Taylor Swift unveils 12th studio album 'The Life of a Showgirl' on Travis Kelce's podcast

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Taylor Swift has announced that her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, will be released on October 3.
The announcement was made during Swift's appearance on her boyfriend, NFL star Travis Kelce's, podcast on Wednesday.
Unveiling a copy of the new record, the singer said: "This is my new album, The Life Of A Showgirl. It's something I was working on while I was in Europe on the Eras tour."
The album will include 12 tracks, with Sabrina Carpenter featuring on the title song and as the only collaboration.
Carpenter said in a post on Instagram: "The Life Of A Showgirl, October 3, I know someone who's freaking out and it's me."
Fans have theorised that Swift's 12th album would soon be on the way. The singer is known as a prolific songwriter who drops clues in unlikely places for her fans, known as 'easter eggs'.
On Monday, Taylor Nation, an official branch of the pop superstar's marketing team, posted a slideshow on social media platform TikTok, featuring 12 images with the caption 'Thinking about when she said 'See you next era…'' Swift is seen wearing orange in every image.
The album artwork, which features the singer submerged in water, continues the colour scheme of orange and mint green.
Swift recorded the album in Europe while she was on her sold-out "Eras tour", flying between dates to record.
On Kelce's podcast, the singer said, "I just love music. I would be playing shows three nights in a row, then I would have three days off.""I would fly to Sweden. Working on this, I was physically exhausted at this point in the tour, but I was so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating."
On the podcast, Travis Kelce said the fact that Swift recorded the album while simultaneously travelling the world was "still blowing my mind".
Swift described the album as "a lot more upbeat" than her previous "The Tortured Poets Department", which she released during the Eras Tour in 2023.
"There aren't other ones coming," she clarified, likely referencing her announcement just two hours after The Tortured Poets Department was released, that it was in fact a double album.
The latest release is 12 tracks - that's it.
The albums theme? "Everything that was going on behind the curtain," she said.
"It feels kind of, energetically, how my life has felt."
The Life Of A Showgirl is Swift's first album since she announced she had bought back the rights to her first six albums, ending a long-running battle over the ownership of her music.
She also announced she had purchased the rights to all of her concert films, music videos, album art and photography, as well as unreleased songs, giving her control over her entire catalogue for the first time.
The saga began in 2019 when the singer announced plans to re-record all her songs following a dispute with retired talent manager Scooter Braun after he acquired the recordings of her first six studio albums when he bought her former label.
Though the masters changed hands again after a deal with Shamrock Capital, Swift continued with a bid to regain ownership of the music by creating new versions of the songs.
She has been re-recording most of her albums, re-releasing them as 'Taylor's Version'. She is yet to release her debut self-titled album or 2017's Reputation.
Speaking about acquiring her master recordings, Swift said: "My music has been sold a few times. The first time it was sold, it really ripped my heart out of my chest.""I started basically defiantly re-recording my music because I wanted to own it. And this was the only way I thought it was ever going to happen.""Re-recording my music, it was so exciting to get to have that opportunity. But I still thought about not owning my music every day."After the Eras tour, I had a meeting with my team and we decided this might be a good time to approach the current owners of it."Swift then became emotional as she described the phone call from her mother afterwards to tell her "you got your music".
Her 12th studio album comes after Swift's billion-dollar, record-breaking Eras Tour ended in December.She made history last summer when the tour became the highest-grossing of all time, and Swift became the first solo artist to perform at London's Wembley Stadium eight times on a single tour.Swift has had four UK number one singles and 13 UK number one albums. Some of her best-known songs include Love Story, Shake It Off and 22.
'The Life of a Showgirl' tracklist
1. The Fate of Ophelia
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Opalite
4. Father Figure
5. Eldest Daughter
6. Ruin the Friendship
7. Actually Romantic
8. Wi$h Li$t
9. Wood
10. Cancelled!
11. Honey
12. The Life of a Showgirl (featuring Sabrina Carpenter)