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It’s new music Friday, but it’s also a very special — and long-awaited one — for Swifties. Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated 10th studio album, Midnights, at the stroke of midnight ET on Oct. 21 and unveiled a glimmering set of 13 new songs. But when the clock stuck twelve on the West Coast, fans received an unexpected treat.
“Surprise!” Swift exclaimed on social media. “I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13.”
She continued, “Lately, I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.”
While the original album includes “Anti-Hero,” the Lana Del Rey collaboration “Snow on the Beach” and other tracks such as “Midnight Rain,” “Karma” and the fan hyped “Vigilante Shit,” the “3 a.m.” songs consists of seven previously unannounced offerings: “The Great War,” “Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” “Paris,” “High Infidelity,” “Glitch,” “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” and “Dear Reader.”
Swift, who worked on the album largely with Jack Antonoff, shared her thoughts on the album process shortly after the album’s release. “This is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators,” she explained.
All that said, now with 20 songs to choose from on Midnights, which one are you loving the most? Vote in our poll below.
Diversity is the name of the game! This week’s new music Friday offerings includes a hip-hop heavyweight, pop-punk legends and British alternative rockers returning with new material. But which release is your favorite?
Lil Baby is back with a vengeance on It’s Only Me, which sees him enlisting a bevy of hip-hop heavyweights for guest spots — including Future, Young Thug, Jeremih, Pooh Shiesty and more — to provide assists. Though one to make a mean hit, Baby instead goes for narrative storytelling over flashiness, as he discusses his unprecedented rise to stardom over the past few years.
Over on the rock front, Blink-182‘s original lineup has reunited, with Tom DeLonge joining the band alongside Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker. And to celebrate, the pop-punk trio released new song “Edging,” which sees them relying on their tongue-in-cheek nature (“I’m a punk rock kid, I came from hell with a curse/ She tried to pray it away, so I f–ked her in church”). The release offers the first look at the newly reunited group’s yet-to-be-titled album.
The 1975‘s Being Funny in a Foreign Language, produced by Jack Antonoff, continues to offer the glimmering, alternative-tinged pop music longtime fans of the band know and love. Standout track “Oh Caroline” recalls The 1975’s work on its self-titled LP and sophomore release, I Like It When You Sleep, with ’80s-inspired synthesizers and concentrated efforts from every member in the band.
So which new release this week is your favorite? Vote in our poll below!