Taylor Swift reveals late-night musings on pop album 'Midnights'

Taylor Swift returned to pop on Friday with the debut of her 10th studio album, a record called Midnights inspired by her late-night thoughts, and she also released a video of her "nightmare scenarios" in the genre of a horror flick.

The 32-year-old singer-songwriter described the 13-track Midnights as "a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows."

"Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights," Swift wrote on Instagram.

The pop record followed folk albums Folklore and Evermore, which Swift recorded while quarantining during the Covid-19 pandemic. Folklore was named album of the year at the Grammys in 2021.

The first single from Midnights, called Anti-Hero, was released with a video starring Swift as a woman alone at night in a 1970s home invaded by ghosts. She later appears in a coffin at her own funeral. "Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time," Swift said about the video.

In the Los Angeles Times, pop music critic Mikael Wood said the Midnights album "heralds the return of a pop music mastermind."