Taylor Swift to launch ‘The Lifetime of a Showgirl’ film in theaters, that includes new music video and behind-the-scenes footage

Taylor Swift’s new album isn’t merely a present — it’s additionally a film. The artist, who’s releasing her new album The Lifetime of a Showgirl on Oct. 3, revealed on Friday to announce she’s bringing her newest work to theaters for what she’s calling “The Official Launch Celebration of a Showgirl.”

“You’ll get to see the unique world premiere of the music video for my new single ‘The Destiny of Ophelia’, together with by no means earlier than seen behind-the-scenes footage of how we made it, reduce by reduce explanations of what impressed this music, and the model new lyric movies from my new album The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” the newly engaged Swift wrote on Instagram together with a brand new orange photograph from her album.

The brand new movie will solely be in theaters from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, Swift mentioned.

“Appears prefer it’s time to brush off that Eras Tour outfit or orange cardigan… Tickets are on sale now. Dancing is non-obligatory however very a lot inspired,” the singer wrote. The “orange cardigan” refers to a brand new model of her iconic merch, which dropped earlier this week.

This isn’t the primary time that Swift has taken her life’s work to the films. In 2023, the star launched a movie model of the Eras tour, which turned essentially the most profitable live performance movie of all time.

Followers have lengthy puzzled if there could be a cinematic aspect to Swift’s upcoming album, because the artist has ventured into directing, most notably with the brief movie model of her “All Too Nicely (10 Minute Model)” music video and a film within the works from Searchlight Photos, which she’ll helm from her personal script.

“I all the time needed to inform tales. I’ve all the time written tales, poetry, songs. And I believe this simply grew out of that storytelling. And the extra I did it, the extra I liked it,” Swift mentioned of her ardour for steering on Selection’s “Administrators on Administrators” sequence.

Swift has not but launched new music from The Lifetime of a Showgirl, however she has spoken in regards to the upcoming album being a behind-the-curtain take a look at her life on tour. She first appeared on her now fiancé Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights on Aug. 13 to announce the brand new work.

“It appears like form of energetically how my life has felt, and this album is about what was happening behind the scenes in my internal life throughout this tour, which was so exuberant and electrical and vibrant,” Swift mentioned on the podcast. She re-teamed with producers Max Martin and Shellback on the album, which was recorded whereas she was on tour.

Swift, who has since teased new album art work from The Lifetime of a Showgirl, said that this album would solely be 12 tracks, explaining how “each single tune is on this album for a whole lot of causes.” These songs are “The Destiny of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite,” “Father Determine,” “Eldest Daughter,” “Spoil The Friendship,” “Really Romantic,” “Wi$h Li$t,” “Wooden,” “Cancelled!,” “Honey” and “The Lifetime of a Showgirl (Feat. Sabrina Carpenter).”

This has been a giant 12 months for Swift. On Could 30, she introduced that, after a long-fought battle, she formally owns all of her grasp recordings.