During her Monday, Oct. 6, appearance on Scott Mills on Radio 2's Breakfast Show, the "Opalite" singer reflected on her experience writing The Tortured Poets Department, which was released in April 2024.

"The cool thing about this record is that I'm in a very similar space in my life as to when I wrote it and now that I'm putting it out, which is nice...it's nice when those things are not incongruous," Swift, 35, said, referring to her latest record, The Life of a Showgirl.

"You know, like with the last record, I was in such a different place in my life when I wrote it."

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When asked if she was alluding to The Tortured Poets Department, Swift said yes. "Just miserable. And then when I put it out, I was so happy."

"So it was like, ah, I love this art. I love this beautiful art about misery. I, however, am not miserable anymore so it feels weird to talk about the record because it's like, you can be proud of the work, but you can also just not relate to that person you were," concluded Swift. "Anyway."

Swift announced The Tortured Poets Department during an acceptance speech at the 2024 Grammy Awards, revealing that it had been a secret she had been keeping for two years.

Leading up to the album's release, Swift curated playlists from her extensive discography based on different phases of heartbreak.

The album came out amid Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour, calling it "an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time."

"One that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author's life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up," she wrote in part Instagram upon the album's release on April 19.

"There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page."

"Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that's left behind is the tortured poetry," she concluded.

"I can't tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait," she wrote on Instagram.

"If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain..."