Taylor Swift's Seventh Album Will Be Her Longest Yet: 'There's A Lot Of A Lot'

Taylor Swift must have heard our collective whines for more interviews, because she's been on quite the press-friendly roll. Right after recently gushing about how "energized" she's feeling heading into her seventh album, Swift sat down for her first magazine interview in three years with Entertainment Weekly, giving us several discrete yet promising clues about her upcoming music.


In the cover story, Swift revealed that she began recording album No. 7 if she finished the Reputation Tour. Though it took her just under three months to finish, the project will mark the lengthiest album of her career so far, which means it'll be at least 17 songs long (Red, her current lengthiest release, has 16 tracks).


"I try not to go into making an album with any expectation," she explained. "I began to write so much that I knew immediately it would probably be bigger."


She added, "There’s a lot of a lot on this album. I’m attempting to convey an emotional spectrum. I certainly don’t wanna have also much of one thing. You get some joyful songs so you get the bops, as they mention there really are also, nevertheless, some "really, really, really, really sad songs," although "not enough where you have to worry about me."


One of these aforementioned bops is the buoyant lead single "ME!", which marked a stark left turn from the darker, moodier tone of the reputation era. "It’s certainly the fans that made that tonal shift in the way I was feeling," Swift mentioned, adding, "This time around I feel more comfortable being brave enough to be weak, because my fans are brave enough to be susceptible with me. Once people delve into the album, it’ll become pretty clear that that’s more of the fingerprint of this — that it’s much more of a singer-songwriter, personalized journey than the last one."


certainly, it wouldn't be a T. Swift story if she didn't also drop several easter eggs, and there really are almost definitely some clues to be uncovered in her EW photoshoot. On the mag cover, she wears a denim jacket with an assortment of buttons — there's everything from her fave Game of Thrones characters to ones with Drake and Selena Gomez on them. Could one or both of these artists be featured on her new album? Let the (guessing) games begin!