Taylor Swift has revealed the release date, cover artwork, and tracklist for her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. Her 12th full-length will be released on Friday, October 3rd.
The cover artwork was photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
Spanning 12 songs in total, the album includes titles like “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Ruin the Friendship,” “Wi$h Li$t,” and “Cancelled!”. The album concludes with the title track, which features Sabrina Carpenter.
In a change of pace from her recent string of releases primarily crafted with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, Swift has reunited with Max Martin and Shellback, who she previously collaborated with on reputation and 1989. Swift recorded the album in Sweden amid the European leg of her recently completed “The Eras Tour.
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Swift previewed the album during her appearance on the New Heights podcast on Wednesday: “This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during [The Eras Tour], which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant. 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.”
“There’s no other songs coming — like with The Torture Poets Department, here’s a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in the two or three years. This is 12 [songs]. There’s not a 13th. There’s not a fourteenth. There’s not other ones coming,” Swift added. “This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time. Every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, you know, and you couldn’t take one out and it’d be the same album, you couldn’t add one and it’d be it’s just right. And 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 love to write lots and lots of music. So it’s a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes like 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 it just I feel like we achieved that and I’m really happy about that.”
Pre-orders for The Life of a Showgirl, including several variant versions, are now ongoing via Swift’s website.
The Life of a Showgirl marks Swift’s follow-up to The Tortured Poets Department, which was released in April 2024. It’s also her first album since wrapping up her record-breaking “The Eras Tour,” and her first release since regaining full control of the master recordings for her first six studio albums.
The Life of a Showgirl Tracklist:
01. The Fate of Ophelia
02. Elizabeth Taylor
03. Opolite
04. Father Figure
005. Oldest Daughter
06. Ruin the Friendship
07. Actually Romantic
08. Wi$h Li$t
09. Wood
10. Cancelled!
11. Honey
12. The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter)
