Taylor Swift not only won Video of the Year for her short “All Too Well” at the VMAs on Sunday night, she announced that her new album will be released in October.
“Midnights” will be released on October 21. The new album will contain thirteen tracks following “thirteen sleepless nights scattered across [Swift’s] life.”
“This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams,” Swift wrote in a statement accompanying the album announcement. “The floors we walk and the demons we face. For all of us who have turned around and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go in search – hoping that maybe when the clock strikes noon…we will meet again.
Swift is the first artist to direct her own music video and win a VMA for it. She acknowledged that the women made history in the Video of the Year category this year.
“I’m so encouraged that for the first time in VMAs history, four of the directors nominated in the Video of the Year category are women,” she said in her acceptance speech.
Other nominees in the Video of the Year category included Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Doja Cat, Drake feat. Young Thug, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Olivia Rodrigo.
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“I couldn’t re-record my albums if it wasn’t for you,” Swift continued, thanking her fans. “You encouraged me to do it. And I had decided that if you were to be so generous and give us this [award]I thought it would be a fun time to tell you that my brand new album is out October 21st. And I’ll tell you more at midnight.
Swift also won Best Long Form Video and Best Direction for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)”. Earlier, she thanked ‘Stranger Things’ star Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien for appearing in the 10-minute clip.
“Before that, I had written and directed my own music videos, but I had never done a short film before,” she said in her first acceptance speech of the evening.
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“I want to start by saying thank you to Sadie Sink, Dylan O’Brien, my amazing cinematographer Rina Yang, my producer Saul Germaine and the rest of our amazing team for trusting me, for letting me shine. , their talent, their time,” the singer continued.
The short stars Dylan O’Brien, Sadie Sink, and Swift herself. Sink and O’Brien play a young couple going through the ups and downs of a relationship that doesn’t work. O’Brien attended the VMAs with Swift and took the stage with her when she accepted the award for Best Long Form Video. Sink was not present, but Swift called out to him.
“We put our hearts into this attempt to do something that might be worthy of the love you, the fans, have shown this song,” she added. “Thank you for this beautiful indication that we have done something right.”
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