On her 12th original album, Taylor Swift, the pop superstar, sounds hungry to embrace her future. “Bangers”, the word Taylor Swift used to describe all her 12 songs on her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.
Swift’s last album was The Tortured Poet’s Departments, released in 2024. might have scored the biggest opening-week debut for the popstar. Taylor Swift is now making her bold admission with five songs into her new album.
The Life of a Showgirl is out on Friday, October 3, on which Swift does not abandon the relatable big sister vibes that drove her into rarified billionaire air. The famous popstar, a 35-year-old woman, who is in love and proudly flaunts her emotional and physical feelings to her man, Travis Kelce.
For her 12th album, Taylor started recording her songs earlier in 2024, in the midst of the European leg of her record-shattering Eras Tour. She revealed her candid appearance with Kelce on his New Heights podcast.
Taylor Swift’s five-continent expedition, 149 shows, brought out a tsunami of emotions among her fans. The 12th album has been presaved more than 5 million times on Spotify. “I’m Immortal now”, Swift sings in the title track, which is likely to be an extravagant boast rather than a statement of fact.
Swift’s new album is cooler and compact than her previous collaborations with Martin. At 41 minutes, The Life of a Showgirl is the shortest album since her debut in 2006. Thematically, the latest lyrics of the album consist of two distinct threads. Half of the album’s 12 songs are about falling completely and head over heels in love. In contrast, the rest are tackling the seedy underbelly of fame.
The fans will get some classics, like the image of a burlesque dancer “glowing like the end of a cegeratte”, or referring to a critic’s barbs to “a toy chihuahua barking from a tiny purse”.
“The Fate of Ophelia” opens the album, and it is a standout track, for sure. This song opens with what sounds like Coldplay piano chords. The song “Opalite” is about creating one’s own happiness, as Swift described it in its introduction.
Swift incorporates numerous old-fashioned values into her lyrics on the new album. Some of Swift’s songs contain instances of alcohol. In “cancelled”, she notes that she and her friends like their whiskey sour, and in “Father Figure” she references “brown liquor”.
“Wood” is not about superstition; rather, it’s about the physical excitement, and it’s filled with double entendres. It may be the most suggestive song on The Life of a Showgirl album. The song “Actually Romantic” contains a few sentences indicating a snide same-sex attraction between two women. In her introduction, Swift says that it is a love letter to someone who actually hates you.
The Official release party of the album is certainly meant for the fans of Swift, and for the fans who will rush out to purchase the album. When Taylor speaks, fans jump – and many of her ardent listeners will rush to Plugged In to see if they should.
