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Taylor Swift has teased us long enough. After months of taunting, and I mean months, I was ready to grab my clown make-up as the final moments of the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards came to an end. But at the very last minute (and after being gone from her seat for over an hour,) Swift made a special announcement while accepting her award for Video of the Year with “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)”: She will be releasing her newest record, Midnights, on October 21, officially closing out the Red (Taylor’s Version) era. The album cover shows Swift in glittery eye makeup and cat-eye liner, holding a lighter. “Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my…