Taylor Swift Confirms a “Midnights” Tour Is Happening “Sometime Soonish”

Taylor Swift is formally taking “Midnights” on the street. Through the filming of an episode of “The Graham Norton Present” set to air Oct. 28, per Individuals, Swift confirmed {that a} tour is unquestionably within the works. “We’ll someday soonish. It will occur,” Swift mentioned. “We’ll do it and it will likely be nice.” She did not present any extra particulars, however thanked followers for his or her assist on her new album. “I do assume it is somewhat accusatory when individuals say I broke Spotify,” she joked, referencing the truth that her album smashed the platform’s file to change into its most-streamed album in someday. “It was my beautiful followers that broke Spotify!”

Beforehand, Swift teased the tour throughout an Oct. 24 look on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon,” when the late-night talk-show host pressed a solution out of the “Bejeweled” singer after stating the truth that she hasn’t toured in 4 years.

“We would like you to,” mentioned Fallon, to which Swift replied, “I believe I ought to do it.” Fallon added: “When it is time, you may tell us.” “When it is time, we’ll do it,” Swift mentioned, confirming his assertion, earlier than she added how a lot she misses seeing her followers IRL.

“I miss it, I actually miss it,” she shared. “I miss if you write songs and also you’re pleased with the songs, and you’ve got the followers reacting. Probably the most potent manner you can see them react is if you’re wanting into their faces. I miss that so much. I actually miss that connection.”

Swift’s record-breaking “Midnights” album dropped on Oct. 21 and has acquired rave critiques from followers and big-name stars alike, together with Janet Jackson. Between teasing items of the album main as much as its launch — together with the observe checklist — and slowly releasing music movies for “Midnights”‘s songs, it seems Swift might be taking her time along with her newest album rollout.

Swift first introduced “Midnights” whereas accepting an award on the 2022 MTV VMAs on Aug. 28, sharing its album cowl in an Instagram put up later that night. “We lie awake in love and in worry, in turmoil and in tears. We stare at partitions and drink till they converse again. We twist in our self-made cages and pray that we aren’t – proper this minute – about to make some fateful life-altering mistake,” she wrote within the put up. “It is a assortment of music written in the midst of the evening, a journey via terrors and candy goals. The flooring we tempo and the demons we face. For all of us who’ve tossed and turned and determined to maintain the lanterns lit and search around – hoping that simply perhaps, when the clock strikes twelve … we’ll meet ourselves.”

Whereas followers anticipate tickets to change into accessible, there are nonetheless loads of “Midnights” drops to sit up for within the meantime. In line with the musician, she plans to launch a sequence of “‘Midnights’ music motion pictures” she labored on with cinematographer Rina Yang. Up to now, the visuals have featured cameos from Laura Dern, Dita Von Teese, frequent collaborators Jack Antonoff and the Haim sisters, and extra.