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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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On August 12, 2025, American pop star Taylor Swift announced her twelfth studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl“. She broke the news via her boyfriend Travis Kelce‘s podcast, New Heights.
Speaking about her inspiration for the album and its artwork, which features the 14-time Grammy Award winner lying in a bathtub wearing a jeweled dress, Swift said, “This represents the end of my night. So when I’m on tour, I have the same day every single day … and my day ends with me in a bathtub, not usually in a bedazzled dress. I wanted to…glamorize all the different aspects of how that tour felt. And that’s how that felt to like be at the end of the night when all this has gone down…The reason I wanted to have sort of like an offstage moment as the main album cover is because this album isn’t really about what happened to me on stage. It’s about what I was going through offstage. So I didn’t want to have like, ‘the lights are bright, I’m on the stage’ as the main album cover.” Swift also revealed four bonus editions of the album, each with a different cover.
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Producing the album alongside Swift are Max Martin and Shellback, with whom she previously worked on Reputation, her sixth studio album. The album’s title track will feature a duet with Sabrina Carpenter, who opened for Swift several nights on her groundbreaking Eras Tour.
Swift added that “The Life of a Showgirl” would be a departure from her lyrically heavy eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. “This 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,” she said. “It just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life.”
“The Life of a Showgirl” will feature 12 tracks. It is slated for release on October 3, 2025 and is currently available for pre-order.
