Sorry, Swifties, a surprise album isn’t dropping soon.
On Monday, Taylor Swift addressed recent rumors swirling over an alleged third album, “Woodvale,” during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
“Okay, well, this takes a bit of explanation,” the 31-year-old singer began.
“I tend to be sort of annoyingly secret-agenty about dropping clues and hints and Easter eggs and it’s very annoying but it’s fun for fans and it’s fun for me because they like to pick up on things. And they’ll notice lots of things in music videos or photos or whatever, and then sometimes, I take it too far, and I make a mistake,” Swift continued.
Over the summer, Swifties spotted the word “Woodvale” written in the trees on a black-and-white album cover of “Folklore.” According to the “Champagne Problems” crooner, it was a misstep.
“When I was making ‘Folklore,’ the album that came out back in July, I was too afraid to even unveil the title of the album to even my closest teammates and management. I didn’t tell anybody the album title until right before it came out,” Swift explained.
“And so I came up with a fake codename that had the same amount of letters as ‘Folklore,’ Chose a random name, chose ‘Woodvale.’ Wanted to see how it would look on the album covers, mocked them up, and then decided, I don’t actually want to have a title on the album covers and we forgot to take the fake codename off of one of them,” she continued.
When Kimmel pressed, “Is that really true,” Swift replied, “Yes.”
Swift added that her ninth studio album, “Evermore,” also had a codename of “November,” but they took it off all of the mockups.
“We learned our lesson,” the singer said.
Kimmel then theorized another potential album, but Swift shot him down.
“Jimmy, I’m so tired,” she said. “I’ve tired myself out.”