Midnights, 13 stories of sleepless nights

By: 김이령

At the 2022 VMA, American Pop star Taylor Swift announced that her new and 10th album, Midnights would be released in 2022/10/22. After her release of her Midnights album and the 3am version (this has 7 more songs, “The Great War”, “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”, “Paris”, “High Infidelity”, “Glitch”, “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”.), songs of Midnights stroke the billboard chart, making the main track “Anti-hero” on the 1st for billboard Hot 100, Billboard hot 200, Billboard Streaming Songs, and the album Midnights was on the 1st for Top Album Sales, Top Current Sales, and Vinyl Album, and Taylor Swift herself was on the 1st for Artist 100. Here are some issues and facts about Taylor Swift’s 10th album. Midnights. 

Taylor Swift used to put Easter Eggs, to make fans guess about new album releases, and this was the case. In the music video for her song “Bejeweled”, Taylor made clear that she will be re-recording her 3rd album, Speak Now. Here are some clues. The first scene we see in the video is Taylor playing the role for Cinderella, and the 3 stepsisters and her stepmother coming in and taking about the ball, playing some kind of music in the background. Fans noticed that the background music was “Enchanted”, a song from Speak Now. Moving on to the part where Taylor is riding on an elevator, pushing the button 3. In here, each buttons mean each album. 1 mean Debut, 2 means Fearless, 3 means Speak Now, 4 means Red, 5 means 1989, 6 means Reputation, 7 means Lover, 8 means Folklore, 9 means Evermore, 10 means the re-recording version of Fearless, 11 means the re-recording version of Red, and 12 means Midnights. And the 13 is the re-recording version of Speak Now, and 13 is also the same color as 3, and 13 is also Taylor’s lucky number. 

Taylor was not been on tour for a very long time. Since the Lover Fest was postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Taylor was not on tour for her 8th and 9th album, Folklore and Evermore. Taylor announced her tour for Midnights “Taylor Swift Era Tour” which is a tour about all 10 albums that Taylor made. The first event is scheduled in march 13th, 2023. 

Taylor Swift made 2 music videos for the album, Anti-Hero and Bejeweled. Anti-Hero is a song that show narcissism and hatred. The lines that show this “I will stand directly at the sun but never in the mirror, must be exhausted always rooting for the Anti-Hero”. Taylor made a Youtube shorts challenge, also known as the TSAnti-Hero Challenge, making dances moves to the line “It’s me, Hi, everybody agrees, at tea time, everybody agrees, Everybody agrees”. 

The next song was Bejeweled. Bejeweled starts with a quick acting scene, with Taylor playing the part of Cinderella. The video is all about Cinderella, and she made clear that the she could be the queen of POP again. Taylor wears a hoodie looking like she wore in the Willow Music Video from Evermore, but this time, with a lot of jewels. This shows that Taylor would be back again to become the queen of Pop, but more shinny and shimming this time. 


It has been 17 years from her debut album Taylor Swift, and Taylor did not disappointed the fans. Midnights was on the billboard chart #1 for so a long time and shows that her fame does not end till the 10th album, Midnights.