It’s been a very long time coming … and now we’ve got a title for Taylor Swift’s twelfth album. The brand new work, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, was introduced on a video clip from the Wednesday, Aug. 13, episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast, New Heights. It was shared on Instagram at 12:12 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 12, as a nod to Swift’s twelfth album.
Within the clip, Swift exhibits the brothers a file holder, which is mint inexperienced with the initials T.S. on it.
“That is my brand-new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” the singer declares, taking out the vinyl, the quilt of which is blurred. Swift’s web site additionally is not giving freely the quilt artwork, displaying solely a blurred orange and inexperienced picture with a lock on it. Followers are capable of preorder the vinyl, cassette and CD editions of the brand new album on the web site.
Swift has not revealed a observe record or perhaps a launch date for the album. Her web site states that pre-orders will ship out on Oct. 13, however that this isn’t an official drop date for the brand new work.
Whereas followers should wait to be taught extra about The Lifetime of a Showgirl, the music icon is hitting the bottom working on the album rollout. Billboards in Nashville and New York (two locations Swift has referred to as dwelling) direct viewers to a Spotify playlist curated by the star titled “And, child, that’s present enterprise for you.”
The playlist comprises 22 songs, all of which had been produced by Max Martin and Shellback, prolific pop music producers who labored with Swift on her albums Purple, 1989 and Status. Followers speculate that the playlist may trace that Swift is reuniting with the crew for The Lifetime of a Showgirl.
In the meantime, others are getting in on the enjoyable surrounding Swift’s upcoming launch. The Empire State Constructing in New York Metropolis was lit up in orange in celebration.
And if you search “Taylor Swift” on Google, orange confetti rains down, and a burning coronary heart icon pops up that claims “And child, that is present enterprise for you.”
Eagle-eyed Swifties first seen one thing was within the works with the Eras Tour icon on Aug. 11, when Taylor Nation — the official platform for all issues Swift — took to social media to share a publish that includes 12 images of Swift, all in the identical shade of orange. The caption of the publish was “Fascinated with when she stated ‘See you subsequent period …’” together with a purple coronary heart surrounded by orange flames.
In the meantime, Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, introduced that Swift can be the shock visitor on his and his brother Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast episode dropping on Wednesday. The brothers initially hinted that Swift could possibly be becoming a member of them in a publish Monday afternoon that featured Travis in Swift merch with a glittery orange background, which followers caught on to instantly.
The twelfth album marks Swift’s first new music launch since she introduced that she formally owns her first six albums after a prolonged battle over her grasp recordings. The artist started a rerecording venture after she realized in 2019 that her masters had been bought to Scooter Braun in opposition to her will. Swift went on to launch enormously profitable “Taylor’s Variations” of her 2008 album, Fearless; her 2010 album, Communicate Now; her 2012 album, Purple; and her 2014 album, 1989, and now owns the unique works as effectively.
“To say that is my biggest dream come true is definitely being fairly reserved about it,” Swift wrote in a letter to followers posted on her web site when she bought her masters. “All I’ve ever wished was the chance to work laborious sufficient to have the ability to someday buy my music outright with no strings connected, no partnership, with full autonomy.”
Whereas followers had been initially anticipating rerecordings of her 2006 self-titled album and her 2017 album, Status, to be amongst her subsequent releases, Swift as a substitute seems to be specializing in making new music.
