Name: Taylor Swift Talks Record-Breaking Midnights Album, Music Video Cameos and Easter Eggs
Uploaded: 2024-08-25T18:45:12.000Z
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You look fantastic. Thanks for coming back.

Thank you so much. That was really nice, guys.

There's such a buzz around the whole block in New York City, just the fact that you're here. We're so excited.

Well, yeah, we got to talk about midnight.

I just want to break down a couple of things.

In just one day of sales, it became the top-selling album of the year already.

Yeah, in just one day of sales of the whole year.

Midnight broke Spotify's record for most streams in a day.

Today, the top 10 songs on Apple Music and Spotify are from Midnight's.

You can plug your ears, because I'm just going to keep going.

Rolling Stone called Midnight's an instant classic, and their five-star review!

This album is on track to sell well over 1 million copies in its first week.

It's a concept record, but it's my first directly autobiographical album in a while, because the last album that I put out was a rerecord of my album, Red.

You know, I wrote that stuff a decade ago.

Folklore and Evermore, it was like story time.

They went and did this and felt this way.

So I'm feeling like I'm feeling very overwhelmed by the fans' love for the record.

I'm also feeling, like, very soft and fragile.

So it's... The two can exist at once, but the fact that the fans have done this, like, the breaking of the records and the going out to the snores and getting it, it's like, you know, I'm 32, so we're considered geriatric pop stars.

They start trying to put us out to pasture at age 25.

You said a lot of this album is made out of 13 stories, 13 sleepless nights throughout your life.

Do you just get up and go, in the middle of your sleep?

You know, record something on your phone or jot something down, like, this is something.

I don't even know if it's good. I'm blurting it out.

Or do you go like, oh, this has got a good hook?

I love writing songs, poems, stories, scripts.

I love writing those things because there's a part of it that I don't quite understand how it comes to fruition.

There's something so mysterious about writing.

But I've found that the more I write, the more I keep writing.

I don't know what's been going on, but in the last six or seven years,

And the more things I make, the happier I am.

So, yeah, some of them, sometimes it feels completely involuntary.

Sometimes, like, your day is completely interrupted by a hook or a lyric or just a thing on piano

Sometimes you don't know what the place for it is going to be, but I just am always reaching for my phone and recording things.

Mastermind is going to be the 13th track?

I think over the years, my fans and I, we kind of have a really funny sort of, like, they tease me a lot, and I enjoy it.

And one of the things they like to make fun of me for is the kind of cryptic needing to plan things out.

And, like, I think we've just stopped pretending it's accidental at this point.

It's almost like to write, like, five albums just for one album, because you're like, no, this has to mean this and this has...

The way you listed just the names of the tracks was so exciting.

Thank you for saying that that was exciting.

I loved it. I was hoping people were, like...

It was so fun with the bingo balls going around.

Yeah, I posted videos on TikTok of me with a vintage bingo cage, like, with a handle.

And I just announced track, you know, one at a time.

And people, including me, I go, oh, I think that'll be my favorite song.

It's so... Without even hearing the song.

It's so cool to hear you say that, because that was just me, you know,

I don't know, with my phone in a bingo cage.

On this one, you collaborate with some very fun people.

I saw Zoe Kravitz is listed. We love her.

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