Taylor Swift live: The Life of a Showgirl release time, easter eggs, lyrics and key themes

“It’s not like The Tortured Poets Department where I was like: ‘Here’s a data dump of everything I thought or felt in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs.’ This is 12,” Swift said. “There’s not a 13th, there’s not a 14th, there’s not other ones coming.”

Swift’s decision comes after she received some criticism for the lengthy tracklists of recent albums such as last year’s The Tortured Poets Department, the “anthology” edition of which ran for 35 songs, including four acoustic versions.

I wrote this piece in August after Taylor and Travis announced their engagement – on why her engagement to the all-American sports star makes so much sense.

The singer will appear on the second episode of the new series of the BBC talkshow, where she will appear alongside actors Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Domhnall Gleeson.

Talking about her 12th studio album, the 35-year-old will make her first appearance on the red sofa since 2022, in an episode that also featured U2’s Bono, Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne and former England footballer Alex Scott.

Taylor Swift is poised to release her new record, The Life of a Showgirl.

“This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and and vibrant,” she said during her appearance on fiance Travis Kelce’s podcast.

“It just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life. That effervescence has come through on this record, and like, as [Kelce] said… bangers.”

She added that the album will stand alone without bonus tracks, confirming: “There’s no other songs coming.”