One month ago, in her first foray into podcasting, Taylor Swift announced her upcoming 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, which comes out at midnight ET on Friday. Like her last album, 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department, this record was created during the high imperial throes of the Eras Tour, and it promises to deliver a look at this world-conquering stretch of her life and career. But unlike the floridly verbose Tortured Poets, Swift is pitching The Life of a Showgirl as a ruthlessly edited collection of bangers, produced with help from Max Martin and Shellback, the collaborators with whom she’s created the most big hits. It’s also the first album Swift has written in full since she began seeing her now-fiancé, Travis Kelce. Swift has said that she wanted this album to reflect the behind the scenes of “the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place” in her life, but of course there are plenty of questions about what that will look (and sound) like. So before the album can answer those questions itself, let’s take a stab at a few of them–we’ll make it 12, the same number of tracks Swift has promised she’s cut down this album to.
Published: October 2, 2025 3:34 pm
Source: The Ringer — Read original