Taylor Swift Speaks About ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Vinyl & CD Packaging: ‘I Hope the Fans Are Happy’

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"We wanted this medium to consciousness truly luxurious," says Swift, who's launched pre-orders for assorted limited-quantity iterations, with antithetic medium covers and extras, for 'Showgirl.'

Seated successful beforehand of a backdrop reminiscent of a floral watercolor coating — possibly a notation to creator John Everett Millais’ Hamlet-inspired enactment “Ophelia,” which fans theorize influenced “The Fate of Ophelia” singer’s airs connected her caller medium screen — Taylor Swift talks astir the ocular creation of upcoming medium The Life of a Showgirl successful a promo clip released by her Taylor Nation squad connected Saturday (Sept. 20).

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“The photograph sprout that we did with Mert and Marcus [Mert Alaş and Marcus Piggott] was truthful bonzer and I was truthful blessed with it that I conscionable wanted the fans to person arsenic galore images from this benignant of world, this medium era, arsenic possible,” Swift says successful the little video. “And truthful I truly spent a batch of clip figuring retired however I could marque the champion vinyl merchandise and the champion packaging and the champion CD acquisition that they could have.”

As Swift explains successful the clip: “The CDs each person photograph cards successful them. The vinyls, they each person a poem wrong of them, a unsocial poem. They’ve got much images than we ever planned to enactment successful there.”

The Life of a Showgirl has truthful acold been made disposable for pre-order successful its modular format connected CD and vinyl, and successful assorted peculiar editions — with antithetic covers and extras, similar the aforementioned photograph cards — successful constricted (now sold-out) quantities connected Swift’s official webstore. Target besides released an exclusive variation CD pre-order.

Swift adds of the medium art, “We chose this truly high-gloss decorativeness which I’ve ne'er done before, and I deliberation it looks truthful cool. We wanted this medium to consciousness truly luxurious and benignant of arsenic a motion to the luxury that a showgirl puts connected erstwhile she’s connected stage. Meanwhile, successful the quick-change country she’s similar [out of breath, breathing heavily] … Maybe that’s conscionable me, I don’t know.”

“It’s each conscionable thing I’m truly arrogant of,” says Swift, who connected Friday announced her caller task is besides headed to prime movie theaters with The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, a premiere acquisition that volition debut her euphony video for medium opener “The Fate of Ophelia,” behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot, lyric videos and idiosyncratic reflections connected the collection’s 12 tracks. “It took a batch of clip to enactment together, a batch of concentration, a batch of organization, but hopefully it pays off. I anticipation the fans are happy.”

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