NEW YORK (AP) — Lights, digital camera, motion. Taylor Swift’s twelfth studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” arrives Friday. Are you prepared for it?
Swift introduced her newest period again in August, when she started teasing the discharge.
This is all the pieces you could know forward of its drop date: learn how to stream, which variants exist, and naturally, how the album got here collectively. Benefit from the present!
Tips on how to hearken to Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl”
“The Life of a Showgirl” will likely be accessible to stream on all main platforms, together with Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
Followers can pre-save the album forward of its launch on Oct. 3. Pre-saving ensures the brand new music mechanically seems in a fan’s library the second it’s accessible. It is usually a manner for an artist to advertise streams forward of the drop date.
On Monday, Spotify introduced that Swift’s album surpassed 5 million pre-saves on their platform to develop into essentially the most pre-saved album in its historical past. The earlier title holder? Her 2024 album “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Along with the various streaming choices, there can even be a digital-download variant of “The Life of a Showgirl” accessible by way of iTunes, that includes a brand new cowl picture and an almost three-minute “exclusive video from Taylor herself detailing inspirations behind the album” labeled “A Look Behind the Curtain.”
What bodily variants are there?
Goal is as soon as once more a significant companion with Swift. Their shops will carry three CD variants, titled as “It’s Frightening,” “It’s Rapturous” and “It’s Beautiful” editions. There’s additionally an unique vinyl launch, “The Crowd Is Your King” version in “summertime spritz pink shimmer vinyl.” Many Goal places will stay open previous midnight on the day of launch for superfans to choose up in actual time.
There are a variety of different vinyl variants as nicely: “The Tiny Bubble in Champagne Collection,” which options two vinyl variants described as “under bright lights pearlescent vinyl” and “red lipstick & lace transparent vinyl.”
There’s additionally “The Baby That’s Show Business Collection,” in two colorways: “lovely bouquet golden vinyl” and “lakeside beach blue sparkle vinyl.”
Then there’s “The Shiny Bug Collection” in “violet shimmer marbled vinyl” and “wintergreen and onyx marbled vinyl.”
And naturally, there’s the usual LP and cassette, in “sweat and vanilla perfume Portofino orange vinyl.”
Art work varies all through.
What do we all know concerning the album to this point?
Swift partially introduced her 12-track new album “The Life of a Showgirl” on the “New Heights” podcast hosted by Travis Kelce — Swift’s fiance and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish — and his brother, Jason Kelce, the previous Philadelphia Eagles middle.
Within the full episode, Swift revealed she labored on the album in Sweden whereas she was on the “Eras Tour” — flying between dates to document, actually embodying the album’s title, “The Life of a Showgirl.” The complete album was accomplished with producers Max Martin and Shellback, who Swift beforehand collaborated with on 2012’s “Red,” 2014’s “1989” and 2017’s “Reputation.” Her frequent producing companion Jack Antonoff was not talked about.
She described the discharge as filled with “bangers.” “I care about this record more than I can even overstate,” she mentioned, agreeing with Travis Kelce when he described the discharge as “a lot more upbeat” than 2024’s “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Throughout the album, there is just one characteristic listed: the title monitor, “The Life of a Showgirl,” will embrace Sabrina Carpenter.
