Taylor Swift Announces The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore

The updated version to her 2025 album includes four new songsTaylor in 2024 (Getty Images)Less than 24 hours after announcing a new song, “Patient Zero,” Taylor Swift is announcing a new album. Well, an “encore” to be exact: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore—not to be confused with The Life of a Showgirl + Acoustic Collection, The Life of a Showgirl: So Glamorous Cabaret Version, and The Life of a Showgirl: Dressing Room Rehearsal Version—includes four new songs from Swift’s 2025 studio album. You can find new artwork and the full tracklist below.“About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind…,” Swift wrote in a statement. “You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.”Swift released Showgirl, her 15th No. 1 album, last October. This year, she was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry, and premiered the original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Toy Story 5. Swift will receive the inaugural “Artist Director Honors” at this Sunday’s VMAs.The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore01 The Fate of Ophelia02 Elizabeth Taylor03 Opalite04 Father Figure05 Eldest Daughter06 Ruin the Friendship07 Actually Romantic08 Wi$h Li$t09 Wood10 Cancelled!11 Honey12 The Life of a Showgirl [ft. Sabrina Carpenter]13 Patient Zero14 Cleveland!15 Pink Clouding16 BabylonAlex Suskind has overseen music coverage for New York magazine’s Vulture and, before that, Entertainment Weekly. He has written about TV, film, technology, politics, and tons of other stuff for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, and The Fader. ... Read More