Everything we know so far about Taylor Swift’s surprise next album The Tortured Poets Department, including what Joe Alwyn has to do with it.
It looks like Taylor Swift will be taking us to “The Lakes” after all when she releases her next new album, “The Tortured Poets Department” in April 2024. Announced at the 2024 Grammys, the 11th album in Swift’s discography had been kept under wraps for two years, according to the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter.
Since she unveiled her next era, one more seemingly sepia-toned than the punchy colors of “Midnights,” Swift has taken moments in the international leg of her “Eras” tour to pull back the curtain even further on “The Tortured Poets Department.”
At her second show in Tokyo, Japan, Swift revealed that she planned to make the album announcement at that show if she hadn’t won any Grammys. She ended up taking home two — winning her 13th award for Best Pop Vocal Album. “Midnights” also took the coveted Album of the Year Grammy, and Swift set a record for the only artist to win four Album of the Year Grammys — for “Fearless,” “1989,” “folklore” and her latest, “Midnights.”
“I’ve been working on ‘Tortured Poets’ since right after I turned in ‘Midnights,’” Swift shared at Tokyo Dome, adding, “You turn in albums months in advance so that you can make vinyls, which are the best. I’ve been working on it for about two years,” she continued. “I kept working on it throughout the U.S. tour and when it was perfect — in my opinion when it’s good enough for you — I finished it and I am so, so excited that soon you’ll get to hear it. Soon we’ll get to experience that together.”
Swift has churned out a tremendous amount of music since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Even before that, she had announced that she would begin re-recording all of the albums she put out before “Lover” since the rights had been sold by Scooter Braun, and she wanted to own all of her work.
