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Swifties, assemble! During her acceptance speech for Video of the yr on the MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift introduced she’d be dropping a brand new album on October 21. However, followers solely needed to wait a brief hour extra to be delighted by the fun of the primary have a look at the album cowl for her tenth studio album and the identify of her subsequent masterpiece, Midnights. The launch of this album would mark her return to unique music in two years.
“We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears,” Taylor wrote in her put up asserting the album. “We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t – right this minute – about to make some fateful life-altering mistake. This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. The floor that we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes 12… we’ll meet ourselves. Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.”
Since 2020, Taylor has centered on the “Taylor’s Version” sequence of re-recordings of her Big Machine catalog. However, Taylor’s final releases of contemporary materials — the folklore and evermore albums — had been additionally shock releases and debuted inside 5 months of one another. Clearly, Taylor has determined to make this a pattern… and we’re not complaining!
The evening belong to Taylor, who gained large for the brief movie for All Too Well (Taylor’s Version). Between gliding down the purple carpet like a rattling disco ball and dancing to Lizzo and Nicki Minaj, Taylor picked up two large awards of the evening: Best Long Form Video and the aforementioned Video of the Year, which makes her the one artist in historical past to win the award 3 instances. At her facet had been her producer, cinematographer, and one of many stars of the video, Dylan O’Brien.
“You guys, I’m just so proud of what we made,” she mentioned throughout her acceptance speech for Video of the Year. “And I now that every second of this moment that we wouldn’t have been able to make this short film if it weren’t for you, the fans.” She then added, “I had sort of made up my mind that if you were going to be this generous and give us this, I thought it might be a fun moment to tell you that my brand-new album comes out October 21st. And I will tell you more at midnight.”
This new album will probably be her twelfth file, with 9 unique studio albums and a pair of Taylor’s Version re-recorded albums continuing it. Her final two album, folklore and evermore had been each nominated for Album of the Year on the Grammys. Taylor gained for folklore in 2021. She will probably be eligible to be nominated for Red (Taylor’s Version) for the 2023. Her final launch was a single for the soundtrack of the film Where The Crawdads Sing known as “Carolina”.
Clearly, there isn’t a slowing down Taylor anytime quickly! You know, as we perceive it, All Too Well: The Short Film is Oscar-eligible. Is it time for for her to overcome the film world too?! Guess we’ll see!
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