The singer's 11th studio album is due out April 19.
Swifties won big on GRAMMY night, with Taylor Swift announcing her 11th studio album. After the 34-year-old old singer won the Best Pop Vocal Album award for Midnights -- marking her 13th GRAMMY award -- she delighted her fans by revealing that her next album, The Tortured Poets Department, will be available April 19.
Famously, Swift considers 13 to be her lucky number, something she mentioned during her acceptance speech.
"OK, this is my 13th GRAMMY, which is my lucky number. I don't know if I’ve ever told you that," Swift quipped. "I want to say thank you to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this way, but I know that the way that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans."
Swift opted "to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping from you for the last two years," which is the upcoming album drop.
After her acceptance speech, the singer took to Instagram to share the cover art for the album. The black-and-white pic shows Swift lying on a bed, surrounded by pillows.
The second slide of the post featured a handwritten page of what appeared to be lyrics, which read, "And so I enter into evidence / My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink."
At the bottom of the page, Swift wrote, "All's fair in love and poetry - sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department."
The album will be Swift's first since news broke of her split from longtime love Joe Alwyn, and fans were quick to uncover an apparent link to him in the title.
Back in 2022, the actor revealed that he and pals Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott had started a group chat labeled, "The Tortured Man Club."
The album news came as a shock to fans, with many assuming that Swift's next release would Reputation (Taylor's Version). Swift has both Reputation and her self-titled debut left in her ongoing rerecording project.
Swift's fans have been eagerly awaiting an announcement regarding Reputation, which made waves with its original 2017 release. At the time, it served as a scathing response to the star's highly publicized falling out with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, led by the fiery single, "Look What You Made Me Do." The album also featured several hits and fan-favorites, including "...Ready for It?," "Getaway Car," and "Don't Blame Me."
One of her Reputation era love songs -- "End Game" featuring Ed Sheeran and Future -- has also seen a recent surge in popularity among Swift fans, as they've taken to affectionately speculating that Swift has now found her relationship "End Game" in current boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce.
Hours before the GRAMMYs, Swift fanned the flames when her website appeared to crash. The carefully curated error message "Error 321 Backend fetch failed," which indicates a poor telephone line connection to a fax machine. Sleuthing Swifties were quick to connect the dots to "Look What You Made Me Do," in which Swift memorably delivers the line, "I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now."
Another Easter egg included a seemingly random line of letters reading, "hneriergrd." Unscrambled, the letters spell "red herring" -- a clue meant to distract from what's really happening.
It was famously at the 2016 GRAMMYs when Swift, while accepting the Album of the Year trophy for 1989, seemed to reference West name dropping her in his single, "Famous." Later, Kardashian released an edited video of a phone call between the artists that seemed to show the moment Swift OK'd the line. However, when the full clip of the call was later dug up by Swifties, it became evident that the pop star had only been told about a different lyric.
Recently, Swift called the incident a "fully manufactured frame job" in her 2023 Person of the Year interview with Time.
Though Swift has made no public statement about her intent to release Reputation (Taylor's Version), eagle-eyed fans thought they noticed several subtle hints in recent months.
Among those was Swift's wardrobe, which has been comprised almost entirely of green, black and brown clothing during her public outings in recent months -- particularly during her visits to famed New York City recording studio, Electric Lady. The ongoing color scheme appeared to serve as an homage to the snake imagery she previously used to promote her 2017 studio album.
Swift's last release, 1989 (Taylor's Version), came out in October and became her biggest album sales debut ever. The feat made her the first ever artist to score six No. 1 album debuts with over 1 million units sold.
Now, with her Midnights chapter and the 2024 GRAMMY Awards in the rear view, Swift's focus is on resuming her Eras Tour in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 7. She'll play a four-night stint at the Tokyo Dome before, presumably, making the quick trip back to the United States to cheer for Kelce in the upcoming Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11.
After Japan, Swift is set to perform in Australia, Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Austria.
In the fall, she'll return to North America for shows in Miami, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Toronto, and Vancouver.
"Taylor and Travis are doing really well," a source recently told ET. "They try to spend as much time as they can together. Travis also makes it a point to make sure Taylor feels as comfortable as possible at his home. They have discussed their future as a couple and are excited at the idea of it."
The 2024 GRAMMY Awards aired on Sunday, Feb. 4, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+ from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Follow along at ETonline.com for full coverage from music's biggest night, including performances, GRAMMY winners and more.
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