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 - It has two songs that reference Shakespeare plays, Opalite is a layered methaphor, Elizabeth Taylor is filled with interesting historical refrences like Portofino being a methaphor for marriage, Father Figure has a smart POV change, Eldest Daughter and Ruin the Friendship could have been on folklore with the strong emotional imagery and poetic lyrical approach, Actually Romantic has the same reframing, cheeky lyrics as Reputation, Wish List and Honey are concept songs similar to lots of songs on Lover but with a less muted production, Wood is a double entendre anthem and The Life of a Showgirl is exactly the kind of country, musical storytelling she is most famous for.

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.

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 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 ...

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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 - “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 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 - 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.

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

@pitchfork · . @TaylorSwift13's The Life of a Showgirl is here · Taylor Swift Releases New Album The Life of a Showgirl: Listen and Read the Full Credits · From pitchfork.com · 12:07 AM · Oct 3, 2025 · · · 42.3K Views · 15 · 8 · 55 · 6 · Read 15 replies ·

October 6, 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.

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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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October 3, 2025 - Full Review · 2mo · Best of 2025 · Recent Reviews · Artist Ratings · 58 · A.V. Club · Mary Kate Carr · The Life Of A Showgirl is perfunctorily solid, but the lyrical and thematic contradictions belie a pop star in identity crisis.

August 12, 2025 - Now, she’s announced a new album. The Life of a Showgirl will mark Swift’s 12th original studio album and follow-up to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department and its extended edition, The Anthology.