Suprise! Taylor Swift Released 7 Bonus Tracks On Midnights
She dropped the new songs at 3 a.m.
The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards ended in the best way. When Taylor Swift accepted her Video of the Year award for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version),” she also announced her 10th studio album would be coming. Although she didn’t say the name of her project at the time, she said more info would be revealed at midnight. Well, it turns out that was an easter egg because, when midnight arrived, Swift announced the album is called Midnights.
“This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams,” Swift said in a statement on her website. “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 singer then began to reveal many exciting details about Midnights, including three special edition covers and a quirky new TikTok series to unveil the album’s tracklist. Check out all the must-know information below.
Midnights Release Date
Swift’s 10th studio album dropped this fall. “Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21,” the singer wrote on Instagram.
Midnights Tracklist
Swift slowly revealed the Midnights tracklist through her new TikTok series, Midnights Mayhem With Me. In this playful series, Swift used a “technologically advanced device,” aka a bingo cage, to share the album’s 13-song tracklist one at a time. (Of course, 13 is Swift’s lucky number.) After picking a number, Swift said the title of her track through an old telephone. Here are all 13 tracks she announced through her series:
- Lavender Haze
- Maroon
- Anti-Hero
- Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)
- You’re On Your Own, Kid
- Midnight Rain
- Question...?
- Vigilante Sh*t
- Bejeweled
- Labyrinth
- Karma
- Sweet Nothing
- Mastermind
After releasing Midnights, Swift announced she had written other songs to find those “magic 13” tracks on her album. “I’m calling them 3am tracks,” she said. “Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.”
She released those tracks through Midnights (3am Edition). Here’s the tracklist:
- Lavender Haze
- Maroon
- Anti-Hero
- Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)
- You’re On Your Own, Kid
- Midnight Rain
- Question...?
- Vigilante Sh*t
- Bejeweled
- Labyrinth
- Karma
- Sweet Nothing
- Mastermind
- The Great War
- Bigger Than The Whole Sky
- Paris
- High Infidelity
- Glitch
- Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve
- Dear Reader
The 3am edition of her album is also available to stream on Spotify:
Midnights Physical Album Details
According to Swift’s website, her physical Midnights CD comes in four different versions: Midnights: Jade Green Edition CD, Midnights: Moonstone Blue Edition CD, Midnights: Mahogany Edition CD, and Midnights: Blood Moon Edition CD. Each one comes with unique artwork that shows Swift in a different position, including gracefully posing in front of her piano, holding a lighter, leaning against a wood-paneled wall, and making a call on a telephone.
As you can tell by the title of each CD, each version has its own unique colored disc. On top of that, each CD will come with a 24-page lyric booklet featuring “never-before-seen photos.” The CDs are priced at $12.99. There were signed editions of the CDs up for pre-order on Swift’s website but they’re no longer available.
Midnights Vinyl Details
As for the vinyl version of Midnights, which is titled the Moonstone Blue Edition, it will come with a collectible album sleeve. According to the sales description, each side will feature “a different full-size photo” of Swift, a full-size gatefold photo, and an 8-page lyric booklet with “never-before-seen photos.” The vinyl disc will aptly showcase a moonstone blue marbled color.
On Aug. 31, Swift unveiled three special edition vinyl covers on Instagram: Midnights: Jade Green Edition Vinyl, Midnights: Mahogany Edition Vinyl, and Midnights: Blood Moon Edition Vinyl. Just like the CD versions, each vinyl disc comes with its own cover art and colored vinyl. The vinyl records are priced at $29.99.
In a Sept. 16 Instagram video, Swift shared that when all four vinyl records or CDs are grouped together and flipped over, they’ll form the image of a clock. I mean, would Midnights be a Taylor Swift album without some sort of cryptic message or easter egg? Swift is selling additional items to form an IRL clock out of the covers on her website.
Swifties, get out your cardigan sweaters because Taylor is dominating another fall season.
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