Taylor Swift announces 11th studio album, 'The Tortured Poet's Department'

LOS ANGELES (TND) — Taylor Swift marked winning her 13th Grammy award Sunday night by announcing her 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poet's Department."

Swift, who became the first artist ever to win "Album of the Year" for the fourth time, last released a collection of new material in 2022 with "Midnights." Since then, she has been, in part, focused on her record-setting, economic-booming "Eras Tour" as well as releasing new recordings of her first six studio albums.

The 2023 Time magazine "Person of the Year" and newly minted billionaire shared the album art and a snippet of a handwritten lyric shortly after her win Sunday night, and announced the record would be released on April 19.

The lyric fragment reads, in part, "And so I enter into evidence, my tarnished coat of arms, my muses acquired like bruises, my talismans and charms tick tick tick of love bombs."

Swift's "Eras" tour resumes Wednesday in Tokyo.