Taylor Swift announces new LP, the follow-up to Fearless

Taylor Swift will release her new album on 25 October

Taylor Swift has announced details of her forthcoming third album, Speak Now.

The Grammy award-winning country-pop singer will release the follow-up to 2008's Fearless, on 25 October.

In a live web-chat with fans she said: "I've been working on it for two years, so ever since we put out Fearless."

She added: "I've been writing for this record and sort of conceptualising it and putting it together in my head and sort of figuring out what I want it to be."

No 'help'

Twenty-one-year-old Swift, who has sold nearly 14 millions albums worldwide, said it was important for her to take a short break from music to gain experiences to write about and revealed she's moved into her first home.

Taylor Swift has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide since 2006

"In the past two years, I've experienced a lot of things that I've been dying to write about and a lot of things that I wanted to say in the moment that I didn't," she said.

The 14 songs on the album were written in New York, Kansas, Boston and Nashville.

"I didn't have any co-writers, and it didn't really happen on purpose," she added. "I'd get my best ideas at 3am in Arkansas when I didn't have any co-writers around, so I would just finish it."

The first taste of fresh music fans can expect to hear is new single Mine, out at the end of August.

"[It's about] my tendency to run from love," she said. "Every really direct example of love that I've had in front of me has ended in goodbye and has ended in breakups and things like that.

"So I think I've developed this pattern of sort of running away when it comes time to fall in love. This song is sort of about finding the exception to that."