Taylor Swift Releases 7 New Songs Just Hours After New Album Midnights: Listen - Pitchfork

Only 3 hours aft releasing her caller album, Midnights, Taylor Swift has dropped 7 much songs written during the album’s conception. Check retired the “3am Edition” of Midnights below, with the added songs starting astatine way 14, “The Great War.” Among the further batch are 3 songs prominently featuring the National’s Aaron Dessner, who did not lend to Midnights aft being a large portion of Folklore and Evermore. Jack Antonoff, who Swift kept connected committee for Midnights, worked intimately connected the different 4 other songs. 

Swift, who had promised a “special precise chaotic surprise” astatine 3 a.m., wrote connected societal media:

Surprise! I deliberation of Midnights arsenic a implicit conception album, with those 13 songs forming a afloat representation of the intensities of that mystifying, huffy hour. However! There were different songs we wrote connected our travel to find that magic 13. I’m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing much of our originative process with you, similar we bash with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.

The 3 caller songs that diagnostic Dessner are “The Great War,” “High Infidelity,” and “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”; each credits the National subordinate alongside Swift arsenic the song’s producer, composer, and lyricist. “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” besides features the National’s Bryce Dessner and Bryan Devendorf, and credits Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon among workplace unit and arsenic an engineer. “High Infidelity” besides includes contributions from Big Thief drummer James Krivchenia. Thomas Bartlett, aka Sufjan Stevens collaborator Doveman, is besides a impermanent connected each 3 Dessner tracks.

Swift announced Midnights itself portion accepting the trophy for Video of the Year astatine the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. The medium follows Folklore and Evermore, arsenic good arsenic Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), portion of her medium rerecording campaign. Swift worked intimately with Jack Antonoff connected Midnights, which has further contributions from Lana Del Rey, Zoë Kravitz, Joe Alwyn (aka William Bowery), Jahaan Sweet, Red Hearse’s Sam Dew and Sounwave, members of the Bleachers unrecorded band, and more.