Taylor Swift has introduced her twelfth studio album throughout an look on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast.
The pop megastar, showing on New Heights, didn’t say when the document, titled The Life Of A Showgirl, might be launched.
Followers can pre-order the album in varied codecs now and Swift’s web site says bodily copies might be shipped by 13 October.
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Pic: New Heights
On Monday, Taylor Nation – an official department of the singer’s advertising and marketing staff – teased the discharge on TikTok with a slideshow of 12 photos alongside the caption: “Thinking about when she said ‘See you next era…'”
Swift is seen carrying orange in each image.
A particular restricted vinyl version of the album might be launched in “Portofino orange glitter”, in accordance with a pre-order web page on her website. A particular cassette version can also be obtainable for pre-order.
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Taylor Swift’s web site options The Lifetime of a Showgirl pre-order choices. Pic: Reuters
A short clip from the New Heights podcast, hosted by Swift’s NFL star boyfriend, Travis Kelce and his brother Jason, a former NFL participant, was posted on Instagram early on Tuesday.
The video confirmed Swift pulling a duplicate of the album from a briefcase with the quilt blurred.
The total podcast episode might be launched at 11pm on Tuesday, UK time.
Swift resides as much as her status as pop’s hardest-working star
Gemma Peplow
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You may assume that after pulling off the highest-grossing tour in historical past, all whereas writing and releasing an surprising record-breaking double album on the similar time, Taylor Swift could be blissful to take just a little break.
However no. The singer-songwriter has introduced her twelfth album, her sixth in six years.
Since her self-titled debut in 2006, the longest interval Swifties have needed to wait is simply three years, between 2014’s 1989 and 2017’s Popularity; the interval during which the star took day out following her public feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Over the previous few years, Swift has additionally re-recorded and re-released 4 of her early albums in a (now resolved) battle over the rights to her grasp recordings.
With the brand new announcement, she’s residing as much as her status because the hardest-working star in pop.
Album quantity 12 is titled The Life Of A Showgirl, hinting at inspiration drawn from spending one of the best a part of two years on the street – and maybe a return to pop after embracing people and her extra gothic facet.
Followers are actually eagerly ready to search out out what Swift’s new period will carry.
New Heights had beforehand teased Swift’s look by posting an orange picture on social media with a mysterious silhouette, which many accurately recognized because the pop star.
The Life Of A Showgirl follows Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, launched final yr throughout her record-breaking Eras tour, which generated greater than $2.2bn (£1.6bn) throughout two years and 5 continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.
It marks her first launch since she took again management over her complete again catalogue from personal fairness agency Shamrock Capital for an undisclosed quantity.
In an effort to regain management over her music in recent times, Swift has been re-recording and releasing her first six albums. The transfer was prompted by Hybe America CEO Scooter Braun’s buy and sale of her early catalogue.
Among the ‘Taylor’s Model’ releases have included new songs in addition to Easter eggs and visuals to supply a deeper understanding of her work.
The 4 re-recorded albums launched to this point have been large business and cultural successes, every one getting into the Billboard 200 US album chart at primary, serving to her turn into the lady with probably the most primary albums in historical past.
