Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ set for October release date
• Debuts album cover, Sabrina Carpenter feature
The 14-time Grammy winner announced 'The Life of a Showgirl' album early Tuesday, after a mysterious countdown clock appeared on her website.
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Taylor Swift has revealed her new album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ will be released on 3 October and unveiled the cover art and a tracklist that features Sabrina Carpenter on the title song.
Swift made the big reveal on social media and during the Wednesday episode of the ‘New Heights Show’ podcast, co-hosted by her Super Bowl champion beau, Travis Kelce, and his brother Jason.
Her website is offering variants, including ‘The Life of a Showgirl: Sweat and Vanilla Perfume’ in glitter orange vinyl, a deluxe CD and a cassette. While the podcast aired, she debuted the deluxe album covers on her site.
In a post on Instagram, she confirmed that she produced the album with Max Martin and Shellback. “And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3,” she wrote.
Infectious joy
On the podcast, she said ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ was inspired by the joy of being on the Eras Tour.
“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,” she said. “It just comes from 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 you said, bangers.”
Swift also confirmed that the 12 songs on the tracklist will be it for this era; in other words, “there’s no other songs coming.”
“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,” she said. “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 that every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn’t take one out and have it be the same album, you couldn’t add one and be... It’s just right.”
She continued: “That focus and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time.
“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.”
Leading up to the release of the podcast, fans noticed a countdown clock on her official website that was counting down to 7 p.m. ET. Her landing page featured an image of a door that was featured during the Eras Tour, and as the hours ticked by, four different boxes gradually appeared in different colours, with locks on them. Some fans surmised that each box could represent a different-coloured vinyl variant.
Taylor Swift has revealed her new album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ will be released on 3 October and unveiled the cover art and a tracklist that features Sabrina Carpenter on the title song.
Swift made the big reveal on social media and during the Wednesday episode of the ‘New Heights Show’ podcast, co-hosted by her Super Bowl champion beau, Travis Kelce, and his brother Jason.
Her website is offering variants, including ‘The Life of a Showgirl: Sweat and Vanilla Perfume’ in glitter orange vinyl, a deluxe CD and a cassette. While the podcast aired, she debuted the deluxe album covers on her site.
In a post on Instagram, she confirmed that she produced the album with Max Martin and Shellback. “And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3,” she wrote.
Infectious joy
On the podcast, she said ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ was inspired by the joy of being on the Eras Tour.
“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,” she said. “It just comes from 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 you said, bangers.”
Swift also confirmed that the 12 songs on the tracklist will be it for this era; in other words, “there’s no other songs coming.”
“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,” she said. “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 that every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn’t take one out and have it be the same album, you couldn’t add one and be... It’s just right.”
She continued: “That focus and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time.
“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.”
Leading up to the release of the podcast, fans noticed a countdown clock on her official website that was counting down to 7 p.m. ET. Her landing page featured an image of a door that was featured during the Eras Tour, and as the hours ticked by, four different boxes gradually appeared in different colours, with locks on them. Some fans surmised that each box could represent a different-coloured vinyl variant.
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