Taylor Swift added to her huge assortment of accolades on the 2024 Folks’s Alternative Awards, although she was not current for the ceremony.
The pop star, 34, received 4 awards through the Sunday, February 18, occasion after receiving a complete of 5 nominations. She was honored as Feminine Artist of the 12 months, Pop Artist of the 12 months, Live performance Tour of the 12 months and Social Celeb of the 12 months. Whereas her Eras Tour live performance movie was up for Film of the 12 months, she didn’t win in that class. (The award went to Barbie.)
Previous to Sunday’s ceremony, Swift had taken residence 16 Folks’s Alternative Awards all through her profession, racking up 4 for Feminine Artist of the 12 months, two for Favourite Pop Artist, 4 for Favourite Nation Artist, two for Album of the 12 months, one for Favourite Tune, one for Live performance Tour of the 12 months, one for Music Video of the 12 months and one for Soundtrack Tune of the 12 months. Her 2024 additions carry her assortment to a fair 20 PCAs.
Swift was unable to attend the awards present in Santa Monica, California, as she is at the moment on the worldwide leg of her tour. She simply accomplished three nights of concert events in Melbourne, Australia, and can subsequent carry out 4 reveals in Sydney, Australia, from February 23 to February 26. Following six nights in Singapore in early March, she’s going to take a quick hiatus from her tour till Could.
Throughout her break, Swift will launch her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, on Friday, April 19. She opened up about her behind-the-scenes course of for the document earlier this month.
“I wanted to make it. It was actually a lifeline for me,” Swift instructed the group at her Melbourne live performance. “It form of jogged my memory of why songwriting is one thing that truly will get me by means of life and I’ve by no means had an album the place I’ve wanted songwriting greater than I wanted it on Tortured Poets.”
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Swift introduced the album throughout her acceptance speech for Greatest Pop Vocal Album on the 2024 Grammy Awards on February 4. She revealed on the time that she had been preserving the mission a secret from her followers “for the previous two years.”
Though Swift went on to win Album of the 12 months later within the ceremony, making historical past as the one artist to take residence the prize 4 occasions, she selected to spill the beans about her upcoming album early within the evening in case it was her solely alternative.
Marcelo Endelli/TAS23/Getty Photographs Whereas Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division got here as a shock to followers, the pop star seemingly left a number of Easter eggs hinting that her eleventh studio album was on its approach. Swift revealed her newest musical endeavor whereas accepting the award for Greatest Pop Vocal Album — her thirteenth profession win — […]
“I had instructed my mates, I instructed Jack [Antonoff], however I hadn’t actually instructed very many different individuals. I assumed, ‘OK, if I’m fortunate sufficient to win one factor tonight, I’m simply gonna do it. I’m simply gonna announce my album,’” she instructed the viewers throughout a tour cease in Tokyo, Japan, days later. “And by chance sufficient, that ended up taking place.”
Swift divulged that her “backup plan” was to share the information at her first live performance in Japan, including, “However because of you and your assist, I used to be fortunate sufficient to win a Grammy and let you know about it on stage on the Grammys.”
