Are you ready for a newTaylor Swiftera?

Swift made thesurprise announcementwhile accepting her prize for the night’s most coveted award, and credited her fans with helping inspire the winning video for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version).”

“I wouldn’t be able to re-record my albums if it weren’t for you. You embolden me to do that, and I had sort of made up my mind that if you were going to be this generous and give us this, I thought it might be a fun moment to tell you that my brand new album comes out Oct. 21,” she told the crowd.

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NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 28: Taylor Swift accepts the Video of the Year award for “All Too Well” (10-minute Taylor’s Version) onstage at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on August 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global)

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NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 28: Taylor Swift accepts the Video of the Year award for “All Too Well” (10-minute Taylor’s Version) onstage at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on August 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

The forthcoming album marks Swift’s first full-length set of new material since 2021’sEvermoreand first overall release sinceRed (Taylor’s Version), a re-recording of her fourth album, 2012’sRed, which spawned her latestBillboardHot 100-topping hit single, “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version).”

In June, Swift released a haunting ballad titled"Carolina"from the upcoming filmWhere the Crawdads Sing— three months after previewing the song in theDaisy Edgar-Jones-starring film’s trailer.

Alongside the trailer’s debut,Swift released merchandisethemed around1989as well as her third studio album,Speak Now, on her website — prompting fans to speculate1989 (Taylor’s Version)andSpeak Now (Taylor’s Version)could be coming soon.

“This Love (Taylor’s Version)” was the second re-recorded track from1989to be released. Amid the rollout of last year’sRed (Taylor’s Version),1989’s fifth single “Wildest Dreams” went viral on TikTok due to a slow zoom video trend, andSwift released “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)“as a surprise to fans.

Alongside the new music, Swift is in the midst of re-recording her first six albums after Scooter Braunbought her former record labelBig Machine, which gave him control of the masters, in June 2019. He latersold the masters for $300 million to Shamrock Holdingsin November 2020.

The 2022 VMAs aired live Sunday night from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

source: people.com