Taylor Swift has made a uncommon media look on New Heights, the podcast hosted by NFL gamers Travis and Jason Kelce. At 12:12 a.m. Jap Daylight Time on Tuesday, April 12, she introduced her new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, in a clip from the episode. Throughout its premiere tonight (Wednesday, August 13), she revealed the album’s cowl artwork, launch date, and tracklist, which features a visitor look from Sabrina Carpenter on the title observe. Examine these out and watch the episode under.
“And, child, that’s present enterprise for you. New album The Lifetime of a Showgirl. Out October 3,” Swift wrote on social media. Recorded through the Eras Tour, her twelfth studio album will comply with final yr’s The Tortured Poets Division and its prolonged version, The Anthology. Swift produced the file alongside Max Martin and Shellback, the Swedish songwriting workforce behind a few of her largest hits together with “22,” “Clean Area,” and “I Knew You Had been Bother.” “The three of us have made a few of my favourite songs that I’ve ever carried out earlier than,” she informed the Kelce brothers.
“Once I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the present,” Swift added, “and I used to be speaking to him, and I used to be identical to, ‘I really feel like we might knock it out of the park if we went again in.’” She confirmed that The Lifetime of a Showgirl options no producers apart from Martin and Shellback, that means that Jack Antonoff—who performed a outstanding function on each Swift album from 2019’s Lover via The Tortured Poets Division—and the Nationwide’s Aaron Dessner aren’t concerned.
“This album is about what was happening behind the scenes in my interior life throughout this tour, which was so exuberant and electrical and vibrant,” Swift mentioned on the podcast. “It simply comes from like probably the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I used to be in in my life. And in order that effervescence has come via on this file.”
She continued: “With Tortured Poets Division, I used to be like, ‘Right here’s an information dump of the whole lot I believed and felt in two or three years. Right here’s 31 songs.’ That is 12. There’s not a thirteenth, there’s no different ones coming. That is the file I’ve been eager to make for a really very long time…Each single tune is on this album for a whole bunch of causes, you realize, and also you couldn’t take one out, and it’d be the identical album. You couldn’t add one. It’s excellent.”
