Daredevil

## ***Daredevil*** by Taylor Swift

***Daredevil*** is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on November 22, 2024. It marks her newest body of work after releasing all of her re-records, since *Midnights*, following the dispute regarding ownership of the masters to her first six albums. *Daredevil* is described by Swift to be about "different perspectives in a miserable life". The album explores lust, heartache, personal struggles and remorselessness.

Swift adopted a plain and minimalist fashion to the album, similar to *Midnights*. *Daredevil* is compared to be a mix of *Reputation* and *Lover* for its dark-themed but bubbly style.

## Songs

The opening track, "Clear" is a soft rock and electronic song describing Swift's public imagery in a fervent way. "Silent Killer" is dream built with snare drums and bass pedals. It's lyrics discern lust and begging for her partner to heal her from pain. The vengeful song, "Devil In Disguise" is an alternative rock driven with electronic trap. The electropop song "Problem...?" addresses her enemy to calm down. "Blackberry Winter" is a gloomy synth-pop ballad song which explores Swift's nightmares of being left alone. "Blue Sunsets" is a rock song with percussive elements of a painful remorse to leaving an ex-lover.

The seventh track, "Murder Express" is an electronic pop punk song of getting even. The bubblegum pop "Lovers' Lane" tells a fixation to a love interest. Swift tells a lover in "No Way To Come Back" that his life will end up miserable being with her, much to his apathy to her warnings. The song also features a pitched down voice of her. Swift shows laxity against her in "FFS", which explores a dark heavy blues production. The campy song, "Fanatic" explores self-affirmation and self-worth. the bluesy ballad "Last Night" tells a wistful memory of a past relationship. "Roses In My Hair" is an EDM love song influenced with synth-pop and an acoustic guitar. "Surreal", the final track of the album, tells a relationship revolving around scrutiny.

## Release and promotion

After the release of her last re-recorded album, *Reputation (Taylor's Version)*, Taylor posted pictures of orange and gloomy esthetic which started on August 23, 2024, much to it's relation with *Reputation*. On September 14, 2024, Swift revealed that she will be releasing a new album named *Daredevil* on November 22. In a *Thursday Night Football* broadcast on October 24, 2024, Swift revealed a trailer of compiled clips of a visual work of a song in the album. Later on, Swift announced that the lead single of the album is named "Devil In Disguise" and would be released on November. A few days later, she unveiled the rest of the track list on Tiktok, Facebook and Instagram stories through different short visuals of the song's track number and title one by one.

### Singles

On November 1, 2024, four weeks before the album release, "Devil In Disguise" was released as the lead for the album. It hit number one on the US *Billboard Hot 100* and remained at the top for seven non-consecutive weeks.

On January 10, 2025, Swift teased on her social media accounts that "Murder Express" would become the second single, and became available for digital download the next day.

"Clear" was sent to and impacted US rhythmic contemporary radio on February 28, 2025 as the third official single. The song's music video was released in March 5, 2025.

A remix version of "FFS" featuring Polo G was released on June 12, 2025, assisted by a music video and impacted the US contemporary radio.

### Promotional Singles

On December 2, 2024, Swift announced and posted teasers that she will be releasing "Manic! (Pixie Dream Boy)" as a promotional single and was made available to digital download on her website.

## Track Listing

***Daredevil*** — Standard Edition (TO BE CHANGED.)

***Daredevil*** — Deluxe Edition

## Trivia

* *Daredevil* is Taylor's fifth explicit album.
* *Daredevil*'s color theme is orange.
* The longest track on the album is "Last Night" (5:46), while the shortest track on the album is "Blue Sunsets" (2:26).
	+ Additionally, "Blue Sunsets" is one of her shortest songs of all time, as its the same length of “Now That We Don’t Talk”
* "Last Night" was the first track Swift wrote for the album, and the last one being "Surreal".
* The day before the album released, Swift revealed on an interview which songs were fountain, quill and glitter gel pen:
	+ Fountain Pen songs: "Clear", "Silent Killer", "Blue Sunsets", "No Way To Come Back", "FFS", "Surreal", "Dilemma"
	+ Quill Pen songs: "Blackberry Winter", "Last Night", "The War To End All Wars"
	+ Glitter Gel Pen songs: "Problem...?", "Lovers' Lane", "Manic! (Pixie Dream Boy)", "Roses In My Hair"