Taylor Swift announces 12th studio album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl'
Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12am US time (2:12pm AEST) on Tuesday. No release date was announced, but her site said vinyl editions of the album would ship before October 13.
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