Taylor Swift entered her 12th era with her 41 minute, 12 track studio album entitled “The Life of a Showgirl” alongside producers Max Martin and Shellback on Oct. 3.
The album was released with several CD and vinyl variants all with different titles, cover art and vinyl colors. Amidst Swift’s record breaking tour, The Eras Tour, she wrote “The Life of a Showgirl” in Europe. The album peers into Swift’s personal life, behind the scenes of The Eras Tour.
The album was released with “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” movie only in theaters Friday, Oct. 3 through Sunday, Oct. 4. The movie featured behind the scenes of “The Fate of Ophelia” music video and song explanations from Swift herself followed by lyric videos for each song.
Swifties flocked to the theaters to celebrate the new album, making it number one at the domestic box office and grossing around $46 million globally. Hearing the meaning behind the songs makes the album better and more enjoyable.
“The Life of a Showgirl” boasts 2025’s second-largest streaming week for an album, second to Morgan Wallen’s, “I’m the Problem.”
“It sounded like Sabrina-Carpenter-song vibes,” freshman Audrey Drensky said. “It was not what I expected a Taylor Swift album to sound like.”
The album feels like the complete opposite of her last. Swift went from being a tortured poet to being a showgirl and presented a fun, danceable album, putting focus on sound rather than lyrics, unlike her last album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Fans of “1989” or “Midnights,” will like this album. “The Life of a Showgirl” has the mature, modern sound that “Midnights” does, but also incorporates the fun, upbeat energy of “1989.”
“[Swift] was really bold and didn’t hold back this album,” junior Mariana Gluck said. “The instruments and music were, like, really good this album.”
