At midnight on 21 September — one month before the album’s 21 October release — Taylor Swift released the first track name from “Midnights” via TikTok after the social platform teased the big announcement earlier in the day, thus beginning a new fun social media game show. In the initial video — accompanied by lift-like music — Swift told fans: “It’s me. Hi, I know that I have a habit of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when giving you information about new music, and I am not here to deny that, but I’m here to defy that. Welcome to a new series I’m calling ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me.’ I’m going to be using this technologically-advanced device to help me allow fate to decide exactly what track titles I’m going to be announcing and in what order.”
“You, know, I struggle a lot with the idea that my life has become unmanageably sized and that, you know — not to sound too dark — I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person,” admitted the singer-songwriter. “Like don’t feel bad for me, you don’t need to. This song really is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself – we all hate things about ourselves and it’s all of those aspects of the things we like and dislike about ourselves that we have to come to terms with if we’re gonna be this person. I like ‘Antihero’ a lot because I think it’s really honest.”
Then, today, Swift revealed the last remaining tracks in quick succession on TikTok. The final reveal? Track No.4, which is titled “Snow on the Beach,” will feature none other Lana Del Rey. She accompanied the video with the caption, “The season finale of Midnights Mayhem with Me, with QUITE the twist of an ending…”
“Midnights,” which reteams Swift with a frequent collaborator, producer Jack Antonoff, is already available to preorder and presave.
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