Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album is finally days away, and fans have already put together some of the missed Easter egg hunts ahead of its release – Cardiff, anyone?
Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album, The Life of a Showgirl, drops in a matter of hours and fans are eager to decode the theme behind the project. The 12-track album features the lead single ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ and a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’.
Following a successful Eras Tour and last year’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, as well as a very public relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce, the Swifties – Taylor’s fans – have been on the hunt for Life of a Showgirl easter eggs, as theories about what the songs could be about have been going viral.
A surprising theory from Taylor’s last show in Cardiff left many shocked. The performance stop was the only one-off city on Swift’s Eras tour, where fans began putting together clues, such as her debuting a green-and-orange skirt and top.
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Later in the acoustic set, Taylor wore an orange dress, leading fans to theorise that both outfits hinted at ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’s colour scheme.
To add even more mystery, BBC Wales shared the possibility of a link between Cardiff Bay and the new album. The first easter egg was a photo of the singer posing in the cleaning cart she used to enter the concert venue. Later that year, touring in Vancouver, Canada, Taylor posed in the same cleaning cart in front of a painting of Cardiff Bay by Rachel Rasmussen.
A hardcore Swiftie fan said, “For ages, we thought [the Cardiff Bay pictures] were so random [and that] she must really like Wales. Only now we realise the Cardiff show… was maybe an Easter egg all along.”
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Other fans took to social media to share their thoughts. A fan joked on X: “The key to being a swiftie is to have a friend who’s a bigger Swiftie than you are. So you can have your insane theories and obsess over the albums and easter eggs but you’re not known as “that girl who is obsessed with Taylor Swift.”
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A second one added: “At what point do I quit my job and become a full time Taylor Swift easter egg investigator.”
But there’s more, Taylor Nation, who are known to be the singer’s official marketing and fan club team, shared a time card on their social media accounts for a weekend with surprises. Labelled ‘standby’, fans will have to wait and see what the singer has more to share.
When did Taylor announce The Life of a Showgirl?
On August 13, Taylor surprised her fans by announcing her new album during an appearance on her fiancé Travis Kelce’s podcast. Soon after its announcement, the album became available for fans to pre-order, as she also revealed the cover and tracklist.
NME revealed that the singer has broken her own Spotify record with a huge number of five million pre-saves for her upcoming album. The numbers have surpassed her previous record in 2024 with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
When will The Life of a Showgirl be released?
Taylor’s 12th studio album will drop at midnight ET on October 3. For UK fans, it will be available at 5am on the same day. Taylor will appear on The Graham Norton Show later that evening alongside Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Domhnall Gleeson, and singer Lewis Capaldi.
The Life of a Showgirl tracklist
- The Fate of Ophelia
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Opalite
- Father Figure
- Eldest Daughter
- Ruin the Friendship
- Actually Romantic
- Wish List
- Wood
- Cancelled!
- Honey
- The Show of a Showgirl (featuring Sabrina Carpenter)
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