Taylor Swift Proclaims Midnights Album

We have to settle down — however we simply cannot! Just below an hour after profitable video of the yr on the 2022 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift made followers’ goals come true and confirmed additional particulars of her upcoming new album. She’d already teased the album’s existence throughout her second VMAs acceptance speech (Swift additionally gained finest long-form video earlier within the night on Sunday), and advised the group in Newark, New Jersey, that it could be launched on October 21.

In an Instagram submit at midnight on Aug. 29, Swift unveiled the album’s title is “Midnights,” alongside the quilt art work: a photograph of the singer with heavy blue eye make-up and holding a lighter. “Midnights, the tales of 13 sleepless nights scattered all through my life, shall be out October 21. Meet me at midnight,” she wrote within the caption.

A second slide options a picture of Swift along with her head in her hand, and contains the textual content: “We lie awake in love and in concern, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at partitions and drink till they converse again. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t — proper on this minute — about to make some fateful life-altering mistake.” Continues the notice, “This can be a assortment of music written in the course of the evening, a journey by terrors and candy goals. The flooring we tempo and the demons we face. For all of us who’ve tossed and turned and determined to maintain the lanterns lit and search around — hoping that simply possibly, when the clock strikes twelve . . . we’ll meet ourselves.”

The album being new and never one in every of her long-awaited re-recordings, like “1989 (Taylor’s Model),” was one other huge shock from the singer. The album shall be Swift’s first utterly new album since she launched “Evermore” in December 2020. Her different newest choices had been re-recordings: In 2021, she launched “Fearless (Taylor’s Model)” and “Pink (Taylor’s Model),” the primary two of six anticipated re-recorded albums. Swift additionally dropped new single “Carolina” from the film “The place the Crawdads Sing” in 2022.