Taylor Swift's Midnights Track Reveals Show An Artist Completely In Control Of Her Fate
Taylor Swift has an embarrassingly tight hold on my life. Because of how intense the Swift fandom is, I still think I rank in the bottom ten (or at least 20) percent, but make no mistake, I've bought in. I've also been a fan since I'm Only Me When I'm With You from her debut album, so if nothing else, I can say I liked her before it was cool.
Right now, Swift is ramping up promotion for her tenth studio album, Midnights, which I’ve already preordered on vinyl (the Blood Moon special edition) even though I'm mostly going to listen to it digitally. Like I say, the woman has a hold on me. Right now, Swift is revealing her tracklist, but rather than just telling us it, she's doing what I can only describe as Twin Peaks cosplay, telling us all 13 tracks one by one at random midnights, seemingly revealing them in a random order.
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In these reveals, which are being released via TikTok, Swift dresses in autumnal colours against a brown velvet curtain, sitting neatly on a chocolate crushed velvet armchair and nonchalantly spinning a bingo wheel. Whatever number comes out, Swift then reveals the trackname, which she does by picking up a red rotary phone and speaking into it, her voice coming out in a vintage filter. She also holds the phone upside down in the second reveal, but I suspect that was just a mistake. Or maybe it's a clue! Who even knows anymore?
The first reveal was the 13th track, Swift's lucky number, leading some to suspect that the first reveal, or possibly all of them, are in a planned order, rather than random. Track 13 is the closing track of the standard edition of the album, and is called Mastermind. At the time of writing, the second track was
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