{"id":87403,"date":"2025-08-15T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=87403"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:16:06","slug":"taylor-swifts-12th-album-the-life-of-a-showgirl-drops-october-3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/taylor-swifts-12th-album-the-life-of-a-showgirl-drops-october-3-2025\/87403\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s 12th album The Life of a Showgirl drops October 3, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has officially announced her 12th studio album, <em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>, which will be released on October 3, 2025. She shared the news on Instagram on August 13, revealing the album cover, full tracklist, and special edition details. This will be her first full-length album since 2024\u2019s <em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>, which spent 17 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s title track features Sabrina Carpenter, who previously opened for Swift during part of the Eras Tour. Carpenter has spoken about her admiration for Swift, saying they share a mutual respect and that Swift\u2019s music often comes at times she didn\u2019t even realize she needed it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> contains 12 tracks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Fate of Ophelia<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Opalite<\/li>\n<li>Father Figure<\/li>\n<li>Eldest Daughter<\/li>\n<li>Ruin the Friendship<\/li>\n<li>Actually Romantic<\/li>\n<li>Wi$h Li$t<\/li>\n<li>Wood<\/li>\n<li>CANCELLED!<\/li>\n<li>Honey<\/li>\n<li>The Life of a Showgirl (featuring Sabrina Carpenter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Swift is also releasing four special editions of the album\u2014\u2018Sweat and Vanilla Perfume,\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s Frightening,\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s Rapturous,\u2019 and \u2018It\u2019s Beautiful.\u2019 Each edition comes with unique artwork, photo cards, and a collectible charm bracelet in a jewelry box.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <em>New Heights<\/em> podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce, Swift explained that the album was inspired by her experiences on the Eras Tour. She described it as a reflection of her inner life behind the scenes, capturing the vibrant and electric energy of the tour. The singer confirmed that the album is perfectly balanced at 12 songs, with no bonus tracks\u2014she said, \u201cYou couldn\u2019t take one out and it be the same album. You couldn\u2019t add one and it would be the same album. It\u2019s just right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has officially announced her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, which will be released on October\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":87404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-87403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-taylor-swift"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}