@Taylor Swift Midnights Mayhem episode 2, with special guest Meredith 😺 #TSmidnighTS #SwiftTok #MidnightsMayhemWithMe
♬ Midnights Mayhem episode 2 – Taylor Swift
Keep calm, Swifties: the build-up to Blondie’s upcoming album “Midnights” continues to ramp up. At midnight on September 21 – a month before the album’s October 21 release – Taylor Swift released the first track to “Midnights” via TikTok after the social platform teased the big announcement earlier in the day, kicking off a fun new social media game show.
In the initial video – complete with elevator music – Swift tells fans, “It’s me. Hey, I know I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and easter eggs when I gives information about new music, and I’m not here to deny it, but I’m here to challenge it Welcome to a new series I call “Midnights Mayhem With Me”. state-of-the-art technology to help me allow fate to decide exactly which titles I will announce and in what order.”
The device in question? A spinning drum, from which she snatches one of 13 balls. The first one? “Track 13, of course. Track 13 is called ‘Mastermind’.”
@Taylor Swift Midnights tracklist reveal!! Introducing: Midnights Mayhem with Me 🌌😎 #TSmidnighTS #SwiftTok #MidnightsMayhemWithMe
♬ Midnights Mayhem episode 1 – Taylor Swift
She followed up the initial “Midnights Mayhem” with a second TikTok clip on September 23. The “second episode” featured, once again, the spinning ball drum and a “special guest”: Meredith, Swift’s cat. The track she revealed is track eight, which she says is called “Vigilante Sh*t.”
Swift announced “Midnights” during the 2022 VMAs in August, sharing all the details in an Instagram post at midnight on August 29. Along with the album title news, she revealed the cover art: a photo of the singer with heavy blue eye makeup and holding a lighter. She also included a second image with the following text: “We lie awake in love and in fear, in restlessness and in tears. We look at the walls and drink until they answer. We we writhe in our homemade cages and pray that we’re not – right now – about to make a fatal, life-altering mistake This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams The grounds we tread and the demons we face For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go in search – hoping that maybe be, when the clock strikes noon… we’ll meet again.”
“Midnights,” which pairs Swift with frequent collaborator producer Jack Antonoff, is already available for pre-order and pre-recording.
Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” Tracklist
- Track 1
- Track two
- track three
- Track 4
- Track Five
- Track 6
- track seven
- Eighth track: “Vigilante Sh*t”
- Track nine
- Track 10
- Track 11
- Track 12
- Track 13: “Brain”