Taylor Swift has revealed to fans in a live chat that her next album, Speak Now, will arrive in stores Oct. 25.
The pop star previously told MTV News the record would further delve into her favourite themes -- "boys and love" -- but for the benefit of some 58,000 fans tuned in to her Ustream chat, she expanded a little further.
Swift described her third album as a "conceptual" project. Could it be about fairy tales? Ponies? Ponies with wings?
Not exactly. Going off what Swift revealed, it sounds as though the album will be more like a variation of the theme of "boy-crazy country starlet tries to stop dripping tears all over her guitar."
Swift said the album title, Speak Now, "pertains to the album concept, and as an entire theme of the record, more than I can ever tell you." Swift says she was inspired by many people she encountered on her rise to fame as she wrote the album over the last two years.
"In life, you have a lot of situations and people come into your life and sometimes you don't get to tell them what you wish you would have told them," she said.
"The album is my opportunity to do that. Track by track, each song is a different confession to a different person."
According to MTV, the album, which was written entirely by Swift, unlike her past releases, will have 14 tracks. The first single, Mine, has already been selected. It's about boys.
As Swift explained, the song is about her "tendency to run from love.
"It's been sort of a recent tendency, and it's because every really direct example of love I've had in front of me has ended in good bye," said Swift, 20.
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