At the 2022 VMAs, Taylor Swift announced she’s releasing her 10th studio album in October. Here’s everything to know about ‚Midnights‘ — aka TS10 by most Swifties.
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Swift will release two surprise music videos during Midnights release week.
As if Taylor Swift’s self-directed “All Too Well” short film winning three awards at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards wasn’t exciting enough, the Aug. 28 ceremony ended with a major reason for Swifties to celebrate. While accepting Video of the Year, Swift announced that a new album — aka TS10 — is officially on the way very soon. While the surprise announcement of a new album was the major moment of Swift’s speech, it’s worth noting that her Video of the Year win was quietly historic. Having won for “Bad Blood” in 2015 and “You Need to Calm Down” in 2019, Swift is now the most-awarded artist ever in the category.
The VMAs ended less than an hour before midnight, and Swift told fans to wait until midnight to learn more about what was to come. While some fans started guessing which re-release of her older albums would be released next, Swifties soon discovered that this new release would be an entirely fresh studio album, which will comprise of 13 new tracks, two music videos, and some special surprises along the way.
Here’s what we know about Swift’s upcoming album, so far.
Swift’s promise to reveal details at midnight turned out to be extremely prescient because during the first seconds of Aug. 29, she revealed the name of TS10: Midnights. The project will tell “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life,” as Swift announced in a letter posted to social media. “We lie awake in love and fear, in turmoil and in tears,” she began. “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,” she continued. “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.”
The album art features a closeup of Swift in shimmery blue eyeshadow, holding a lighter. In an accompanying image, she sits at a dimly lit desk with a phone in her hand.
Midnights will come out on Oct. 21, 2022. Coincidentally, the release date of Midnights is the date of Kim Kardashian’s 42nd birthday. The singer is known to do everything with great intention when it comes to releasing music, and fans speculate her longtime feud with the reality star and ex-husband Kanye West could be part of it.
