Taylor Swift announces new album by surprise at the 2024 Grammys: 'The Tortured Poets Department'

Huge surprise for Taylor Swift fans. The singer announced a new album during the 66th Grammy Awards ceremony, but not the one her fans expected for that evening. It will not be the re-recording of Reputationher sixth studio album, the next thing to be heard from the Pennsylvanian, but a completely new album: The Tortured Poets Department.

The singer was the last to arrive on the red carpet at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles (California) and even presenter Trevor Noah has joked that she was the last to enter the room. An hour and a half later she took the stage to her for her award as the winner for best pop album, for her album Midnights. It was the 13th gramophone of her career, her lucky number (it coincides with her birthday, December 13), as she herself noted. When she picked it up, she thanked her fans, millions of hers, who follow her incessantly and have come in millions to the 66 concerts that she has already given. The Eras Tour, her megatour that will take her to 40 cities around the world. “I want to thank you fans by telling you a secret that I have kept for the last two years, and that is that my new album comes out on April 19.” It also announced its title, The Tortured Poets Department“the department of tortured poets.”

Barely two minutes later, its cover was already on their networks, and in just five minutes on Instagram it was close to three million. of I like. The album went on sale immediately on their website, with queues, and an average time of almost an hour to buy it in advance.

Nobody expected the arrival of Swift's 11th album. If anything, a re-recording. The singer lost control of what were her six albums in 2018, when she was 29 years old, of everything recorded between 2006 and 2017. Starting in 2020, she was able to re-record those albums, and she did so with the second, third, fourth and fifth (Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989). They only need to record the first one, Taylor Swiftand the sixth, Reputation; All she needs to do is recover her name and his reputation. Swift often leaves many clues, called Easter eggs, in photographs, her clothing, and her social media activity. By attending the 66th Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 4 (4+2 equals 6) and having 6 nominations, and with a series of clues that he has been leaving these days and that his fans have been unraveling, it was expected that could release that sixth album. But not. The surprise has been even greater.

After their first six albums and after lover (2019), Folklore, Evermore (from 2020) and Midnights (which was also announced at another award ceremony, the 2022 MTV VMAs), this will be number 11. At the moment, the number of songs and themes are unknown; He has only published a few lines of what seems like a song, in his own handwriting, on his social networks.

Swift is at a moment of maximum popularity. This week she flies to Japan to resume her tour concerts. The Eras Tour, and in Tokyo he will give four recitals. Afterwards, she will return to the United States to attend the Super Bowl in Las Vegas (Nevada), in which her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, will fight for the title for his team, the Kansas City Chief. In March she will sing in Australia and Singapore, then make a stop on her tour at the end of March and during the month of April to continue with her tour in May throughout Europe. She will finish in December in Canada.