Taylor Swift Announces New Album Midnights, Breaks Record for Most Video of the Year Wins at 2022 VMAs

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Taylor Swift Announces New Album Midnights, Breaks Record for Most Video of the Year Wins at 2022 VMAs

The LP, “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout [Swift’s] life,” comes out October 21

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Taylor Swift, August 2022 (Bryan Bedder/Variety via Getty Images)

Taylor Swift won the Video of the Year award at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards tonight (August 28) for her 10-minute “All Too Well: The Short Film.” After accepting the award, Swift thanked her fans and revealed that her “brand new album“ will come out October 21. She later revealed on Instagram that it’s called Midnights and features “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout [her] life”; the album is now for sale on her website. An accompanying statement reads:

We lie awake in love and in fear, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at walls and drink until they speak back. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t—right this minute—about to make some fateful life-altering mistake.

This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. The floors we pace and the demons we face. For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching—hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes twelve…we’ll meet ourselves.

“All Too Well ((10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” earned Swift her third Video of the Year trophy, which means she officially broke the record for the most VMAs for Video of the Year. Swift previously earned the award with 2015’s “Bad Blood” and 2019’s “You Need to Calm Down.”

“I know with every second of this moment that we wouldn’t have been able to make this short film if it weren’t for you, the fans,” she said. “Because I wouldn’t be able to re-record my albums if it weren’t for you. You embolden me to do that. I had sort of made up my mind that if you were going to be this generous and give us this, I thought it might be a fun moment to tell you that my brand new album comes out October 21. And I will tell you more at midnight.”

Up until now, Swift was tied for the Video of the Year record with three other artists who’d also taken home two awards: Beyoncé (“Single Ladies” and “Formation”), Rihanna (“Umbrella” and “We Found Love”), and Eminem (“The Real Slim Shady” and “Without Me”).

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This article was originally published on Sunday, August 28 at 11:16 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on Monday, August 29 at 9:29 a.m. Eastern.

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