Countdown to ‘Midnights’: What we know about Taylor Swift’s new album
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Jan 27, 2014 at 12:01 AMJan 27, 2014 at 4:22 PM
When Taylor Swift released her surprise ninth album in 2012, she said it would be her last. She wasn’t kidding. Swift’s new album, “Red,” is called “Midnights on a Real Train,” or something like that, and it is a collection of songs that were written between 2010 and 2013.
When Taylor Swift released her surprise ninth album in 2012, she said it would be her last. She wasn’t kidding.
Swift’s new album, “Red,” is called “Midnights on a Real Train,” or something like that, and it is a collection of songs that were written between 2010 and 2013.
Now that it’s out, Swift has to figure out what to do with all those songs without a deadline looming over her head. And according to a new report, that might not be easy.
“Midnights on a Real Train,” like most of the songs on Swift’s newly released album (which will be issued Aug. 26 — she is only 31 weeks pregnant) was originally written between 2010 and 2012 and was kept for two reasons: one, songwriters’ rights laws wouldn’t let Swift take songs to a publicist without permission; two, Swift had a hand in its development.
Songwriter/artist compensation under songwriters’ royalties
According to the website, “Midnights on a Real Train” was written by an unknown songwriter, whom the website says is a “music professional,” and not Swift, and the song deals with an “unlikely relationship.”
If that wasn’t enough, this is Swift’s seventh album. Her sixth, “Red,” was released by Reprise Records in 2012 and included 23 previously unreleased tracks that were culled in various combinations from albums recorded by Swift