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. 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. 🌌
Midnights is a wild ride of an album and I couldn’t be happier that my co pilot on this adventure was Jack Antonoff. He’s my friend for life (presumptuous I know but I stand by it) and we’ve been making music together for nearly a decade HOWEVER… this is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators. We’d been toying with ideas and had written a few things we loved, but Midnights actually really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners (both actors) did a film together in Panama. Jack and I found ourselves back in New York, alone, recording every night, staying up late and exploring old memories and midnights past. We were so lucky to also work with our brilliant collaborators Sam Dew, Sounwave, Lana Del Rey, Jahaan Sweet, Keanu Beats, William Bowery, and Zoe Kravitz. Laura Sisk was our excellent engineer. The wonderful and wise Beth Garrabrant took the album photographs. Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights. Which is out now
Midnights track 1┃Lavender Haze
“Do you love me now?” I asked.
He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled. “Yes,” he said.
- The Queen of the Damned (1988)
Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights.
“It is difficult to explain how his words disarmed me, how efficiently succinct and impenetrable his argument was. All my conceptions, even my guilt and my wish to die, seemed utterly unimportant, and I completely forgot myself and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. For the first time in my life, I was seen.”
Interview With The Vampire | 1.01, ‘In Throes of Increasing Wonder…’ (2022)
Maybe, when the clock strikes twelve…we’ll meet ourselves
JACOB ANDERSON & SAM REID “In Throes of Increasing Wonder…” — Interview with the Vampire (1.01)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 4.04 | “Fear Itself”
TAYLOR SWIFT photographed by Sebastian Kim for Vanity Fair at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) dir. Rob Reiner
I would hear [the sound of a crowd screaming for her] and think, I can’t believe I get to hear that sound one time in my life, and then I would get a melody stuck in my head […] I wrote it into a song and I called that song Long Live.
#everyone clapped
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON #01.03 | Second of His Name
Harry’s Apartment – 57 East 11th Street PlantShed – 209 West 96th Street Cafe Luxembourg – 200 West 70th Street and Amsterdam Avenue Sharper Image Store – 4 West 57th Street [defunct] Marie & Jess’s Brownstone – 32 West 89th Street and Central Park West Bethesda Terrace & Fountain – 72nd Street Cross Drive (Central Park) Puck Building – 295 Lafayette Street and Houston Street
part one | part two
I say, “Can you believe it?” as we’re lying on the couch The moment, I can see it
Washington Square Arch – Washington Square North Loeb Boathouse – East 72 St. and Park Drive North (Central Park) Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore – 2259 Broadway and West 81st St. [defunct] The Metropolitan Museum of Art – 1000 5th Avenue and East 82nd St. Katz’s Delicatessen – 205 East Houston St. and Ludlow St. Puck Building – 295 Lafayette St and Houston St.
part one | part two
Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.
Pre-order now: https://taylor.lnk.to/taylorswiftmidnights
