What a tease! Taylor Swift dances in sparkly lingerie in sneak peek of her Midnights music videos

Taylor Swift handled followers to teaser clips of the forthcoming music videos for her highly-anticipated tenth studio album Midnights, which dropped early Friday.

In the footage that aired earlier on Thursday Night Football, Swift delivered a feast for the eyes as she danced round in sparkly lingerie in one thrilling sequence. The clip featured the instrumentals from one of the album’s soon-to-be hit hits, together with the lead single Anti-Hero – with the music video now launched.

And followers have gone wild over the brand new launch, taking to Twitter’s #2 Trending spot as they stormed the social platform woth declarations of love for the album – which is written about 13 sleepless nights throughout her life.

Midnights additionally options some candy odes to Taylor’s boyfriend of six years Joe Alwyn, and addresses rumours of an engagement between the pair in love track Lavender Haze.

It gave the impression to be a hit amongst reviewers too, recieving 4 and 5 stars from a slew of publications- together with The Guardian and The Independent, with the latter’s Helen Brown describes: ‘It will make you are feeling as if you’re sleeping over at her home whereas she spills secrets and techniques and settles scores into the night time.’

In the album video teaser, Taylor defined: ‘I simply wished to first of all say thanks a lot to Amazon for giving me a chance to indicate you guys a first look teaser trailer of the key initiatives that I’ve been engaged on for a actually very long time,’ the songstress defined. ‘Those initiatives are the Midnights music motion pictures, the music videos that I’ve made for this album to type of discover visually the world of this file.

‘And I like storytelling, I like songwriting, I like writing videos, I like directing them. And this was a actually enjoyable alternative to work once more with the cinematographer Rina Yang, who was my collaborator on the All Too Well 10-minute quick movie.’

Swift mentioned she and her collaborators ‘actually wished to problem ourselves to do various things this time round and stretch,’ including, ‘I’m actually proud of what we made and I actually hope you want them. We labored with some superb actors, which you may discover out extra about on the finish of the teaser trailer.’

Deemed a night of ‘celebration,’ followers of Swift flooded social media with their first impressions as they eagerly labored their manner by way of the album’s 13 infectious tracks. 

Many Swifties expressed their love for the album’s lead single Anti-Hero and its relatability, with one fan feeling as if Swift ‘appeared into my brain’ whereas penning the lyrics.

Another mentioned that Anti-Hero is the ‘anthem of my life.’ 

‘The thrilling factor about a new Taylor Swift album will not be solely new music however a new persona to bother all my family and friends with,’ joked one Twitter person, who was clearly digging Swift’s pop resurgence. 

Along with Anti-Hero, followers voiced their love for the tracks Karma and Sweet Nothing. 

While critics rejoiced on the new launch too, as Billboard‘s Jason Lipshutz calls Midnights a ‘targeted, legacy-extending new project’ for Swift, who has been an unstoppable power since bursting onto the music scene in 2006.

‘A stunning tub of synths complementing lyrics caught between a love story and a revenge plot,’ describes Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone. 

While additionally leaning into a pop-synth sound that every one too acquainted to Swift, The Guardian‘s Alexis Petridis reminds listeners that ‘one thing of Folklore and Evermore’s understated nature hangs round Midnights.

Taylor additionally shared her ideas on the engagement rumors surrounding her and boyfriend of six years Joe, opening up the album with a observe titled ‘Lavender Haze’ singing: ‘All they preserve asking me/ Is if I’m gonna be your bride/ The solely kinda lady they see/ Is a one night time or a spouse.’ 

She then appeared to hit again on the outdated line of questioning: ‘I’m damned if I do give a rattling what folks say/ The Nineteen Fifties s*** they need from me.’

 The album additionally appeared to function a quantity of candy tributes to Joe, who even co-wrote observe Sweet Nothing.

Notable names showing in the clip embody actress Laura Dern, Haim members Alana Haim, Danielle Haim and Este Haim, mannequin Laith Ashley, music producer Jack Antonoff, comedian Mike Birbiglia and John Early, actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis and burlesque staple Dita Von Teese.

The teaser opens with a visible of Swift seated at a kitchen desk with her again to the digital camera as she gazes at a window with the drapes drawn.

Just because the clock strikes midnight, Swift opens the curtains to get a take a look at the night time sky.

Swift, clad in a furry blue jacket, is then seen blowing a pink smoke ring in direction of the digital camera earlier than a flurry of footage performs on display.

In the quick paced clips, Swift is seen with her head rising from pink tub water earlier than commanding consideration on stage in a showgirl-inspired rhinestone dress and wavy blonde tresses.

A hot-and-heavy dance scene exhibits Swift leaping into the arms of a shadowy stranger earlier than it cuts to a slow-motion clip of Swift being pushed backwards off of a mattress.

In one quirky scene, seemingly impressed by director Wes Anderson’s whimsical type, Swift is shocked after getting an arrow to the guts by a well-dressed man with a bow in hand.

Shortly after, a distraught Swift lets out a scream as she by chance pulls her corded cellphone off the wall.

Donning a glittering cloak, the Mean singer is transported to a cosmic realm that she gazes at in marvel.

Showgirl Swift returns in the midst of a high-production dance routine earlier than a dressed down Swift is captured sitting at a desk as a computer monitor lights up her makeup-free face.

In a montage, the Grammy Award-winner is seen in various seems to be together with simply a T-shirt whereas mendacity in mattress with a thriller man in addition to a Marie Antoinette impressed getup.

One eerie scenes exhibits Swift peeking out from inside of a coffin earlier than operating down a hallway in worry. The horror continues as Swift stares into a mirror solely to catch a double of herself standing behind her.

The teaser concludes with Swift’s model of Marie Antoinette providing the digital camera wink because the title card flashes on display. 

Midnights options 13 new songs and 4 bonus tracks on various platforms.

The 13 track names are: Lavender Haze, Maroon, Anti-Hero, Snow On The Beach (that includes Lana Del Rey), You’re On Your Own, Kid, Midnight Rain, Questions…?, Vigilante Sh**, Bejeweled, Labyrinth, Karma, Sweet Nothing and Mastermind.

Apple Music model does provide one bonus tracks, titled Meet me at midnight.

Meanwhile, Midnights: Lavender Edition – which is a Target unique – options one bonus track and two remixes: Hits Different, You’re On Your Own, Kid (Strings Remix) and Sweet Nothing (Piano Remix)

Ahead of the album’s launch, Taylor tweeted Thursday: ‘Hey guys, it is Taylor. If you tune into the Thursday Night Football recreation on Amazon Prime, I’m going to be displaying a first take a look at the key initiatives that I’ve been engaged on very exhausting for a very very long time, preparing for the Midnights album.’

Swift answered questions from followers in regards to the album from SiriusXM Hits 1 listeners. Asked if the album comprises upbeat materials, Swift mentioned, ‘Yes, completely.

‘The idea of the album Midnights is the acute feelings you could be feeling in the center of the night time,’ she mentioned. ‘What retains you up at night time? And so, it is reflecting again on sure nights of my life of why I used to be awake in the center of the night time.’

Swift mentioned the fabric covers a vary of feelings ‘from grief to disappointment, to worry, to anger, to flirtation or daydreaming about somebody, or falling in love or feeling overconfident.

She added: ‘You know, it is, I believe it is simply a actually intense time of day. So, I wished to cover heaps of completely different points of that.’ 

Swift mentioned that good dance songs on the album embody Karma, Lavender Haze and Vigilante S***.

Swift told fans that every one of the fabric on the Midnights is new, saying all of it ‘New work.’

She added: ‘Nothing is left over from a completely different album. It may need been, you recognize, concepts or ideas or issues I’ve thought of perhaps making in the previous, however I did not write something till I used to be making this album.’

Swift mentioned it’s a ‘enjoyable factor’ for her to replicate again on previous work.

‘That all does often result in one thing, however you recognize, if we’re reflecting again on eras previous and music that I’ve made in the previous, I believe you may discover that there is a actually good purpose for that,’ she mentioned. ‘But it does not essentially need to do with this album.’

Swift earlier this week stepped up the promotional push for her tenth studio album, Midnights. 

On Wednesday, the pop celebrity took to social media and revealed: ‘Our final midnight earlier than Midnights,’ together with a Seventies retro promo photograph of Swift laying again on a sofa in a room full of wooden paneling. 

Midnights marks one more part in the singer-songwriter’s huge track output in latest years, the place she’s launched 4 studio albums since Lover dropped in August 2019.

‘Our final midnight earlier than Midnights’ is a play with phrases on the very fact this would be the final midnight earlier than the brand new file is launched on Friday, October 21.

Always one to wish to build up drama forward of a new project, Team Swift additionally teamed up with Spotify to assist build up the hype by releasing snippets of lyrics from Midnights.

The 32-year-old singer has been revealing random lyrics on billboards all the world over of late, as reported by Billboard.

The first lyrics began popping up in New York City’s Times Square on Monday, October 17. At the stroke of midnight, a huge vertical signal on one finish of the plaza lit up with the lyric ‘I shouldn’t be left to my very own gadgets.’

The subsequent space was in London, England, with simply a 5 phrase excerpt from her album: ‘I polish up actual good.’

In the newest reveals, a Sao Paulo, Brazil, prepare station lit up at midnight native time showcasing in shiny purple lettering and the lyric: ‘Just like clockwork, the dominoes cascaded in a line.’ 

There’s additionally one on the facet of Nashville’s 1720 West End constructing, displaying the phrases: ‘Did you ever have somebody kiss you in a crowded room?’

Come midnight Thursday morning, October 20, followers could very effectively have one other lyric billboard to pore over — however solely time will inform what that location will probably be.

In latest weeks, the songstress took to social media to showcase the 4 completely different album covers she has printed for the vinyl editions.