Taylor Swift has just announced that her new record Speak Now will be released on October 25th of this year.

In a recent chat via the web, Swift gave fans details on her new album.

The first single and video called "Mine" is about "my tendency to run from love", she said during the chat.

The video was shot in Maine and Swift said she considers retiring there. She also said that all of the songs were written by herself.

"For me, I write everything that I live, so you've got to give yourself a little bit of time to live a lot of things so you can write about a lot of things," she told fans.

"My only option is to write about what I've been through and what I've lived. Thankfully, in the past two years, I've experienced a lot of things I've been dying to write about and a lot of things I wanted to say, in the moment, that I didn't.

"You know, in life, you have a lot of situations that pop up, and people that come into your life.

"Sometimes you don't get to tell them what you wish you'd told them. This album is my opportunity to do that. Track by track, each song is a different confession to a different person."

Talking about "Mine," Swift said, "It's a song that is about ... my tendency to run from love. It's been sort of a recent tendency. I think it's because that, for me, every really direct example of love that I've had in front of me has ended in goodbye, has ended in breakups. I think I've developed this pattern of sort of running away when it comes time to fall in love and to stay in a relationship.

"The song is sort of about finding the exception to that and finding someone who would make you believe in love and realize that it could work out. I'm never, ever going to go past hoping that love can work out. I'm always going to be very hopeful and blindly optimistic when it comes to love."