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NEW YORK -- Look what you made her bash - Taylor Swift has announced her 12th workplace album, "The Life of a Showgirl."
Swift announced the medium connected her website soon aft a countdown timer expired astatine 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. No merchandise day was announced, but her site said vinyl editions of the medium would vessel earlier Oct. 13.
Fans person agelong theorized that Swift's 12th medium would soon arrive. On Monday, Taylor Nation - an authoritative subdivision of the popular superstar's selling squad - posted a TikTok descent amusement of 12 images with the caption "Thinking astir erstwhile she said 'See you adjacent era...'" Swift is seen wearing orangish successful each image.
A peculiar constricted vinyl variation of the medium volition beryllium released successful "Portofino orangish glitter," according to a pre-order leafage connected her site. A peculiar cassette variation is besides disposable for pre-order.
Sensing a pattern, eagle-eyed fans noticed that 12 minutes earlier, the fashionable "New Heights" podcast posted a tease for Wednesday. The show, hosted by Swift's fellow and Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce alongside his brother, erstwhile Eagles halfway Jason Kelce, posted an orangish representation connected societal media with a mysterious silhouette, galore believing to beryllium Swift.
FILE - Taylor Swift performs astatine Wembley Stadium arsenic portion of her Eras Tour June 21, 2024, successful London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
The podcast announced aboriginal Tuesday that Swift would look connected "New Heights" and a teaser video posted astir her quality showed her pulling the medium from a briefcase. The existent medium artwork, conscionable arsenic it is connected her website, is blurred.
"The Life of a Showgirl" follows past year's "The Tortured Poets Department," announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during her record-breaking tour, which raked successful implicit $2.2 cardinal crossed 2 years and 5 continents, making it the highest-grossing circuit of each time.
The medium is besides her archetypal merchandise since Swift regained power implicit her full assemblage of work. In May, that popular prima said she purchased her catalog of recordings - primitively released done Big Machine Records - from their astir caller owner, the backstage equity steadfast Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount.
In caller years, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her archetypal six albums successful an effort to regain power of her music. The task was instigated by Hybe America CEO Scooter Braun's acquisition and merchantability of her aboriginal catalog and represents Swift's effort to power her ain songs and however they're used. Previous "Taylor's Version" releases person been much than accepted re-recordings, arriving with caller "from the vault" music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen knowing of her work.
So far, determination person been 4 rerecorded albums, opening with "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" and "Red (Taylor's Version)" successful 2021. All 4 person been monolithic commercialized and taste successes, each 1 debuting astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200.
Swift's past re-recording, "1989 (Taylor's Version)," arrived successful October 2023, conscionable 4 months aft the merchandise of "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)." That was the aforesaid twelvemonth Swift claimed the grounds for the pistillate with the astir No. 1 albums successful history.
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