Taylor Swift introduced Tuesday she’s dropping a brand new album: “The Life of a Showgirl.”
The shock announcement of the Grammy-winner’s twelfth authentic studio album got here in dramatic trend, as a countdown clock on her web site ticked right down to 12:12 a.m. Eastern.
In a video posted on Instagram, giving a sneak peek of Swift’s upcoming look on Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, co-hosted together with his brother Jason Kelce, Swift pulled out a mint inexperienced briefcase along with her initials “TS” written in orange, saying: “This is my brand new album.”
She didn’t say when the album could be launched or some other details about it. Fans should wait just a little longer to see and listen to extra when her much-awaited podcast look on “New Heights” releases Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET.
Behind Swift on the “New Heights” set had been a number of books with orange covers that featured the work of artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marc Chagall and Ruth Asawa, potential influences or references to her new music.
No stranger to together with “Easter eggs” or hidden clues within the lead as much as her releases, Swift set off a frenzy of hypothesis Monday after a carousel of 12 images was posted on her Instagram. “Thinking about when she said ‘See you next era…,’” the caption mentioned.
The shock announcement coincided with a reveal Monday night time that Swift would be part of Travis Kelce, her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs soccer participant, and his brother for an episode of “New Heights” after teasing {that a} “VERY special” visitor was becoming a member of Wednesday’s episode.
The Empire State Building in New York City was illuminated in orange, the colour of Swift’s new album artwork, on Tuesday night time.
A caption on the constructing’s official Instagram account learn, “Onto the next era.”
This is Swift’s first new album since concluding her record-breaking Eras Tour in December. It’s obtainable for pre-order on Swift’s official website in bodily vinyl, cassette and CD format.
The most up-to-date studio album Swift launched was “The Tortured Poets Department,” a 31-song double album that she introduced in 2024 amid the Eras Tour and revamped her set listing halfway via so as to add songs from.
“The Life of a Showgirl” can be her first launch since changing into the proud proprietor of her whole catalog of music, roughly six years after she protested the sale of her grasp recordings by her former file label.
She bought her music “outright with no strings attached, no partnership, full autonomy,” from Shamrock Capital, a non-public fairness firm that had acquired her grasp recordings, she introduced in May.
“To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it,” Swift wrote, including that she was in a position to “buy back” her music from Shamrock following the success of the Eras Tour.
The sale of the grasp recordings of Swift’s first six albums to producer Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in 2019 was contentious, with Swift alleging she was blindsided and never given the chance to purchase her catalog on the time. Braun maintained her staff was conscious of a pending deal prematurely.
It prompted the singer to take again possession of her music in her personal means by pledging to re-record the albums. She went on to launch what she referred to as “Taylor’s Version” albums for “Red,” “Speak Now,” “Fearless” and “1989.” With every “Taylor’s Version” album, she’s included various beforehand unreleased songs she coined “from the vault.”
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