“The first song is called ‘Lavender Haze,'” Taylor Swift shared on Friday morning. Adding that the song is “about the act of ignoring” what others are saying, about “standing up for real things.”
It seemed like the perfect night to… learn the title of not one but several Midnight songs.
In the early hours of Friday, Taylor Swift added a little more “chaos” to “Midnights Mayhem with Me. The TikTok series in which she revealed the names of each song from her upcoming album, Midnights, one by one.
In each episode, Swift’s bingo cell decides the remaining titles to announce.
On Thursday night – midnight – singer Red shared another title track from the album, which will be released on October 21.
“The tension was so intense,” the 32-year-old singer said, twirling a ping pong ball until the number one – which she described as the album’s first track – emerged.
“The first song is called ‘Lavender Haze’,” the singer announced, but the chaos didn’t stop there.
Following the announcement, the “Bad Blood” hitmaker took to Instagram, sharing a clip explaining the inspiration behind Midnights’ opening song.
“I came across the phrase ‘Lavender Mist’ while watching Mad Men. And looked it up because I thought it was cool,” Swift said in the post. “And it turned out to be a generic term used in the 1950s where they simply described madness.”
She later explained, “When you’re in a lavender mist, it means you’re in the light of all-encompassing love, and I think that’s very beautiful.”
“I think a lot of people have to face this now, not just as ‘public figures’ because we live in the age of social media,” he explained. “And when the world knows you’re in love with someone, they’ll find it.”
The “All Too Well” hitmaker was a little more specific. Hinting that “Lavender Haze” was explicitly inspired by her relationship with her longtime boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn.
“Like my six-year relationship, we have to steer clear of weird rumors and tabloid stuff and just ignore them,” Swift said. “So this song is kind of an act of ignoring those things to protect the things that really are.”