Fans thought Taylor Swift would debut new music at the Tokyo concert

Taylor Swift had fans convinced they would hear music from her upcoming album, The department of tortured poetsmonths before release.

While performing in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, February 8, Swift, 34, revealed she would be playing two “brand new songs” in the acoustic set that she has never played live. (Swift performs several pairs of surprise songs every night on her Eras Tour, trying not to repeat them unless she makes a mistake on stage.)

“Wait! Sorry! I didn't mean from the new album,” Swift clarified to the crowd. She ended up singing “Electric Touch (Taylor's Version)” and “Eyes Open (Taylor's Version)” from her re-recorded Speak Now and Red albums..

“I've never performed this live. I love this one,” Swift noted of “Electric Touch,” which fans first heard when Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was released last summer.

Swift resumed the international leg of her Eras Tour days after announcing her 11th album on Sunday, February 4, at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

“[The way I can celebrate] is to tell you a secret that I have been hiding from you for the past two years, namely that my brand new album will be released on April 19th. It's called The Tortured Poets Department and I'm going to post the cover backstage now,” she said as she accepted her win for Best Pop Vocal Album for her 2022 record. Midnights.

She went on to share the artwork The department of tortured poets, which featured Swift lying in a bed in black lingerie, via Instagram with an accompanying poem. “And so I come as evidence for my tarnished coat of arms,” she wrote. “My muses got like bruises, my talismans and charms. The tick, tick, tick of the love bombs. My take on pitch black ink. Everything is fair…”

Swift has since provided more information about her upcoming record, including the full track list, which features collaborations PostMalone And Florence + the machine.

Other album titles include 'My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys', 'Down Bad', 'Fresh Out the Slammer', 'I Can Fix Him (No, Real, I Can)' and 'So Long, London '.

Fans assume Swift's six-year romance is coming to an end Joe Alwyn served as a source of inspiration The department of tortured poets. (We weekly confirmed the former couple's divorce in April 2023, and Swift has since moved on with NFL stardom Travis Kelce.)

Alwyn, 32, specifically talked about having a group chat Paul Mescal And Andrew Scott called the 'Tortured Man Club'.

“It's me, you – and Andrew Scott founded the group,” he said during Variety's Actors on Actors interview with Mescal, 28, in December 2022. “[Andrew is] he just sent himself a good morning. We were both in the Sally Rooney universe and crossed over with Lenny Abrahamson. We were so lucky to have that experience.”