By MARIA SHERMAN
NEW YORK (AP) — Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has introduced her twelfth studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Swift introduced the album on her web site shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. No launch date was introduced, however her website mentioned vinyl editions of the album would ship earlier than Oct. 13.
Followers have lengthy theorized that Swift’s twelfth album would quickly arrive. On Monday, Taylor Nation — an official department of the pop famous person’s advertising and marketing group — posted a TikTok slide present of 12 photographs with the caption “Thinking about when she said ‘See you next era…’” Swift is seen carrying orange in each picture.
A particular restricted vinyl version of the album will likely be launched in “portofino orange glitter,” in keeping with a pre-order web page on her website.
Sensing a sample, eagle-eyed followers observed that 12 minutes earlier, the favored “New Heights” podcast posted a tease for Wednesday. The present, hosted by Swift’s boyfriend and Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce alongside his brother, former Eagles heart Jason Kelce, posted an orange picture on social media with a mysterious silhouette, many believing to be Swift.
Swift additionally introduced early Tuesday that she would seem on the podcast and a teaser video posted about her look confirmed her pulling the album from a briefcase. The precise album paintings, simply as it’s on her web site, is blurred.
“The Life of a Showgirl” follows final yr’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” introduced through the 2024 Grammys and launched throughout her record-breaking tour, which raked in over $2.2 billion throughout two years and 5 continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.
The album can also be her first launch since Swift regained management over her complete physique of labor. In Might, that pop star mentioned she bought her catalog of recordings — initially launched by Massive Machine Data — from their most up-to-date proprietor, the non-public fairness agency Shamrock Capital. She didn’t disclose the quantity.
Lately, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her first six albums in an try and regain management of her music. The venture was instigated by Hybe America CEO Scooter Braun’s buy and sale of her early catalog and represents Swift’s effort to regulate her personal songs and the way they’re used. Earlier “Taylor’s Version” releases have been greater than typical re-recordings, arriving with new “from the vault” music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.
To this point, there have been 4 rerecorded albums, starting with “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in 2021. All 4 have been huge business and cultural successes, each debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Swift’s final rerecording, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” arrived in October 2023, simply 4 months after the discharge of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).” That was the identical yr Swift claimed the file for the girl with probably the most No. 1 albums in historical past.
Initially Printed: August 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM PDT
