Taylor Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl release time is right around the corner, and buzzing doesn't even cover it.
The Life of a Showgirl will be Swift’s first album since buying back the full rights to her first six albums. In May, Swift announced the happy news that she had done so, writing in a note shared to her site, “All of the music I ever made... now belongs... to me,” and concluding a long-term battle over the ownership of her music.
So,how did we finally get the news of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl and what can we expect from it? Grab your sequins, your boas and your razzle-dazzle energy, because a new era is officially upon us. Here's everything we know, including when The Life of a Showgirl will be released, song titles and approximate runtime.
A die-hard Swiftie unpacks all the easter eggs, song meaning, and lyrics.
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- How was Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl announced?
- When does The Life of a Showgirl come out?
- What time does The Life of a Showgirl come out in the UK?
- What else we know about The Life of a Showgirl
- Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl song list
- How long is The Life of a Showgirl?
- How to pre-order The Life of a Showgirl
How was Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl announced?
It feels like only yesterday that the singer's twelfth studio album was announced (on Travis Kelce's podcast ‘New Heights’, no less).
Fans were already on high alert following a number of easter eggs left for us to pick up on in true Taylor Swift style, with Taylor Nation reminding Swifties of the time she said “See you next era,” in a post on 11 August comprised of a round-up of pictures featuring Tay Tay wearing the colour orange.
Adding further fuel to the fire, Kelce posted at the exact same time to Instagram, saying there would be a “VERY special guest” coming to the podcast, with the teaser image notably featuring a sparkly orange background.
Orange you glad we're so tuned into these little crumbs of evidence?
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Of course, particularly observant Swifties quickly noticed that the silhouette was from her Variety Directors on Directors appearance from December 2022. Iiiinteresting. All very compelling evidence.
The Life of a Showgirl announcement landed on Taylor Swift's website following a mysterious timer appearing, which was counting down to 00:12 ET (05:12 UK time).
Shocking to no one, when the countdown hit tim,e Swift's site immediately crashed before finally recovering to share limited details about her new project.
However, during her appearance on Kelce's podcast, we saw Swift dramatically open a cream briefcase with an orange ‘TS’ embellished on it to reveal a blurred out vinyl, explaining “This is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl", closely followed by Jason Kelce's screams. Showmanship at its best.
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When does The Life of a Showgirl come out?
During her appearance on the ‘New Heights’ podcast, Swift revealed that the album will be released on 3 October (yes, Mean Girls day people!), while preorders will be shipped on 13 October.
And yes, Friday 3 October is tomorrow.
As with Taylor's previous album releases, The Life of a Showgirl will be released at midnight ET (00:00 am ET), releasing globally at once which means Swifties everywhere will be able to enjoy TLOSG goodness all together.
In the UK, this means The Life of a Showgirl is dropping at 5AM BST, so set your alarms now!
The Life of a Showgirl release time by country:
- United States (PT) – 9pm (Thursday 2nd)
- United States (ET) – 12am
- Canada – 12am (Toronto), 9pm (Thursday 2nd) (Vancouver)
- Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) – 1am
- Argentina (Buenos Aires) – 1am
- United Kingdom (BST) – 5am
- Europe (CET) – 6am
- South Africa (Cape Town, CAT) – 6am
- India (New Delhi) – 9:30am
- Indonesia (Jakarta) – 11am
- Philippines (Manila) – 12pm
- China (Beijing, Shanghai) – 12pm
- Hong Kong – 12pm
- Singapore – 12pm
- Australia – 12pm (Perth), 2pm (Sydney)
- Japan (Tokyo) – 1pm
- New Zealand (Auckland) – 5pm
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What time does The Life of a Showgirl come out in the UK?
We need specifics! If you're anything like us, you'll be hitting play on track one the second it drops.
Here in the UK, the new album will land on music streamers at precisely 5 am BST. Yes, that's five in the morning. In other words, we'll all be turning in very early tonight, setting our alarms, and dreaming of Vegas.
Grab your boas and your sequins…
What else do we know about The Life of a Showgirl
No one works harder than Taylor Swift fans, and they have been piecing together the clues for some time now. Along with the major announcement, at the time, a playlist also cropped up on T-Swizzle's Spotify.
In a comment on Reddit, one user was quick to call out “All songs produced by Max Martin and Shellback... Oh pop taylor is BACKKKK baby”, with many fans speculating the new album to be a quintessential pop banger Taylor style.
“POP BIBLE 2 CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!! WE ARE SO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!” said another.
In case you want to do your own research, here's the full Taylor Swift playlist to delve through:
Since her appearance on the ‘New Heights’ podcast, we also know that the album art is absolute fire, featuring Swift in various showgirl inspired 'fits.
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Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl song list
Here's the full list of songs on the new Taylor Swift album:
- The Fate of Ophelia
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Opalite
4. Father Figure
5. Oldest Daughter
6. Ruin The Friendship
7. Actually Romantic
8. Wish List
9. Wood
10. Cancelled!
11. Honey
12. The Life of a Showgirl featuring Sabrina Carpenter
Of these, the shortest song is set to be ‘Actually Romantic’ at 2 minutes 43 seconds, while ‘Eldest Daughter’ comes in at the longest at roughly 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
How long is The Life of a Showgirl?
The Life of a Showgirl will feature 12 songs in total, with the approximate run time set to be 41 minutes total. That means if you're up early enough to start listening by 5 am, come around 5.41 am, you will have had the full TLOAS experience.
How to pre-order The Life of a Showgirl
Fans have the option to pre-order an array of special editions of The Life of a Showgirl, though some have already sold out, so be quick!
Find all available vinyls and CDs here.
While we'll have to wait a little longer until we get more details of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl, we're expecting big things. Having performed 149 shows in 53 cities for her Eras tour and with 200 million albums sold worldwide, to say that we're excited for Taylor Swift's new album is an understatement.
