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Look what you made her do \u2014 Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Look what you made her do \u2014 Taylor Swift<\/a> has announced her 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d<\/p>\n Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. No release date was announced, but her site said vinyl editions of the album would ship before Oct. 13.<\/p>\n Fans have long theorized that Swift\u2019s 12th album would soon arrive. On Monday, Taylor Nation \u2014 an official branch of the pop superstar\u2019s marketing team \u2014 posted a TikTok slideshow of 12 images with the caption \u201cThinking about when she said \u2018See you next era\u2026\u2019\u201d Swift is seen wearing orange in every image.<\/p>\n A special limited vinyl edition of the album will be released in \u201cPortofino orange glitter,\u201d according to a preorder page on her site. A special cassette edition is also available for preorder.<\/p>\n Sensing a pattern, eagle-eyed fans noticed that 12 minutes before Monday\u2019s Taylor Nation post, the popular \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast<\/a> posted a tease for Wednesday. The show, hosted by Swift\u2019s boyfriend<\/a> and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce<\/a> alongside his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, posted an orange image on social media with a mysterious silhouette that many believed to be Swift.<\/p>\n The podcast later announced that Swift would indeed appear on \u201cNew Heights\u201d and a teaser video posted about her appearance showed her pulling the album from a briefcase. The actual album artwork, just as it is on her website, is blurred.<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s episode of the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast will premiere at 7 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. It will be available to stream in full on YouTube. Fans who\u2019d prefer to listen to the show, instead, can do so via most podcast streaming platforms: Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audible, Spotify and Wondery among them.<\/p>\n Episodes typically run around one hour to two in duration.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d follows last year\u2019s \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department,\u201d<\/a> announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during her record-breaking tour<\/a>, which raked in over $2.2 billion across two years and five continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.<\/p>\n The album is also Swift\u2019s first release since she regained control over her entire body of work. In May, the pop star said she purchased her catalog of recordings \u2014 originally released through Big Machine Records \u2014<\/a> from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount paid.<\/p>\n In recent years, Swift had been re-recording and releasing her first six albums in an attempt to regain control of her music. The project was instigated by music executive Scooter Braun\u2019s<\/a> purchase and sale of her early catalog. Previous \u201cTaylor\u2019s Version\u201d releases<\/a> have been more than conventional re-recordings, arriving with new \u201cfrom the vault\u201d music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.<\/p>\n So far, there have been four re-recorded albums, beginning with \u201cFearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d<\/a> and \u201cRed (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d<\/a> in 2021. All four have been massive commercial and cultural successes, each debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s last re-recording, \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version),\u201d<\/a> arrived in October 2023, just four months after the release of \u201cSpeak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version).\u201d<\/a> That was the same year Swift claimed the record for the woman with the most No. 1 albums in history.<\/a><\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The story has been updated to correct that Scooter Braun is no longer CEO of Hybe America, He serves on its board of directors and as a senior adviser.<\/p>\n Copyright \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source wtop.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Look what you made her do \u2014 Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Look what you made her do \u2014 Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl.\u201d Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1957037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[29662,318360,23084,343132],"class_list":["post-1957036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-new-album","tag-studio-album","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Taylor-Swift-announces-12th-studio-album-\u2018The-Life-of-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to watch Taylor Swift on the \u2018New Heights\u2019 podcast<\/h2>\n
The road to \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019<\/h2>\n
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