Taylor Swift is aware of she has a, effectively, status for dropping bread crumbs throughout her social media and music for eagle-eyed followers to decode and decipher. However that’s not what she’s as much as this time round.
She’s prepared to provide her followers some easy data, posting a TikTok very first thing Wednesday (Sept. 21) — on the stroke of midnight, naturally — with a really cable-access vibe and the title “Midnights Mayhem With Me.” The celebrity singer/songwriter, carrying a mustard blazer and sitting in entrance of a brown crushed-velvet backdrop, had a gold lottery-ball cage subsequent to her with ping-pong balls labeled 1 to 13, representing every monitor on her Midnights album, due Oct. 21.
“I do know I’ve a behavior of dropping cryptic clues and easter eggs when supplying you with details about new music, and I’m not right here to disclaim that, however I’m right here to defy that,” she says to intro the clip. “Welcome to a brand new collection I’m calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I’m going to be utilizing this technologically superior gadget to assist me permit destiny to determine precisely what monitor titles I’m going to be saying and in what order.”
She proceeds to attract the primary ball from the cage, and what are you aware? It’s Observe 13, representing Swift’s very well-known fortunate quantity. “The primary monitor I’m going to let you know about is Observe 13, due to course,” she says with a smirk, earlier than choosing up a purple telephone and revealing into the receiver: “Observe 13 is known as ‘Mastermind.’”
So perhaps she isn’t beating across the bush this time round, however she isn’t precisely spilling her guts both, as that’s the one intel followers will get… for now.
“Midnights tracklist reveal!!” the TikTok video is captioned. “Introducing: Midnights Mayhem with Me.”
It stays to be seen how typically she’ll roll out episodes of this collection, however it looks like we are able to depend on a showtime of midnight when she does.
Earlier than the song-title reveal, Swift was honored at NSAI’s Nashville Songwriter Awards on Tuesday night time because the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade. She gave a speech and delighted the group with a shock efficiency of her 10-minute “All Too Nicely (Taylor’s Model).” Billboard was on the scene, so keep tuned for our reporting from Nashville.
Watch the inaugural episode of Midnights Mayhem With Me right here.
