Taylor Swift reveals a song title off Midnights — here's everything else we know about the album

 The songstress surprised us all by revealing at the 2022 VMAs that her next release wouldn't be one of her re-recorded albums as previously assumed, but her much-anticipated 10th studio album, Midnights, instead.

Longtime fans know all too well that Swift loves her surprises and Easter eggs, and after two surprise drops with Evermore and Folklore, the mad woman herself has gone back to release patterns of the past with an initial announcement and slow trickle of information.

Long story short, to prepare for the album's release on Oct. 21, EW has gathered all of the info we know about Midnights so far. Be sure to check back, as this story will be updated as we learn more.

Though a lead single has not yet been announced, Swift did take to her social media accounts on Sept. 21 to poke fun at her Easter egg-giving ways and reveal that she'd be releasing one track title at a time, at random, in a video series cheekily called "Midnights Mayhem with Me." The first song title, which belongs to the 13th track, was revealed to be "Mastermind." Previously, the tracks were only listed as "Track One," "Track Two," etc. on the album's cover. In total, there will be 13 tracks on the standard edition of the album (more on that below).



The songs will also be a return to more personal subject matters, after Swift moved away from that somewhat with her last two albums. In her note announcing Midnights, she described it as "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life."

"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 twelve... we'll meet ourselves," Swift wrote. Presumably, this means that, despite the album's moody title, there will be a mix of darker and lighter fare, and perhaps even a mish-mash of genres.

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