Taylor Swift releases new album ‘Midnights’

“‘Midnights’ is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows,” the 11-time Grammy Award winner tweeted of the 13-track LP. “Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like ‘Midnights.’ Which is out now.”

Three hours later, Swift again took to social media to announce the release of “Midnights (3am Edition),” which includes seven bonus tracks.

“Surprise! I think of ‘Midnights’ as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13,” she tweeted.

“I’m calling them 3am tracks. 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.”

Fans have been clamoring for Swift’s album since late August, when she revealed at the 2022 MTV Music Awards that a new album was on the way. She later tweeted more details about the surprise project, which she said tells “the stories of 13 sleepless nights.”

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“We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. 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,” she tweeted on Aug. 29.

“This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. 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 12 ... we’ll meet ourselves.”

The post concluded: “Meet me at midnight.”

Swift’s last two albums consisting entirely of new music – “Folklore” and “Evermore” – came out in 2020, Variety previously reported. She also has been releasing rerecorded versions of her old albums periodically amid a dispute with record executive Scooter Braun, according to the news outlet.