We Now Know Four Tracks from Taylor Swift's Upcoming Album "Midnights"

Remain calm, Swifties: the walk-up to Blondie’s upcoming album “Midnights” continues to ramp up. At midnight on Sept. 21 — one month earlier than the album’s Oct. 21 launch — Taylor Swift launched the primary monitor title from “Midnights” through TikTok after the social platform teased the massive announcement earlier within the day, thus starting a brand new enjoyable social media sport present.

In the preliminary video — accompanied by elevator-like music — Swift instructed followers: “It’s me. Hi, 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’m right here to defy that. Welcome to a brand new collection I’m calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I’m going to be utilizing this technologically-advanced gadget to assist me enable destiny to resolve precisely what monitor titles I’m going to be saying and in what order.”

The gadget in query? A spinning drum, from which she plucked out one in every of 13 balls. The first? “Track 13, due to course. Track 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 monitor she revealed is monitor eight, which she mentioned known as “Vigilante Sh*t.”

For the third installment, Meredith was absent however Swift carried on. The monitor reveal? No. 7, which known as “Question… ?”

The subsequent monitor up in video 4 was the sixth itemizing, referred to as “Midnight Rain.”

Swift introduced “Midnights” in the course of the 2022 VMAs in August, sharing full particulars in an Instagram post 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 concern, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at partitions and drink till they converse 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 set of music written in the midst of the night time, a journey by means of 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 out there to preorder and presave.

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Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” Tracklist

• Track One
• Track Two
• Track Three
• Track Four
• Track Five
• Track Six: “Midnight Rain”
• Track Seven: “Question… ?”
• Track Eight: “Vigilante Sh*t”
• Track Nine
• Track 10
• Track 11
• Track 12
• Track 13: “Mastermind”