Content

• Background
• Singles
• Track listing
• Notes

Background

Midnights is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Released via Republic Records on October 21, 2022 the album was met with critical acclaim. Swift first announced the album after winning Video of the Year at the 2022 MTV Music Video Awards. Swift has stated that the album is a concept album about nocturnal contemplation and inspired by “13 sleepless nights” throughout her life. The album features collaborations with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, whom Swift has worked with since 1989. It is the first time that Antonoff is marked as the main collaborator on the album. Aaron Dessner, who worked previously with Swift on folklore and evermore, also appears as a collaborator on four songs, one on the Target exclusive “Lavender Edition” and three on the “3am Edition”. The album features guest vocals by Lana Del Rey and new collaborations with Jahaan Sweet, Keanu Torres, Mark Spears, Sam Dew and Zoë Kravitz. William Bowery (Joe Alwyn) also collaborates with Swift on one track on the album. The album also marks Swift’s return to a more pop-oriented sound with electronica, synth-pop, bedroom pop, chill-out and dream pop. Its subject matter contains confessional yet cryptic lyrics, discussing self-criticism, self-assurance, insecurity, anxiety, and insomnia.

A Lavender Edition was released exclusively to US Target stores, with the physical CD including 3 bonus tracks, one bonus song and two remixes of songs on the standard album. At 3am EST on the album’s release day, Swift released seven extra songs from the album that didn’t make the original cut of the standard 13-track album dubbing them as “3am tracks”, similar to the “From The Vault” tracks released on her re-recordings of her albums, calling the entire 20 track version the “3am Edition”. Apple Music versions of the standard album included an 8 second “Meet me at midnight” track of Taylor describing the album. On January 5, 2023, Swift released 4 limited edition alternate covers for the album to her official store, each with a different bonus track of behind the songs of “Anti-Hero”, “Bejeweled”, “Karma” and “Mastermind”. On May 26, 2023, Swift released two more editions of the album, The Til Dawn Edition featuring the Target bonus track, “Hits Different”, a new recording of “Snow On The Beach” with more of Lana Del Rey’s vocals and a new remix of “Karma” featuring Ice Spice, and The Late Night Edition featuring five of the 3am tracks, a new vault track and the two new versions of “Snow On The Beach” and “Karma” and only available on site at Swift’s Eras Tour stop in East Rutherford. The edition was released for a limited time the next day for digital download on Swift’s official store.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it Swift’s 11th consecutive album to top the chart. The album broke Spotify’s record for most single-day streams of an album and topped the charts in 25 territories, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It sold over 1.5 million units in the US alone making it the fastest and best-selling album of 2022. The album also logged the highest vinyl sales of the 21st century, as well as having 10 songs on the album simultaneously top the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Swift the first artist in the history of the chart to command the first 10 top spots on a single album, as well as the most of any album in a single week.

Singles

“Anti-Hero” was released as the album’s first single on October 21, 2022 and debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the same week as the album, making the song Swift’s fourth song to debut at number one alongside it’s album release, following “cardigan” on folklore, “willow” on evermore and “All Too Well” on Red (Taylor’s Version). On November 29, 2022, “Lavender Haze” was released to contemporary radio stations as the album’s second single and prior to its release as a single, the song had peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 21, 2022 right behind “Anti-Hero”. On May 1, 2023, “Karma” was released as the third single from the album to contemporary radio. The song peaked at number nine on October 21, 2022 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

Midnights – Standard (Note: All tracks written and produced by Swift & Antonoff except noted.)

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
1. “Lavender Haze”	Antonoff, Jahaan Sweet, Mark Spears, Sam Dew, Swift, Zoë Kravitz	Braxton Cook, Antonoff, Sweet, Spears, Swift	3:21
2. “Maroon”			3:37
3. “Anti-Hero”			3:20
4. “Snow On The Beach” (feat. Lana Del Rey)	Antonoff, Del Rey, Swift		4:15
5. “You’re On Your Own, Kid”			3:13
6. “Midnight Rain”			2:54
7. “Question…?”			3:30
8. “Vigilante Shit”	Swift		2:44
9. “Bejeweled”			3:13
10. “Labyrinth”			4:07
11. “Karma”	Antonoff, Sweet, Keanu Torres, Spears, Swift	Antonoff, Sweet, Keanu Beats, Spears, Swift	3:24
12. “Sweet Nothing”	Swift, William Bowery		3:07
13. “Mastermind”			3:10

Midnights – Apple Music Bonus Track

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “Meet me at midnight”	Taylor Swift	N/A	0:08

Midnights – Anti-Hero (Behind The Song)

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “Anti-Hero” (Behind the Song)	Taylor Swift	N/A	0:32

Midnights – Bejeweled (Behind The Song)

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “Bejeweled” (Behind the Song)	Taylor Swift	N/A	0:44

Midnights – Karma (Behind The Song)

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “Karma” (Behind the Song)	Taylor Swift	N/A	0:43

Midnights – Mastermind (Behind The Song)

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “Mastermind” (Behind the Song)	Taylor Swift	N/A	0:35

Midnights – Deluxe CD

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “Hits Different”	Aaron Dessner, Antonoff, Swift	Dessner, Antonoff, Swift	3:54
15. “You’re On Your Own, Kid” (Strings Remix)			3:19
16. “Sweet Nothing” (Piano Remix)	Swift, Bowery		3:27

Midnights – 3am Edition

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “The Great War”	Dessner, Swift	Dessner, Swift	4:00
15. “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”	Swift		3:38
16. “Paris”			3:16
17. “High Infidelity”	Dessner, Swift	Dessner, Swift	3:51
18. “Glitch”	Antonoff, Sweet, Spears, Swift	Antonoff, Spear, Swift	2:28
19. “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”	Dessner, Swift	Dessner, Swift	4:20
20. “Dear Reader”			3:45

Midnights – The Til Dawn Edition

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
21. “Hits Different”	Dessner, Antonoff, Swift	Dessner, Antonoff, Swift	3:54
22. “Snow On The Beach” (feat. More Lana Del Rey)	Antonoff, Del Rey, Swift		3:50
23. “Karma” (feat. Ice Spice)	Ephrem Lopez, Isis Gaston, Antonoff, Sweet, Torres, Spears, Swift		3:21

Midnights – The Late Night Edition

Tracks	Writers	Producers	Length
14. “The Great War”	Dessner, Swift	Dessner, Swift	4:00
15. “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”	Swift		3:38
16. “High Infidelity”	Dessner, Swift	Dessner, Swift	3:51
17. “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”	Dessner, Swift	Dessner, Swift	4:20
18. “Dear Reader”			3:45
19. “You’re Losing Me” (From The Vault)			4:37
20. “Snow On The Beach” (feat. More Lana Del Rey)	Antonoff, Del Rey, Swift		3:50
21. “Karma” (feat. Ice Spice)	Lopez, Gaston, Antonoff, Sweet, Torres, Spears, Swift		3:21

Notes

• Five editions were released of the album, Moonstone Blue, Jade Green, Mahogany, Blood Moon and Lavender. When the Moonstone and Lavender, along with Jade Green, Mahogany and Blood Moon editions of the album are flipped to the back, they form the numbers of a clock when combined (Moonstone and Lavender editions both being the top right of a clock).
• Clean versions of the Moonstone Blue (CD, digital download and streaming services) Edition, 3am Edition and The Til Dawn Edition (both digital download and streaming services only) contain altered lyrics of specific songs.
  • “Lavender Haze” alters the line “All this shit is new to me” to “All of this is new to me” and silences the word shit.
  • “Maroon” alters the lines “Your roommate’s cheap-ass screw-top rosé, that’s how” to “Your roommates cheapest screw-top rosé, that’s how”,”Ain’t that the way shit always ends?” to “Ain’t that the way it always ends?” and “That’s a real fucking legacy” to “That’s a real lasting legacy”.
  • “Snow On The Beach” alters “Weird, but fucking beautiful” to “Weird, but it was beautiful”.
  • “Question…?” alters “Fuckin’ situations, circumstances” to “Lost in situations, circumstances”, “She was on your mind with some dickhead guy” to “She was on your mind with some meathead guy”, and “Fuckin’ politics and gender roles” to “Caught in politics and gender roles”.
  • “Vigilante Shit” alters the lines “I don’t start shit but I can tell you how it ends” to “I don’t start it but I can tell you how it ends”, “She don’t start shit but she can tell you how it ends” to “She don’t start it but she can tell you how it ends” and “I’m on my vigilante shit again” to “I’m on my vigilante shh again”.
  • “Karma” alters “You’re talking shit for the hell of it” to “You flip the script for the hell of it” and “Flexing like a goddamn acrobat” to “Flexing like a Vegas acrobat”.
• The clean version of The Til Dawn Edition of the album has altered lyrics for “Hits Different”.
  • “Shit my friends say to get me by” is altered to “It’s what my friends say to get me by”.
  • “Rip the band-aid off and skip town likе an asshole outlaw” is altered to “Rip the band-aid off and skip town likе an unhinged outlaw”.
  • “It hits different, yeah, hits different cause it’s you” is altered to “Yeah, hits different cause it’s you”.
• “Question…” interpolates “Out of the Woods”.
• A grand total of 22 songs were written for the album.
• A video deluxe edition of the 3am Edition was released exclusively to Apple Music featuring both the music videos for “Anti-Hero” and “Bejeweled” along with lyric videos for all twenty tracks.

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