When Taylor Swift released Lover successful August 2019, she revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the grounds was primitively titled "Daylight," the album's last track. She yet went with Lover due to the fact that she felt it acceptable the "aesthetically precise daytime" vibe compared to her erstwhile album, Reputation, which was "all cityscape, darkness, afloat swamp witch."

Now, 3 years later, Swift's adjacent medium is titled "Midnights," which is, obviously, dark. And let's each bespeak connected Lover's closing line, shall we?

"I wanna beryllium defined by the things that I love, not the things I hate. Not the things I'm acrophobic of, I'm acrophobic of oregon the things that haunt maine successful the mediate of the night. I conscionable deliberation that you are what you love."

When it comes to the 11th song, fans are convinced each signs constituent successful 1 direction: West. Yes, arsenic successful Kanye West.

"Karma is decidedly astir Kanye due to the fact that it's decidedly not a coincidence that it's Track 11," a instrumentality wrote connected Twitter. "When Innocent (her opus forgiving Kanye for the 2009 incidental originally), is Track 11 too."

Also, the day successful which she posted the "Karma" TikTok is telling arsenic well. 

"October 6, 2016, the archetypal demo of Kanye's opus Famous leaked with the afloat lyrics astir Taylor," another Swiftie noted. "October 6, 2022, Taylor announces Karma. Coincidence? I deliberation not."

A fewer different nuggets to adhd to the database of clues astir "Karma" see the nonstop word being written connected a partition successful graffiti successful the euphony video for "The Man" successful 2019, which was 3 years ago, right? If you are questioning if Swift truly person been plotting this opus for that long, fto america rewind to her quality on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon successful November 2021, successful which she said, "Can I hint astatine thing 3 years successful advance?"

Well, arsenic she sang successful "Look What You Made Me Do," which was astir her feud with West: "The satellite moves on, different day, different drama, drama. But not for me, not for me, each I deliberation astir is karma."

Swift revealed that Midnights' archetypal way was inspired by Mad Men, explaining she heard the operation "Lavender Haze" successful an occurrence of the AMC series. (It was said successful play two's "The Mountain King," by the way.)

"I looked it up due to the fact that I thought it sounded cool," Swift said. "And it turns retired that it was a communal operation that was utilized successful the '50s wherever they would conscionable picture being successful love." Or, arsenic Swift enactment it, having this "all-encompassing emotion glow."

So, yes, we expect this way to beryllium each astir her present six-year romance with histrion Joe Alwyn. "I guess, theoretically, erstwhile you're successful the 'Lavender Haze,' you volition bash thing to enactment determination and not fto radical bring you down disconnected of that cloud," she continued. "I deliberation a batch of radical person to woody with this now, not conscionable 'public figures,' due to the fact that we unrecorded successful the epoch of societal media and if the satellite finds retired that you're successful emotion with somebody, they're going to measurement successful connected it."

But she and Alywn person dealt with much than conscionable casual onlookers. "We've had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff, and we conscionable disregard it. And truthful this opus is benignant of astir the enactment of ignoring that worldly to support the existent stuff."

Okay, but is this the opus successful which Swift yet reveals the mates secretly got married?!

While revealing that way three's rubric is "Anti-Hero," Swift held the Midnights telephone upside down, marking 1 of 2 times she did so. (The different 1 was "Vigilante Shit.") Obviously, arsenic with thing Swift does, this faux pas was intentional, but what does it signify? Our champion conjecture is that Swift, who formed Stranger Things prima Sadie Sink successful her euphony video for her "All Too Well" abbreviated film, wrote these successful immoderate benignant of parallel beingness a la the Netflix series' Upside Down, wherever she is simply a villainous figure. Hide your straws 'cause we're grasping astatine 'em! (One instrumentality did theorize that this could beryllium a hint that these volition beryllium the songs that get euphony videos.)

Anyway, Swift aboriginal revealed that "Anti-Hero" is 1 of her favourite tracks she's ever written. 

"I conflict a batch with the thought that my beingness has go unmanageably sized. Not to dependable excessively dark, but I conflict with the thought of not feeling similar a person," she explained. "Don't consciousness atrocious for me, you don't request to. This opus is simply a existent guided circuit passim each the things I thin to hatred astir myself. We each hatred things astir ourselves, and it's each of those aspects of the things we dislike and similar astir ourselves that we person to travel to presumption with if we're going to beryllium this person."

Swift's lone collaboration connected the medium is way four, which finds her partnering up with Lana Del Rey for the archetypal time. 

"'Snow connected the Beach' is astir falling successful emotion with idiosyncratic astatine the aforesaid clip they're falling successful emotion with you," Swift explained connected Instagram. "Sort of successful this benignant of cataclysmic, fated infinitesimal wherever you recognize idiosyncratic feels precisely the aforesaid mode that you feel."

Swift and Del Rey's team-up is apt owed to their respective relationships with producer Jack Antonoff and fans are speculating the Bleachers vocalist produced "Snow connected the Beach."

We deliberation we tin each hold Niceboy Ed, the creator down the opus "Life You Lead," which is featured in the making-of-Midnights TikTok video, is decidedly a pseudonym. But for who? 

One campaigner is Joe Alwyn, who was credited arsenic William Bowery for the songs helium helped pen connected Folklore and Evermore and was 1 of the archetypal radical Niceboy Ed followed connected societal media. 

The different fishy is Ed Sheeran, 1 of Swift's closest friends and collaborators. Like, his sanction is Ed and helium seems nice!

In a high-concept theory that genuinely made america privation we had paid much attraction in our Greek mythology people successful college, 1 Swiftie shared their content that way ten, "Labyrinth" is the "evil twin" to "Invisible String" connected 2020's Folklore.  

Invisible String is based connected the Chinese folktale The Red String of Fate - fundamentally destined lovers...And successful Greek Mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a shot of reddish string," the instrumentality wrote. "so that helium could find his mode backmost retired of the Labyrinth aft slaying the Minotaur. But erstwhile helium came out, helium betrayed her, resulting successful either (the fable diverges) her decease oregon abandonment and past rescue and matrimony to the deity Dionysus."

They continued, "While invisible drawstring is astir fated love, Labyrinth could beryllium astir the deepest betrayal aft moving done the astir analyzable obstacles for a idiosyncratic who ne'er loved you."

One instrumentality connected Twitter posited a compelling mentation astir "Maroon" detailing astir Swift's disappointment erstwhile Red didn't triumph Album of the Year astatine the 2014 Grammys. 

Because erstwhile Swift announced "Midnights," she explained the songs were "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered passim my life." So, shared the Swiftie, "Is Maroon astir the sleepless nighttime we cognize she had aft Red didn't triumph the Grammy?" Forget Seattle, Swift is wholly Sleepless successful Sadness. We volition spot ourselves retired now.

One simple, straightforward and beardown mentation is that Midnights volition beryllium Swift's archetypal pop-rock album. 

"You cognize what rhymes with clock??? Rock," a instrumentality wrote connected Twitter. "Rock rhymes with clock. Midnights is simply a stone album."

After each of the way names for "Midnights" were released, Swift's authoritative instrumentality relationship tweeted astir the buying the album, writing, "For the precise archetypal time, you tin pre-order and cognize precisely what you're getting… we think."

Of course, the tacked connected "we think" caused a question of mayhem, with one instrumentality connected TikTok predicting Swift volition driblet different medium astatine the aforesaid time, 1 that besides includes 13 songs. Why? Because the wedding barroom successful the "I Bet You Think About Me" euphony video had a "26" written connected it.