A torturous process.

Taylor Swift recently shared her varied experiences creating her two latest albums, “The Life of a Showgirl” and “The Tortured Poets Department,” during a new interview.

“Working on the last record, I was in a very different phase of my life at the time,” Swift, 35, mentioned on “Scott Mills on Radio 2’s Breakfast Show” on Monday, discussing “The Tortured Poets Department.”

“Just miserable,” she added. “And then when I put it out, I was so happy.”

Released in April 2024, Swift’s 11th studio album is thought to reflect her intense romance with The 1975’s lead singer Matty Healy after her split from British actor Joe Alwyn. The album includes emotional tracks such as “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “But Daddy I Love Him,” “So Long, London” and “Down Bad.”

“So it was like, ah, I love this art. I love this beautiful art about misery,” Swift continued on the radio show. “I, however, am not miserable anymore so it feels weird to talk about the record because it’s like, you can be proud of the work, but you can also just not relate to that person you were.”

The Grammy Award winner explained that unlike “The Tortured Poets Department,” her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is reflective of her current outlook on life.

“The cool thing about this record is that I’m in a very similar space in my life as to when I wrote it and now that I’m putting it out, which is nice…it’s nice when those things are not incongruous,” she said.

Swift’s new 12-track album, which came out Friday, is filled with upbeat songs about her romance with fiancé Travis Kelce.

When Swift announced “The Life of a Showgirl” on Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast in August, she said the album “just comes from, like, the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life.”

“And so that effervescence has come through on this record … This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a really long time,” she added.

Swift has already set records in the days since she dropped “The Life of a Showgirl.”

Billboard reported that she sold 2.7 million copies of the album within 24 years of its release, which marks her biggest album opening ever in the U.S. She also sold 1.2 million vinyls since the album’s release, beating her own previous record that she set with “The Tortured Poets Department” last year.