Taylor Swift Is a Frustrated Director In Jokey ‘Life of a Showgirl’ Promo Video: ‘It’s Giving ‘No Girl,’ Not Show Girl’

Taylor Swift knows what excellence requires and is not acrophobic to request it. Even if the 1 she’s insisting connected it from is herself. In a jokey promo video posted connected Monday greeting (Sept. 28) to beforehand the upcoming Target-only The Life of a Showgirl: The Crowd Is Your King “summertime spritz pinkish shimmer” disc owed retired connected Friday (Oct. 3).

Playing the relation of manager — which is not new for the award-winning vocalist — a suit-wearing Swift gives diligent absorption done a pinkish megaphone. “All right, we are inactive rolling, we’re gonna effort again. Okay? We’re elegant, we’re luxurious, we’re successful beforehand of the astir beauteous pinkish vinyl we’ve ever seen,” she says with enthusiasm earlier things crook grim successful the clip captioned, “she’s got 4 days near to rehearse for her large moment… [laughing crying emoji].”

“What is going connected with the posture?” Swift asks with increasing exasperation astatine an unseen model. “It’s giving ‘no girl,’ not showgirl. What are we doing?,” Swift says arsenic the camera spins to a country of the vocalist successful her glittery showgirl screen outfit lasting successful beforehand of a elephantine mentation of the pinkish vinyl. To her director’s consternation, screen exemplary Taylor listlessly tosses handfuls of glitter arsenic manager Swift implores, “Elegance! Charm!… Not that,” arsenic the unsteady exemplary Swift wobbles connected her heels and fails to impress.

“She’s got feline hairsbreadth each implicit her,” the manager seethes. “Is determination a schoolhouse we could precise rapidly nonstop her to?”

Swift announced the latest vinyl variant of her upcoming The Life of a Showgirl medium past week, revealing that the store-exclusive variant volition diagnostic a collectible sleeve, a elephantine double-sided poster, an exclusive poem penned by Swift and peculiar photos erstwhile it drops connected Friday.

Watch the promo video below.