Ahead of the Life of a Showgirl’s release, Taylor Swift appeared on the New Neights podcast, hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce, this week
The much anticipated New Neights podcast episode featuring Taylor Swift has now been released and she drops some major news. While chatting to boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce, the pop icon revealed Sabrina Carpenter will feature on her new album.
Confirming The Life of a Showgirl, her 12th studio album, will feature 12 tracks, Taylor reveal the titles of all the new songs to feature on her new record. “And can you do drum roll? Last track, track 12, the title track, The Life of a Showgirl featuring Sabrina Carpenter,” she confirmed on the podcast. She also confirmed the album will be released October 3rd.
Jason then quizzed her on the significance of the colour orange, which features heavily in the teasers for the new album. “I’ve just always liked it, Jason. It really feels like, I don’t know. It feels like kind of energetically how my life has felt,” she explained.
“And this album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant. And one of the things about this record is like, it’s a record I made with my mentor, Max Martin and Shellback. And the three of us have made some of my favourite songs that I’ve ever done before.!
It had been announced on Tuesday that Taylor, 35, would be a guest on the podcast, which is hosted by her partner Travis Kelce, 35, and his brother Jason Kelce, 37. A preview released on social media at the time had shown the singer-songwriter teasing her new album The Life of a Showgirl.
The promotional clip showed Taylor telling Jason, who, like his brother, is known for playing in the NFL, whilst recording the podcast: “So I wanted to show you something.” He responded by asking her: “Okay, what do we go?”
Taylor held up a briefcase that had her initials on the front, before pulling out a vinyl sleeve that had been blurred. Confirming the name of her next album, she shared in the clip: “This is my brand new album, the Life of a Showgirl.”
She had announced the Life of a Showgirl, which is her twelfth original album, on August 12 and it’s said that the podcast teaser was shared on Instagram at 12.12am. The album cover wasn’t revealed though, with an orange padlock on a green backdrop used to temporarily conceal the artwork on her social media account and website following the news.
It comes just months on from Taylor sharing with fans in May that she now owns “all of the music” that she’s ever made. That announcement came following years of her releasing re-recorded versions of albums from earlier in her career following a dispute over her back catalogue.
She said in a statement earlier this year: “The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life’s work.” Taylor also said at the time: “To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it.”
Not including the four re-recorded albums she’s released, the Life of a Showgirl will be Taylor’s twelfth studio album to date. It follows the Tortured Poets Department, released by the Grammy Award winner in April last year.
That album topped the charts upon its release and was said to have broken records. It included, according to the Official Charts Company, her becoming the first artist to have 12 number one albums in the UK the 21st century.
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