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Taylor Swift and Ice Spice release 'Karma' video after performance at New Jersey show

Taylor Swift and Ice Spice release 'Karma' video after performance at

Fans of Taylor Swift and/or Ice Spice in New Jersey likely thought they'd racked up some good karma of their own, at least those who managed to snag tickets to Friday's show at MetLife Stadium — like the unexpected dynamic duo gave the audience two doses of "Karma" at the end of Swift's long set.

One was in the form of the song's video premiere, which went out into the world not long after, bowing on various platforms at midnight ET. The other was a first live performance by the duo, as the popular remix rapper took the stage to team up with the "Karma" headliner, who has closed out Swift's concerts every night since the Eras tour kicked off in April .


The music video for the collaboration, much teased but not announced by Swift until she made it official to the MetLife Stadium crowd Friday night, is filled with digital effects from start to finish and includes plenty of cosmic or celestial imagery.

"At the beginning of the year, when I was just training for this tour… I was contacted by Ice Spice. She sent a note saying, 'If you ever want to do a collab, I'd love to do it.' What she didn't know at the time is that when I was on the air for the tour, I was listening pretty much exclusively to her music… I was getting into the zone to tour because of her. And so I said, 'Absolutely, when I can do?' … And when we went to the studio, I not only fell in love with her, but I decided that she's the whole future… I've been around a lot of artists who are starting out, but I've never been around someone who is so prepared and curious and focused on what she wants."

The worldwide release of the music video followed 24 hours after the audio debut of the "Karma" remix. He appears on two new deluxe editions of the "Midnights" album. One is “Midnights (Til Dawn Edition), a digital release that came out at midnight on Thursday night. The other is "Midnights (Late Night Edition), an almost identical version — except for one very important song that was closed — that was released as a CD at the MetLife Stadium merchandise stand on Friday afternoon, followed by a 24 - clock. -Digital-only release starting Friday night on Swift's online store.

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