on Instagram, explaining extra about “Antihero” and its that means. Mentioned Swift, “Observe three, ‘Antihero,’ is certainly one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written. I actually do not suppose I’ve delved this far into my insecurities on this element earlier than.”

“You, know, I battle so much with the concept my life has develop into unmanageably sized and that, you realize — to not sound too darkish — I simply battle with the thought of not feeling like an individual,” admitted the singer-songwriter. “Like do not feel unhealthy for me, you need not. This music actually is an actual guided tour all through all of the issues I are likely to hate about myself – all of us hate issues about ourselves and it is all of these elements of the issues we like and dislike about ourselves that we have now to return to phrases with if we’re gonna be this particular person. I like ‘Antihero’ so much as a result of I believe it is actually trustworthy.”

It was again to the common “Mayhem” programming on Oct. 5, with Swift revealing that observe No. 9 known as “Bejeweled.” The subsequent day, Swift confirmed observe 11 is known as “Karma.” (Is she lastly confirming the fan concept a few long-lost Swift album known as “Karma”?!)

Swift introduced “Midnights” through the 2022 VMAs in August, sharing full particulars in an Instagram publish at midnight on Aug. 29. Alongside the album-title information, she revealed the quilt artwork: a photograph of the singer with heavy blue eye make-up and holding a lighter. She additionally included a second picture with the next textual content: “We lie awake in love and in worry, 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. It is a assortment of music written in the course of the night time, 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.”

“Midnights,” which reteams Swift with a frequent collaborator, producer Jack Antonoff, is already accessible to preorder and presave.

Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” Tracklist

• Observe One
• Observe Two: “Maroon”
• Observe Three: “Antihero”
• Observe 4
• Observe 5
• Observe Six: “Midnight Rain”
• Observe Seven: “Query… ?”
• Observe Eight: “Vigilante Sh*t”
• Observe 9: “Bejeweled”
• Observe 10
• Observe 11: “Karma”
• Observe 12
• Observe 13: “Mastermind”