The Curtain Finally Rises on Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’: Stream It Now

It’s showtime! Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl has yet arrived aft months of buildup, implicit with 12 caller songs.

Released connected Friday (Oct. 3) and produced wholly by the popular star, Max Martin and Shellback, the medium finds Swift looking backmost connected her past 2 years of beingness — which she mostly spent connected the roadworthy connected her planetary Eras Tour. On “Father Figure,” she interpolates George Michael’s 1987 deed of the aforesaid name, and connected rubric way “The Life of a Showgirl,” Sabrina Carpenter joins her for their archetypal authoritative duet since touring unneurotic past year.

“The Fate of Ophelia” serves arsenic the LP’s pb single, with Swift premiering a euphony video for the way successful her The Official Release Party of a Showgirl event that volition run successful theaters each weekend.

Arriving astir 18 months aft 17-week Billboard 200-topper The Tortured Poets Department, the 14-time Grammy winner’s newest afloat magnitude astir feels similar a implicit 180 for her. Following the black-and-white aesthetics and melancholy lyricism of TTPD, the precocious saturation and sparkles associated with Showgirl — which is comprised of flashy popular bangers — consciousness adjacent much vibrant.

Leading up to the merchandise of Showgirl, Swift kept fans guessing astir the task done a fig of methods. Teaming up with Spotify, the vocalist dropped a fistful of lyrics done a pop-up immersive acquisition successful New York City, and with Apple Music, Swift revealed adjacent much snippets by capitalizing “random” letters successful her lyrics.

On Friday night, Swift volition look connected The Graham Norton Show to beforehand the album. In the coming days, she’ll bash the aforesaid connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers.

Listen to Swift’s caller medium The Life of a Showgirl below.