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Necessary Realness: Taylor Swift Is The Queen of Easter Eggs
Taylor Swift is filling successful a blank abstraction astir 1 of the tracks connected her upcoming album Midnights.
The singer, 32, dropped the sanction of the 13th opus connected the tracklist…ready for it? Because it is…"Mastermind."
Swift shared this revelation astatine the changeable of, well, midnight connected Sept. 21 successful a caller TikTok bid called "Midnights Mayhem With Me." While the creator volition everlastingly and ever beryllium known arsenic the queen of Easter eggs, she wanted to usage this bid arsenic a mode to straight stock accusation about Midnights with her fans.
"I cognize that I person a wont of dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs erstwhile giving you accusation astir my music, and I americium not present to contradict that," she said. "But I americium present to defy that. Welcome to a caller bid I'm calling 'Midnights Mayhem With Me.'"
Using a "technologically precocious device," a.k.a. a bingo shot cage, Swift explained that she was going to "allow destiny to decide" what way titles to denote and successful what order.
"In this cage are 13 Ping Pong balls labeled 1 done 13, each representing a way connected the Midnights album," she said. "So, let's permission it up to fate."
Perhaps fittingly, the archetypal shot that rolled retired of the cage was the 1 labeled with the fig 13, Swift's favourite number.
"Track 13," Swift said, "because of course."
Picking up a reddish phone, the 11-time Grammy victor past revealed the sanction of the opus and fans couldn't shingle disconnected their excitement. "MASTERMIND IS RIGHT TAYLOR," 1 follower commented. Added another, "SUCH A PERFECT NAME."
Swift announced her upcoming album astatine the 2022 MTV VMAs successful August portion accepting the Video of the Year grant for "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)." Since then, she's continued to driblet hints about Midnights, specified arsenic by sharing the cover art and posting behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the album.
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In an August Instagram post, Swift described Midnights as "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered" passim her life.
"We prevarication awake successful emotion and successful fear, successful turmoil and successful tears," she shared. "We look astatine walls and portion until they talk back. We twist successful our self-made cages and commune that we aren't—right successful this minute—about to marque immoderate fateful life-altering mistake. This is simply a postulation of euphony written successful the mediate of the night, a travel done terrors and saccharine dreams. The floors we gait and the demons we face. For each of america who person tossed and turned and decided to support the lanterns lit and spell searching—hoping that conscionable maybe, erstwhile the timepiece strikes twelve… we'll conscionable ourselves."
Midnights will beryllium released Oct. 21.
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