

Just like Midnights,” she wrote.Īt 3 a.m. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. “ Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows.

In a tweet on October 21, 2022, the album’s release date, Swift also explained how the album captured the “highs and lows, and ebbs and flows” of her life in the past few years. 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.” The floors we pace and the demons we face. “This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t-right this minute-about to make some fateful life-altering mistake,” she wrote. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back.

“We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. She also confirmed that each of Midnights’ 13 songs were written in the “middle of the night”in a second Instagram post.
