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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nEverything you need to know about Taylor Swift’s new album<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift announced her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl\u201d in a \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast promo video and here\u2019s what we know about her 12th era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Taylor Swift<\/a> is in her podcaster era.<\/p>\n The pop superstar made her highly anticipated debut as a guest on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast<\/a> on Wednesday, Aug. 13. As the episode began, her website updated with an album cover and release date of Oct. 3.<\/p>\n “The Life of a Showgirl” cover shows Swift underwater in a bedazzled top. Four variants are available for preorder. They are “Sweat and Vanilla Perfume,” “It’s Frightening,” “It’s Rapturous” and “It’s Beautiful.”<\/p>\n Swift said she started recording the album when she was touring in Europe. She would fly to Sweden to record. The album is produced by Swedish producers Max Martin and Shellback, along with Swift.<\/p>\n There are 12 tracks on the album, including the title track featuring Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>. Another song is called “Cancelled!”<\/p>\n “That’s a banger,” Travis Kelce said. He later clarified that there are 12 bangers on the album. The other tracks are: “The Fate of Ophelia” (a nod to Hamlet), “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite,” “Father Figure,” “Eldest Daughter,” “Ruin the Friendship,” “Actually Romantic,” “Wi$h Li$T,” “Wood,” “CANCELLED!” and “Honey.”<\/p>\n Swift said she hadn’t worked with Martin in about eight years.<\/p>\n “It felt like catching lightning in a bottle,” Swift said about working with the producer again.<\/p>\n Taylor admitted no one else worked with the three of them. Swift said she talked to Martin the same weekend she dedicated an Eras Tour medley to him in Stolkholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n “I was talking to him and I was like, ‘I just feel like we could just knock it out of the park if we went back in and we did this all in Sweden and it was just us three.”<\/p>\n Travis Kelce’s review: fun, pop, upbeat.<\/p>\n “This album is going to make you dance,” he said.<\/p>\n Swift insisted the album will only have 12 tracks, whereas her most recent albums “The Tortured Poets Department” and “Midnights” have landed with numerous additional tracks.<\/p>\n She said the theme of the album is everything that happened behind the Eras Tour curtain. The artwork represents the end of her night.<\/p>\n “My day ends with me in a bathtub, not usually in a bedazzled dress,” she said. “I wanted to glamorize all the different aspects of how that tour felt.”<\/p>\n Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason Kelce<\/a>, have hosted the “New Heights” podcast since 2022, but this was the first time Swift has been a guest on the show since she and Travis began their highly publicized romance in 2023.<\/p>\n Swift chose Kelce’s podcast as a platform to reveal her next album<\/a> and usher in a new era, rather than do so on her own social media channels or at a live event. The singer has been strategic about when and where she reveals new music in the past, and she announced her most <\/a>recent alb<\/a>um<\/a>, “The Tortured Poets Department,” on stage at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Before that, Swift revealed her 2022 album “Midnights” in a speech<\/a> at the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n