Swift could attend her first road game of the season, as she is performing in Toronto on both ends of the game during the Canadian leg of the ‘Eras Tour’.
Meanwhile, last week Swift earned six Grammy nods for her 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department — including Album Of The Year — as well as for her duet with rising star Gracie Abrams.
The 13-time Grammy winner made history this time around as she is now the first female artist to be nominated for Album Of The Year a total of seven times.
Swift thanked the 50,000 fans at Rogers Centre for supporting TTPD since its release in April as she broke her silence on the Grammy nods, admitting it is an ’emotional’ album for her.
She also said she was in total disbelief to be up for six awards at the upcoming 2025 Grammys ceremony in LA — tying Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan in nominations.
‘You guys did something so amazing over the course of the last few months. I just mean what you did with embracing The Tortured Poets Department, the album,’ Swift began.
‘It’s truly blown my mind because its really emotional for me that this album, I wrote it during the Eras Tour.’
She spoke about the secrecy surrounding the making of the album and the lengths she went to to keep it a ‘surprise’ for fans.
‘I wrote that album, made that album, all [while] trying to keep it a secret from you guys. And then announced the album, and then we basically were, like, working really hard to secretly put together a new chapter in the Eras Tour of The Tortured Poets Department and we wanted to surprise you with it, and we did,’ Swift explained.
She credited the fans — who refer to themselves as ‘Swifties’ — for making The Tortured Poets Department one of her most successful albums to date.
‘And you guys have been so wonderful about getting into this album and really understanding where I was coming from with it and you made it by far, the biggest debut week I’ve ever had of an album. And you kept that album at number one for nearly four months,’ the Anti-Hero hitmaker told the crowd.
‘And the most recent thing that you did, because everything that happens is a direct reflection of the passion that you show, is you guys got this album nominated for six Grammys.
‘It’s so unbelievable, so thank you,’ Swift concluded.
On November 8, it was announced that The Tortured Poets Department had been nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal album.