Taylor Swift
The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore
Republic/Taylor Swift
Released 09/25/26

  
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Nearly one year to the day of The Life Of A Showgirl’s release in early October of last year, Taylor Swift has unveiled the expanded edition of her twelfth studio album. The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore presents four new songs in the form of “Patient Zero,” “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon.”

Around the time of The Life Of A Showgirl’s original release, "I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max (Martin) and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album," Swift explains via Instagram. "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.”

The Life Of a Showgirl: The Encore is available for your listening pleasure via major streaming platforms now, with news of physical formats presumably forthcoming.

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