Two of the most charismatic (and globally successful) US musicians of the slightly younger generation march together.
Taylor Swift (32) and Lana Del Rey (37) made a song together. Their collaboration is also a trend-setting fusion of the aesthetic pop poles “West Coast” and “Somehow Country”.
Swift’s new album will be called Midnights. It will be released on October 21, 2022. The video accompanying the track listing announcement announces in a “one more thing” sort of stunt: “The fourth track is called ‘Snow On The Beach'”. And by the way:…featuring…Lana Del Rey”. At the same time, Swift announces the 13 songs of “Midnights”.
Your “songs” are definitely high word art with Tinder meaning, also politically, which may also announce the farewell to the harmless blonde sales machine, which some observers locate in the “Blue-Eyed” billion-stream heroine.
“Music Written in the Heat of the Night”
For example “Vigilante Shit” (freestyle roughly translated: “vigilante shit”), “Midnight Rain” (the word sound reminds of Guns N’ Roses), “Anti-Hero” (Joe Strummer-like), “Bejeweled” (Bling Bling Reckoning?) or “Mastermind” (herself!?).
Back in early October, Swift confirmed that Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey’s super-producing buddy, was busy with her own album.
Antonoff co-produced and co-wrote the records Chemtrails (2021) and Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) for Lana Del Rey.
Swift says of “Midnights”: “Music written in the heat of the night, a journey through terrors but also through sweet dreams”. And further, unusually Gothic: “We face the demons. An album for those who tossed and turned and then decided to light a candle. We go in search; hoping that maybe when the clock strikes midnight we’ll meet each other!” Sounds like you definitely have to wear BLACK to listen.
The full track listing of “Midnights” is as follows, on a whim we have taken the liberty of translating some song titles:
- maroon
- anti hero
- Snow on the Beach (with Lana Del Rey)
- You’re On Your Own, Kid
- midnight rain
- Question…?’
- ‘Vigilante Shit’
- Decorated with bling
- labyrinth
- karma
- sweet nothing
- mastermind
Swift revealed about the track “Lavender Haze” that it was named after an expression used in the 1950s to describe “being in love”. “Being in the ‘lavender haze’ meant you were in that all-encompassing love glow. I really liked that,” she said in the Instagram video.