It’s been a very long time coming…and now, now we have a title for Taylor Swift’s twelfth album. The brand new work, titled The Lifetime of a Showgirl, was introduced through a video clip from the upcoming Wednesday, Aug. 13 episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast New Heights. It was shared on Instagram at 12:12 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday, Aug. 12 as a nod to Swift’s twelfth album.
Within the clip, Swift exhibits the brothers a briefcase, which is mint inexperienced with the letters T.S. on it.
“That is my model new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl,” the singer declared.
The album cowl has not but been revealed, and Swift’s web site exhibits solely a blurred orange and inexperienced picture with a lock on the duvet. Nonetheless, followers can already pre-order the vinyl, cassette and CD editions.
To this point, there isn’t a tracklist for the album, so followers must keep tuned. There may be additionally no launch date: although the web site states pre-orders will ship Oct. 13, it additionally stated that an official date shall be shared at a later date.
Eagle-eyed Swifties first observed 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 could 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 shiny orange background, which followers caught on to instantly.
The twelfth album marks Swift’s first new music launch since saying that she formally owns her first six albums after a prolonged battle over her grasp recordings. The artist started a re-recording challenge after she realized in 2019 that her masters have been offered to Scooter Braun towards her will. Swift went on to launch enormously profitable “Taylor’s Variations” of her 2008 album Fearless, her 2010 album Converse Now, her 2012 album Crimson, and her 2014 album 1989, and now owns the unique works as properly.
“To say that is my best 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 in the future buy my music outright with no strings hooked up, no partnership, with full autonomy.”
Whereas followers have been initially anticipating re-recordings 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.
