Taylor Swift Reveals Details Of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Album: Release Date, Tracklist, And The Story Behind The Album
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Taylor Swift is giving Swifties a first look at her upcoming and latest album, The Life of a Showgirl. It drops on 3 October and features a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter on the title track.
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She revealed the cover and tracklist on 14 August during an appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights, hosted with his brother Jason Kelce. Talking about the album, Taylor said, “This album is about what was going on behind the scenes of my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant. I'm so proud of it. It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervence has come through on this record. And like you said, bangers.”
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The superstar confirmed the 12 tracks on the album are it for this era. “With ‘Tortured Poets Department’, I was like here’s a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs. This is 12. There’s not a thirteenth, there’s not other ones coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time. I also wanted it to be every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn’t take one out and it be the same album, you couldn’t add one and be… It’s just right.”
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She then continued, “I tend to write lots and lots of music, so it’s a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes, I wanted to do an album that was so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together like a perfect puzzle that these 12 songs for my 12th album, I feel like we achieved that and I’m really happy about that.”
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Check out the tracklist:
- The Fate of Ophelia
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Opalite
- Father Figure
- Eldest Daughter
- Ruin the Friendship
- Actually Romantic
- Wi$h Li$t
- Wood
- CANCELLED!
- Honey
- The Life of a Showgirl featuring Sabrina Carpenter
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The Life of a Showgirl also marks the return of producers Max Martin and Shellback, who worked onTaylor’s Red, 1989, and Reputation. Taylor called them “geniuses” and credited them for hits like "22", "Shake It Off", "Wildest Dreams", and "Blank Space".
As usual, Taylor teased the album before the reveal. On 12 August, Taylor Nation shared 12 images from the Eras Tour on Instagram with the caption, “Thinking about when she said ‘See you next era …’” A countdown appeared on her website for 12.12am Eastern Time on 12 August, turning the site glittering orange.
At 35, Taylor is one of the world’s bestselling musicians, with 200 million records sold globally. Her previous album, 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department, broke Spotify records with 300 million streams in a single day and one billion in just five days.
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She also became the first artist in history to hold the top 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 and the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year four times.
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