October 6, 2025 - It’s one of the moments when, musically, The Life of a Showgirl brushes up against a much better idea—a big, glorious pageant that inspires organic passion and camaraderie; a concept album with the ambition to do something familiar like it’s never been seen before.

October 6, 2025 - Pitchfork gives The Life of a Showgirl a 5.9 (Lowest score given to a TS album by P4K)

October 3, 2025 - So give a warm welcome to The Life of a Showgirl, Swift’s 12th studio album, which foils The Tortured Poets Department in a few major ways. For one, it’s a tight 12-track run compared to the colossal 31-track of TTPD.

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October 8, 2025 - This is the real life of a showgirl, emphasis on show: an endless discursive blitz, deftly manipulated by Swift to generate as much fan chatter, gossip, and coverage as possible. Her multilayered, ARG-industrial-complex release strategy is echoed ...

October 3, 2025 - The follow-up to last year’s The Tortured Poets Department and its extended edition, The Anthology, features Sabrina Carpenter on the title track, as well as a sample of George Michael’s “Father Figure” on the song of the same name. Swift worked on her new album with Max Martin and Shellback, the Swedish production duo who co-helmed much of 2012’s Red, 2014’s 1989, and 2017’s Reputation. Listen to The Life of a Showgirl below.

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September 1, 2025 - I don’t usually go as far out of my way to think about Taylor Swift’s upcoming wedding to Travis Kelce, but then she announced her new album on his podcast, and one track on it is a song-length dick joke. ... But it is simply untrue to claim, as Rolling Stone did on Friday, that Showgirl represents “new, exciting sonic turns.” · Damn even Pitchfork thinks Rolling Stone is up Taylor’s arse.

October 6, 2025 - Pitchfork review of The Life of a Showgirl Album: 5.9

October 8, 2025 - Since its release, on Friday, October 3, The Life of a Showgirl has already hit 3.5 million equivalent unit sales—some 20,000 more than 25 amassed in its first week—according to initial reports from the data tracking firm Luminate. Adele still holds the record for actual albums sold, a metric that includes physical and digital sales but not streams; 25 racked up 3.378 million to The Life of a Showgirl’s 3.2 million.

October 3, 2025 - For longtime fans, the price of Swift becoming the world’s biggest pop star is clear: On The Life of a Showgirl, her 12th album, the pinpoint specificity that defined her best work has all but evaporated, replaced by flaccid podcast-related sexual innuendo and clunker words like “legitly.”

October 3, 2025 - “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave,” she sings on “Actually Romantic,” one of the lowlights off her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.

October 7, 2025 - Read “5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl,” plus Pitchfork’s track reviews of “Actually Romantic” and “Father Figure.”

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October 3, 2025 - Still fresh off her engagement and a year after The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift is back with her 12th original studio album: The Life of a Showgirl. Swift wrote and produced the 12-track LP with two of pop’s most decorated producers, ...

October 6, 2025 - Pitchfork recently dropped its review of Taylor Swift's twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. The outlet gave the record a 5.9 out of 10. The score has sent the internet into a frenzy.

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