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Taylor Swift's New Album The Life Of A Showgirl: Here's Everything We Know

Taylor Swift's New Album The Life Of A Showgirl: Here's Everything We Know
Taylor Swift on stage in Vancouver last yearIt’s all hands on deck for Swifties right now as Taylor Swift has officially announced her new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, is coming in less than two months. The pop icon shared the news this week during a much-hyped appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, which he hosts with his brother Jason.While Taylor’s fans are certainly used to the Grammy-winner’s new albums being shrouded in secrecy, the Blank Space singer has actually already started sharing a lot of exciting details about what fans can expect from TS12.If you’re already struggling to contain your excitement about a brand new album that’s definitely about to become your whole personality, here’s everything we know so far…First of all, what’s happened in Taylor Swift’s life since she released her last album, The Tortured Poets Department?As we all know, Taylor Swift is a very busy woman.When she dropped The Tortured Poets Department in April 2024 (followed by a deluxe edition with 15 more songs just two hours later), she was already deep in the throes of her gargantuan Eras world tour, having performed all over North America in 2023.Thankfully, for us patient fans in the UK and Europe who had to wait over a year after the tour started to see Taylor in action, we got to enjoy a whole new segment of the show dedicated to The Tortured Poets Department by the time she arrived on our shores.She finally bid farewell to the Eras chapter of her life with the tour’s final show in Vancouver, Canada, in December 2024, concluding a 149-show run across 51 cities.Taylor Swift during the final night of her Eras Tour towards the end of last yearSince then, another huge development in Taylor’s world is that she bought back the rights to her first six albums following a long and public battle to gain ownership of her music.As you may well know, it all started back in 2019 when music manager Scooter Braun bought her former record label Big Machine, meaning her first six albums – Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation – all belonged to him.That’s why she’s re-recorded four of her albums, which have become known as “Taylor’s Versions” and all arrived with bonus “vault” tracks. However her self-titled debut and Reputation have not yet been released, with the Grammy-winner telling fans that “those two albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right”.In her personal life, she seems to have fallen deeper in love with her Kansas City Chiefs NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce. He even made his Eras tour debut with a surprise appearance during one of the Wembley shows, before they went Instagram official with a royal selfie posing alongside Prince William and his children George and Charlotte.Travis Kelce shares a kiss with Taylor Swift at the 2024 Super BowlTaylor also celebrated her 35th birthday party in December with an exclusive Eras Tour-themed party.Since then, she’s been a little bit quieter and seemingly just enjoying life with Kelce during his offseason. As we all know by now, Taylor is renowned for her confessional songwriting, so we can expect more than a few nods to these huge life developments as potential themes on the new release.What will Taylor Swift’s new album The Life Of A Showgirl be about?While Taylor is known for dropping cryptic clues and Easter eggs when it comes to her new albums, she has actually already shed quite a bit of light on what to expect from this one.During her New Heights interview, Taylor spoke about how she somehow managed to make the album between shows on the Eras tour, revealing that she would fly to Sweden, where work on the record was completed, during her days off.As Travis rightly noted, Taylor was “living the life of a showgirl” during this time, which is how she landed on the title.She added that the album is about “what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant.”Taylor added: “It 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. And like, as you said, bangers.”The Kansas City Chiefs tight end added that the songs were “a lot more upbeat, and it’s a lot more fun pop, excitement. I think it’s a complete 180 from a lot of the songs on Tortured Poets.”Are there any featured artists on The Life Of A Showgirl? There’s only one feature on the album, and it’s a biggie. Joining her on the title track is none other than her Eras tour opening act Sabrina Carpenter.Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter at this year's GrammysAdditionally, while these aren’t technically features, this album marks a pretty huge reunion between Taylor and Swedish pop producers Max Martin and Shellback, who worked with the pop star on some of her biggest hits, like Blank Space, Style and Shake It Off.Taylor told New Heights how she had never before made an album with just the three of them and no other collaborators. Around seven or eight years since they last worked with each other, Taylor said getting the team back together for new music felt like “catching lightning in a bottle”.However, that does also mean that it seems like Taylor’s streak with her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff has come to an end. And judging by his wife Margaret Qualley’s subdued reaction to being asked about the new record during an interview with the Today show, it seems plausible that he may not have even been aware there was new music on the horizon.Therefore, The Life Of A Showgirl looks set to be Taylor’s first album since 2012’s Red that will not feature the Bleachers frontman.Will Taylor Swift release a deluxe edition of The Life Of A Showgirl?You never know with Taylor what surprises she might pull, but it does seem that The Life Of A Showgirl is going to be 12 curated tracks and nothing more.“There’s no other songs coming,” she insisted on the podcast. “With The Tortured Poets Department, I was like, ‘Here’s a data dump of everything I thought and felt in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs.’ This is 12. There’s not a 13th, there’s not other ones coming.”We’ll believe it when we see it….View this post on InstagramA post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)Do we know the tracklisting?Yes! Taylor was generous enough to share the whole tracklist right away, which is…The Fate Of OpheliaElizabeth TaylorOpaliteFather FigureEldest DaughterRuin the FriendshipActually RomanticWi$h Li$tWoodCANCELLED!HoneyThe Life Of A Showgirl (featuring Sabrina Carpenter)Has Taylor Swift planted any extra Easter eggs about The Life Of A Showgirl?It wouldn’t be a Taylor Swift album rollout if there weren’t a few Easter eggs left for fans to uncover along the way. While more casual listeners might find they get a little fatigued by it all, the singer opened up about her reasoning around why she still plants clues while speaking on the New Heights podcast.“People are like, ‘the Easter eggs thing is getting a little Zodiac Killer at this point.’ I’m like, as long as they like it, you know?” she said.And like it, they do. Now that fans have seen the album artwork and the record’s bright orange colour scheme, they’re starting to reflect on hints left throughout the Eras tour.Notably, at the final Eras show, Taylor left the stage through an orange door – something she only did [email protected] infamous #orangedoor at the #erastour#ts12#taylorswift#swifties what’s your theory? 🎇🧡❤️🔥🧡🎇 @Taylor Nation @Taylor Swift ♬ original sound - sj“That actually was an Easter egg. Basically, the reason why I chose to exit that way is because I kind of wanted to give a little subliminal hint to the fans that I may be leaving the Eras Tour era, but I was also entering a new era,” she explained. Meanwhile, the number 12 is also significant with this release. Not only is it the star’s 12th album, but she announced it was coming on 12 August with a countdown to 12:12am appearing on her website.The news also came 12 weeks after the announcement that she’d bought her entire catalogue back, after which she told fans she was “Thiiiiiiiiiiiis close” to releasing new music – with the letter “i” written, of course, 12 times.Fans have since spotted that the Fortnight singer left another clue when she stood in front of the A12 seating section in a TikTok from the Eras tour, hinting at the announcement date.Then there’s the I Can Do It With a Broken Heart music video, which stitches together highlights from the Eras tour. If you look carefully, one segment shows her backing dancers practising with orange fans. The live choreography during the Eras Tour for the same song was also showgirl-themed.Finally, Taylor left some concertgoers surprised when she burned down her iconic Lover house, which represents each of her albums, during the Eras Tour.As there was no space left for another room, fans suspected this could be signalling the next chapter, which checks out with her heart on fire emoji she’s been using to promote the album.WAIT. THE BURNT LOVER HOUSE, THE HEART FIRE, WHAT IF THIS IS WHERE TS12 BEGINS pic.twitter.com/65HxN2Pjgo— 🪩 eME!rald ❤️🔥 (@hushmirrorball) August 11, 2025And finally – when is Taylor Swift actually releasing her new album The Life Of A Showgirl?The Life Of A Showgirl is out on 3 October, which also happens to be the same week as Travis’ birthday.Cardi B spoke for pretty much the whole music industry when she expressed a sigh of relief that it didn’t clash with her long-awaited second album Am I the Drama?, which is out on the very safe date of 19 September.https://t.co/UBqyqhMjcJpic.twitter.com/ppAIABgDZz— Cardi B (@iamcardib) August 13, 2025Thoughts and prayers for any other artists who have albums scheduled to come out the same day as Taylor. READ MORE:Taylor Swift Breaks A Record Previously Held By Trump, And She Did It In Just An HourTaylor Swift's New Album Announcement Has Already Inspired Our New Favourite MemeScooter Braun Admits 'Arrogance' Led To His Very Public Beef With Taylor Swift

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