Here are the details of Taylor Swift’s new album The Life Of A Showgirl.
That’s the cover, and here are the 12 songs.
Taylor Swift says the release will only be these 12 songs, and no extra tracks will be released (as she did on her last two albums). The big change for this album is that Swift produced it with Max Martin and Shellback. They assisted Swift with production and co-writing on some of her biggest hits, including those from her album 1989. Taylor says the songs capture the “infectiously joyful, wild, and dramatic energy” of her life during the Eras Tour. She described some of the songs as “bangers” with infectious melodies. Showgirl will be released on October 3rd, 2025.
Update: A “Taylor Swift Movie Theater Event” is being promoted for the same weekend as the Friday Oct. 3rd album release.
Fans will be shown the new video for “The Fate Of Ophelia”, plus behind the scenes of the making of the video, comments on each album track, and the lyric videos of the other eleven songs from the new album. The runtime for the Release Party is about an-hour-and-a-half.
There are actually four variations of the cover, and they were on a very limited run of CD’s sold on her official site.
The pricing of the orange vinyl album is $29.99. The regular CD is $12.99, and the limited Deluxe CD’s are $17.99. (The Deluxe CD’s sold out almost instantly, but were later made available at Target for $14.99 each.)
The songs are all new except for “Father Figure”, which was a 1987 release written and performed by the late George Michael. The difference here is that the song will have new lyrics. Guesses are already being made as to what the songs are about. By the way, “Ruin The Friendship” might not be about Blake Lively’s legal troubles, because the song may have been recorded prior to the problems. Just one guest star was announced…Sabrina Carpenter (who opened for Swift on the Eras Tour and who since has become very popular) is featured on the final song & title track, “The Life Of A Showgirl”.
Above are some of the extra photos provided with the release information. Taylor Swift amazingly recorded the album while she was in the middle of the European portion of the Eras Tour in 2024. Between shows, she would use her days off to fly to Sweden to work with Martin and Shellback. She said that although she was physically exhausted, she was “mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating.”
Extra: Special versions with alternate covers and colored vinyl keep appearing and quickly selling out on the official Taylor Swift website. Here’s an example.
It’ll be interesting to see how many vinyl copies of the album will be sold the first week (these are pre-orders). If she can sell over a million copies, it would be a new record (from when vinyl albums began their resurgence in 1991).
Extra: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. It was announced August 26th, 2025. Apparently the engagement actually took place a couple weeks earlier, and family members were informed.
It was a Pop/Rock moment. Travis decided to Pop the question, and Taylor got the Rock!