Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’: Release Date, Track Names & Everything Else We Know

Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance astatine the MTV Video Music Awards connected August 29, and she shocked fans with her large announcement astatine the show. While accepting the award for Video of the Year for her “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” Short Film, Taylor revealed that she had a new medium coming out. She besides said that she’d beryllium giving much details astatine midnight, which was little than 1 hr distant astatine the time.

True to her promise, Taylor announced the upcoming merchandise of her 10th workplace album, Midnights, astatine 12:00 connected the dot. Although Taylor dropped immoderate never-before-heard songs with the re-releases of Fearless and Red successful 2021, this is her archetypal full, caller medium since Evermore successful 2020. Learn much astir the grounds below!

When Does Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Come Out?

Taylor Swift astatine the 2022 VMAs. (Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

While making her medium announcement astatine the VMAs, Taylor besides revealed that Midnights volition beryllium released connected Oct. 21, 2022. She shared the album’s cover, arsenic well, which features a close-up of her face. She’s wearing glittery bluish oculus shadiness and holding up a lit lighter. The screen besides confirmed that determination volition beryllium 13 tracks connected the album.

In summation to the existent record, Target volition beryllium releasing a Deluxe mentation of Midnights. The Deluxe record, which is called the “Lavender Version,” includes 2 remixes and 1 further bonus track. Taylor besides kicked disconnected September by announcing that determination are Special Edition covers disposable for Midnights. They were connected merchantability for 1 week aft the announcement.

Of course, Taylor ne'er goes tiny and ever has thing hidden successful her work. On Sept. 16, she revealed that if the Midnights medium and 3 Special Editions are placed adjacent to each different successful a square, the numbers connected their backmost covers signifier a clock. It’s each successful the details!

What Songs Are On ‘Midnights’?

On Sept. 20, TikTok urged fans to cheque retired Taylor’s leafage connected the app astatine midnight. That evening, she released her caller conception “Midnights Mayhem With Me,” which featured her revealing way names from the Midnights album. Following the archetypal segment, Taylor continued “Midnights Mayhem With Me” each Monday, Wednesday and Friday astatine midnight, revealing 1 way astatine a time. She utilized a random lottery shot spinner to determine which way would beryllium shared each day.

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♬ Midnights Mayhem occurrence 1 – Taylor Swift

The archetypal way Taylor shared was way 13, which is called “Mastermind.” She followed it up with Track 8, which is called “Vigilante S***.” On Sept. 26, she revealed Track 7, “Question…?” and connected Sept. 28, she shared that Track 6 is called “Midnight Rain.” Friday, Sept. 30 brought the uncover of Track 2, which is “Maroon.”

What Will ‘Midnight’s Sound Like?

Taylor took a measurement successful a antithetic absorption with her past 2 caller albums, Folklore and Evermore, successful 2020. The records had much of an indie/alternative sound, which strayed from her erstwhile popular and state roots. Well, it looks similar we’re backmost to the POP genre on Midnights. The medium is listed arsenic a ‘pop’ record.

Taylor besides shared immoderate behind-the-scenes clips from the making of Midnights connected societal media. In the footage, Jack Antonoff appears alongside her successful the studio. Jack and Taylor collaborated heavy on 1989, which was her archetypal afloat foray into popular music. He’s besides been the shaper connected galore of her astir fan-loved popular songs. Some of the songs Jack and Taylor person worked connected unneurotic see “Cruel Summer,” “Call It What You Want,” “Getaway Car” and “Out Of The Woods,” truthful fans are expecting that vibe connected this record.

Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff astatine the Grammys. (Shutterstock)

Meanwhile, Taylor besides gave immoderate penetration into the inspiration behind Midnights erstwhile she announced the medium successful August. “We prevarication awake successful emotion and successful fear, successful turmoil and successful tears,” she wrote. “We look astatine walls and portion until they talk back. We twist successful our self-made cages and commune that we aren’t — close this infinitesimal — astir to marque immoderate fateful life-altering mistake.”

The connection continued, “This is simply a postulation of euphony written successful the mediate of the night, a travel done terrors and saccharine dreams. The floors we gait and the demons we face. For each of america who person tossed and turned and decided to support the lanterns lit and spell searching — hoping that conscionable possibly erstwhile the timepiece strikes twelve…we’ll conscionable ourselves. Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered passim my beingness fie, volition beryllium retired October 21. Meet maine astatine midnight.”

Based on Taylor’s message, it appears that Midnights volition archer assorted stories passim her life, and not conscionable from her past medium to now. However, she has not revealed the circumstantial inspiration down immoderate of the tracks conscionable yet.

What Is Happening With Taylor Swift’s Re-Recordings?

Since Taylor was successful the midst of re-releasing immoderate of her records erstwhile she announced Midnights, galore are wondering what the timeline is for the remainder of those re-records. So far, Taylor dropped 2 re-recorded albums, Fearless and Red, which means she has 4 much to go: Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 1989 and Reputation.

Taylor Swift astatine TIFF. (Shutterstock)

Taylor has already released the afloat re-recorded versions of “This Love” and “Wildest Dreams” from 1989, arsenic good arsenic a clip from the caller mentation of “Bad Blood.” This led fans to judge that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) would beryllium her adjacent record. However, without immoderate warning, Taylor dropped the Midnights weaponry connected america instead!

The information of the substance is that, similar galore things with Taylor…we simply don’t know! We tin expect her to give Midnights immoderate clip to marinate earlier the adjacent re-recording is released, but a timeline has not been shared conscionable yet.

Taylor is re-recording her archetypal six records truthful she tin gain the Master’s to the music. She tried to bargain the Master’s from her aged grounds label, Big Machine, but was denied the close to bash truthful by statement head Scott Borchetta, who discovered Taylor arsenic a teenager. Rather than conscionable letting Taylor bargain the Master’s flat-out, Scott wanted her to grounds six caller albums for Big Machine successful bid to gain backmost the rights to each of the albums. Taylor did not privation to instrumentality that deal, truthful she near Big Machine successful 2018, and successful 2020, she began the process of re-recording.