Taylor Swift has revealed that she planned to announce her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, at her Tokyo concerts if she hadn’t won a Grammy.
The star, 34, who won two awards at Sunday’s ceremony, including Album of the Year for Midnights, told the audience on Wednesday: “Going into the Grammys, going in, I had this plan.
But I hadn’t really told many other people. I thought, ‘Okay, if I’m lucky enough to get there and win something tonight, I’ll do it.’ I’m just going to announce my new album.
And, fortunately, that ended up happening. My backup plan was to do it tonight in Tokyo.
‘But thanks to you and your support, I was lucky enough to win a Grammy and tell you about it on the Grammy stage. And now we can talk about it later, we can make a report tonight.
Taylor Swift has revealed that she planned to announce her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, at her Tokyo concerts if she hadn’t won a Grammy.
The star, who took the Tokyo Dome stage for her first of four consecutive shows this week, announced her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, during the Grammys on Sunday.
This comes after Taylor responded to critics who questioned why she writes “so many albums” during her Eras Tour in Tokyo on Wednesday.
The Bad Blood hitmaker, 34, who took the Tokyo Dome stage for her first of four consecutive shows this week, announced her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, during her Grammy acceptance speech on Sunday.
While in Tokyo, where he nearly fell off a chair during a passionate performance, he told his fans: “Everyone asks, ‘Why do you make so many albums?’ I say, ‘Man, because I love it!’ I love it so much!”‘
‘I’m having fun, leave me alone!’ Swift, who received criticism for seemingly ignoring Celine Dion at the Grammys, added.
The star also revealed that work on the new album began right after finishing his last album Midnights in 2022.
“I’ve been working on Tortured Poets since I turned in Midnights.”
‘You deliver an album months in advance to be able to make vinyl, which are the best. So I started working on it straight after and I’ve been working on it for about two years.’
He also shared that if he hadn’t won a Grammy on Sunday, he planned to announce the new album at the first Tokyo concert.
She said: ‘And luckily, that ended up happening. My backup plan was to do it tonight in Tokyo.
The star triumphed by choosing Album of the Year.
“I thought, ‘If I’m lucky enough to get a Grammy… I’ll just do it’… My backup plan was to do it tonight in Tokyo.”
“I kept working on it throughout the US tour, and when it was perfect in my opinion, when it was good enough for you, I finished it,” he continued.
‘I’m so, so excited that you’ll be able to hear it soon. Soon we will be able to experience that together, and I say, I’m delighted that you care about my music. It still surprises me.’
‘I love to do this. I know I keep saying that, but it’s because it’s true.’
The Department of Tortured Poets will be released on April 19.
Their latest album Midnights was released in 2022, marking their tenth original studio album.
While in Tokyo, he told his fans: “Everyone says, ‘Why do you make so many albums?’ I say, ‘Man, because I love it!’ I love it so much!” And he added: “I’m having fun, leave me alone!”
The star revealed that work on the new album began right after finishing his last album Midnights in 2022.
He also shared that if he hadn’t won a Grammy on Sunday, he planned to announce the new album at the first Tokyo concert: “My backup plan was to do it tonight in Tokyo.”
‘I’m delighted that you care about my music. It still surprises me. I love to do this. “I know I keep saying that, but it’s because it’s true,” he gushed to fans.
During the show, Swift suffered a rare onstage mishap when she nearly fell off her chair during a passionate performance.
The star, who will return to the US this weekend for the Super Bowl, was performing a racy rendition of the hit Vigilante S**t, in which she is seen squatting with her legs spread before slowly descending onto a chair.
However, Taylor, dressed in a midnight blue leotard, misjudged the position of the chair and was seen stumbling before regaining her composure.
Fans quickly took to social media to praise the star for avoiding an on-stage catastrophe, writing: “she’s been doing squats because I would have fallen on my butt.”
Another wrote: “Her thighs are probably so strong she could sit like this without the chair for the entire song.”
As she performed some of her biggest hits in front of 55,000 fans, the pop star appeared in good spirits with a shiny guitar in her hands and Swifties singing along to every song.
While she just arrived in Asia earlier this week, following her attendance at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, where she made history by winning album of the year for the fourth time, the Cardigan hitmaker is reportedly ready to make a mad dash to Las Vegas. to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, 34, take on the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Sunday.
For her surprise songs, which are two different songs she performs, one on the piano and the other on the guitar, the 14-time Grammy winner thrilled the crowd with Holy Ground and Dear Reader.
In more good news for Swift fans, her film Eras Tour is headed exclusively to Disney+, with five additional songs not previously included in theaters or in previous digital releases.
Swift resumed the Eras tour as she took the stage for her first of four sold-out shows at the Tokyo Dome on Wednesday night.
As she performed some of her biggest hits in front of 55,000 fans, the pop star appeared in good spirits with a shiny guitar in her hands and Swifties singing along to every song.
In more good news for Swift fans, her film Eras Tour is headed exclusively to Disney+, with five additional songs not previously included in theaters or previous digital releases.
The Cardigan hitmaker will reportedly make a mad dash to Las Vegas to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, 34, take on the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Sunday; The two are seen on January 28 in Baltimore.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie is headed exclusively to Disney+, with five additional songs not previously included in theaters or previous digital releases.
‘#TSTheErasTourTaylorsVersion found itself running to @DisneyPlus,’ Taylor Nation announced on X (formerly known as Twitter). ‘Starting March 15, watch the entire concert film for the first time from the beginning to the end of the show, including “cardigan” and 4 bonus songs from the acoustic section!’
Disney CEO Bob Iger called the pop star’s tour “a true phenomenon that has thrilled and continues to thrill fans around the world.”
The Eras Tour concert film, which grossed $96 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend, even earned a Golden Globe nomination for film and box office achievement.