Taylor Swift Surprises Fans With ‘Midnights 3 A.M. Edition’ Featuring 7 Additional Songs - Rolling Stone

Three hours after releasing her medium Midnights, Taylor Swift kept the surprises coming by dropping Midnights (3 a.m. Edition), an extended mentation of the LP that features 7 further songs. Swift had been promising that thing “special” and “very chaotic” was coming and she delivered, calling these “3 a.m. tracks,” respective of which were co-written and produced by her erstwhile collaborator Aaron Dessner.

“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,” Swift announced connected Instagram. “However! There were different songs we wrote connected our travel to find that magic 13.”

She added, “I’m calling them ‘3 a.m. 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 3 a.m. and I’m giving them to you now. 🌌”

Following the album’s archetypal person “Mastermind,” Swift added the 7 caller songs, including “The Great War,” “High Infidelity,” and “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve,” co-written and produced by Dessner, who worked connected Folklore. The different tracks — co-produced by Jack Antonoff — see “Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” Paris,” “Glitch,” and “Dear Reader.” Mark Spears and Sam Dew are credited connected “Glitch” arsenic co-writers, portion Spears, who goes by Sounwave, is credited arsenic a co-producer arsenic well.

Fans had been speculating for hours what the astonishment would be, sharing TikToks of their instrumentality theories and pointing to clues and imaginable easter eggs. Several Swifties rallied astir the thought that possibly a circuit announcement was coming, particularly aft fans successful the U.K. who preordered the medium were told they’d person a presale codification for a “yet to beryllium announced” circuit connected the way.

Others believed that possibly Midnights would travel with a sister medium oregon task — conscionable similar Folklore and Evermore — and that it would beryllium called Manifest since she posted an Instagram teaser that showed a calendar with the connection “Manifest” written connected it. (These fans were the closest!)

A 3rd conjecture was that she was dropping a documentary (potentially titled Manifest) since astir streaming services — including Disney+ wherever she released her Folklore: Long Pond Sessions film successful 2020 — merchandise caller contented astatine 3 a.m.

All week, Swift has been revealing lyrics from her caller medium connected billboards with Spotify astir the world.

Her medium rollout includes video for her opus “Anti-Hero” Friday morning, late-night amusement appearances, and lyric videos. She besides teased  a special teaser trailer of the medium videos during Thursday night’s Saints-Cardinals game.