She then quickly uploaded the album cover to X (formerly Twitter) alongside a photo of lyrics that 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.“
The plug is reminiscent of her acceptance speech at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards,where she announced the release of her tenth studio album,Midnights.
The 34-year-old also made history when she won the award for best album of the year withMidnights –her second trophy of the night. She is now the only person to have won the category four times (she previously won forFearless in 2010,1989 in 2016,andFolklore in 2021),overtaking Frank Sinatra,Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.
“I would love to tell you that this is the best moment of my life,but I feel this happy when I finish a song,or when I crack the code to a bridge I love ... Or when I’m rehearsing with my dancers or my band,or getting ready to go to Tokyo to play a show,” Swift said on stage. “For me,the award is the work. All I want to do is keep being able to do this,I love it so much.”
Meanwhile,Kylie Minogue emerged victorious in the battle of the Aussie pop icons. The singer’s catchy hitPadam Padam beat Troye Sivan’sRush in the pop dance recording category,officially making her a two-time Grammy winner – 20 years after winning her first golden gramophone,which she scooped in 2004 forCome into My World.