Taylor Swift: Midnights Track List

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

At midnight on Sept. 21 — one month earlier than the album’s Oct. 21 launch — Taylor Swift launched the primary monitor identify from “Midnights” through TikTok after the social platform teased the large announcement earlier within the day, thus starting a brand new enjoyable social media recreation present. In the preliminary video — accompanied by elevator-like music — Swift informed followers: “It’s me. Hi, I know that I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when giving you information about new music, and I am not here to deny that, but I’m here to defy that. Welcome to a new series I’m calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I’m going to be using this technologically-advanced device to help me allow fate to decide exactly what track titles I’m going to be announcing and in what order.”

The machine in query? A spinning drum, from which she plucked out one in all 13 balls. The first? “Track 13, because of course. Track 13 is called ‘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 “special guest”: Swift’s cat Meredith. The monitor she revealed is monitor eight, which she mentioned is named “Vigilante Sh*t.”

For the third installment, Meredith was absent however Swift carried on. The monitor reveal? No. 7, which is named “Question… ?” The subsequent monitor up in video 4 was the sixth itemizing, referred to as “Midnight Rain.” Fans later came upon the identify of monitor two: “Maroon.”

And on Oct. 3, Swift revealed that monitor three is named “Antihero.” She accompanied the same old TikTok reveal with a lengthier video on Instagram, explaining extra about “Antihero” and its that means. Said Swift, “Track three, ‘Antihero,’ is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written. I really don’t think I’ve delved this far into my insecurities in this detail before.”

“You, know, I struggle a lot with the idea that my life has become unmanageably sized and that, you know — not to sound too dark — I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person,” admitted the singer-songwriter. “Like don’t feel bad for me, you don’t need to. This song really is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself – we all hate things about ourselves and it’s all of those aspects of the things we like and dislike about ourselves that we have to come to terms with if we’re gonna be this person. I like ‘Antihero’ a lot because I think it’s really honest.”

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

Swift introduced “Midnights” in the course of 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 duvet 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 fear, in turmoil and in tears. 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 floors 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 twelve . . . we’ll meet ourselves.”

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

Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” Tracklist

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