Taylor Swift Shakes Off Country Music For Pop

Taylor Swift is shaking off her country music roots, for now, and embracing pop.

The 24-year-old has announced she is releasing her first full-length pop album in October.

Speaking in a livestream via Yahoo!, the singer said that 1989, named for her birth year, is her "first documented official pop album".

She also debuted her first single from the album which is called Shake It Off.

"We made the most sonically cohesive album I've ever made," she said.

Swift's last effort was 2012's Red, which sold 1.2 million copies in its first week.

She said she was mainly inspired by late 80s pop music when recording 1989 over the past two years.

"I woke up every day ... not wanting, but needing to make a new style of music than I made before," she told viewers of the livestream.

The new album is out on October 27.