It is no longer cruel summer. Taylor Swift officially announced her new album The life of a show girl On August 12th and a day later, she shared further details about the upcoming work – including the cover art, the title list and the publication date – as well as other surprises during Your appearance in Freund Travis Kelces's podcast, New Heights.
The fans noticed that Swift previously had something going on when a cryptic countdown in Swift's “Taylor Nation” story was released in Instagram history. The countdown led to 7 p.m. – if the New heights The podcast episode should fall.
The post showed a bright orange door, the same on the stage behind Swift during the Eras tour and a connection to Swift's websiteThat contained the same picture, the door slowly dropped.
Over the course of four hours, every hour, four squares with locks in the middle appeared next to the door. First there was an orange castle, then pink, then blue and finally white. The fans of eagle eyes noticed that in the middle of every castle in which a key was placed was the same shape as the stage layout on the Eras tour.
When 7 p.m. arrived, Swift's website unveiled the cover of The life of a show girlWith Swift in a sparkling outfit that was made of green water in a pool. The four squares corresponded to deluxe editions of the album. All of them are available until August 16, while the supplies last.
Photo illustration: Yahoo News; Photo: Taylor Swift
Swift is Instagram post Revealed the release date of the new album: October 3.
Swift also provided the followers the title list of the album:
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The producers of the album are Max Martin, Shellback and Swift themselves.
Also at 7 p.m. the drop of Swift's special episode came from New heightsModerated by Swift's friend Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce. Swift discussed the Eras tour and brought her masters and their relationship with the NFL player back in the episode.
Swift also spoke about what inspired the 12 songs that were written on the tour during their time and gave it a look at what went “behind the curtain” in their personal life.
She said that in contrast to her albums midnight And The department for tortured poets, What came with surprising additional songs would only exist the already unveiled 12 tracks on this album. Swift explained that the new work “comes from the most contagious, wild and dramatic place where I was in my life, and so that the sparkling through in this recording”.
She also teased that there is additional photography and a poem on the inside of the album that is unveiled when the plate falls.
Swift added that past albums were lyrically more focused while Show girl Wants to praise “infectious hymns” that have “texts that are just as lively, but crisp and focused and completely intended”.
Taylor Swift joins Travis Kelce on the field after Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills in the AFC championship game in Kansas City, Mon., January 26, 2025. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
Swift's first album reversal came in the form of A teaser for the podcast episode – But the clip, which dropped on social media at 12:12 p.m., held out some important details. It was shown that Swift kept the album, but had disappeared with the cover and only revealed the green-or-colored color scheme.
Swift, which completed her worldwide Eras tour in 2024, has long dropped “Easter eggs” or references to her future work for fans. The life of a show girl Album drop is no exception. A Video posted on social media Before Swift's Miami Performance on October 18, 2024, the artist showed before section A12 – an indication of when her album announcement would arrive. That night she also listed her 1989 Album in Orange and Green – The colors of the Miami Hurricanes, in whose home stadium Swift appeared, and also an indication of the aesthetics of the upcoming album.
Swift was regular covered in orange-green outfits The color scheme of the album may be displayed last year. And one of the larger clues came in The official music video for “I can do it with a broken heart”, the moments of the Eras tour behind the scenes contained. In the video, the dancers rehearse with orange feather fans – a prop that was never used on stage. The Eras Tour performance of “I can use a broken heart” in her “Show Girly” Swift showed -and she even had Kelce connected on stage during her June 23, 2024, show in London for the song.