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Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl Album Review | Pitchfork
October 6, 2025 - But, like most ordinary rules of pop music stardom, this one doesn’t fully apply to Swift: Her 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department, had a big hit in the Post Malone adult-contemporary duet “Fortnight,” but in the same year, the Eras Tour and savvy marketing sent her 2019 song “Cruel Summer” to the top of the charts, too. More than any other pop singer, Swift has the luxury of setting her own agenda. Even before it came out, The Life of a Showgirl was already the biggest pop album of the year. This is music for Taylor Swift fans and I am one!
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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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Half the album is an easy fun listen. The other half should never be heard again. Wait until she has a kid and the classics will come again! She’s just out of material at this point. More on reddit.com
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October 4, 2025"The cringey, sour, diet indie rock track is the latest in a series of songs where Swift airs out her grievances on record. It’s one of the lowlights of her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl"
As much as this sub loves to shit on them, Pitchfork has been so back lately. Not only are they finally not afraid to shit all over a major artist again, but theyre actually giving out more daring and interesting BNMs lately. Something has shifted with them recently and I do not know what. More on reddit.com
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October 3, 2025Pitchfork Review: Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (5.9)
“But it is simply untrue to claim, as Rolling Stone did on Friday, that Showgirl represents “new, exciting sonic turns.”’ the girls are fighting!! More on reddit.com
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5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl | Pitchfork
October 3, 2025 - Swift dreams up a white picket fence life on “Wi$h Li$t,” complete with gaggles of children playing house together, while “Ruin the Friendship” imagines a teenage Swift too stunned to make a move on a boy she’s crushing on; it ends with her at his funeral, reminiscent of the frosty Red (Taylor’s Version) track “Forever Winter.” Most major celebrities or pop artists will tell you their lives are spent in a glass cage, and yearn for mundanity as much as some pine for fame. In Taylor’s words on the record’s rapturous finale, “You don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe, and you’re never gonna wanna.”
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Inside the Fan Insanity Unleashed by The Life of a Showgirl | Pitchfork
October 8, 2025 - There’s also the dude who ranked ... 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....
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Taylor Swift Earns 15th No. 1 Album With The Life of a Showgirl | Pitchfork
October 13, 2025 - As expected, Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl has broken records on its way to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200.
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Taylor Swift Releases New Album The Life of a Showgirl: Listen and Read the Full Credits | Pitchfork
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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Taylor Swift: “Father Figure” Track Review | Pitchfork
October 3, 2025 - The standout track from The Life of a Showgirl is Swift’s most straightforward appraisal of her own power—it’s what she does best. ... For the past few years, it’s felt like Taylor Swift’s goal has been expansion at any cost.
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The Guardian: Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled - 2/5
The Telegraph: Taylor Swift’s new album is as sickly sweet as a Barbara Cartland fever dream - 3/5
The Independent: Taylor Swift review, The Life of a Showgirl: As compelling as she’s ever been – the star, the ringmaster and the circus all in one - 4/5
Rolling Stones: Taylor Swift Conquers Her Biggest Stage Ever on ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ - 5/5
Billboard: Taylor Swift Brings the Bangers on ‘Life of a Showgirl,’ But Don’t Call It ‘1989, Pt. 2’: Critic’s Take
Variety: With ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift Has Made Such a Contagiously Joyful Record, Even Her Score-Settling Detours Sound Sunny
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The Telegraph: Taylor Swift: I thought I had to be sad to write songs
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The Guardian: Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict - Opinion piece by Laura Snapes
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Taylor Swift: “Actually Romantic” Track Review | Pitchfork
October 3, 2025 - It’s telling that The Life of a Showgirl’s most sensual line—“Feels like you’re flirting with me…It’s kind of making me wet”—appears here, and not on any of the songs addressed to Kelce. One of the main cogs in the Swiftian songwriting machine is spite, and it’s getting pretty rusty.
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October 3, 2025 - it would be exhausting to be any celebrity online and use any of the 1 million common modern-day sayings as casually as possible just for swift fan's to endlessly prescribe her the credit for shit as simple as having "bad blood" what's next? someone makes a jack and jill reference in a caption an the ad revenue gotta go back to taylor too? Continue this thread Continue this thread Continue this thread ... Wasn’t the entire promo of the album “a peek backstage at a showgirls life”??
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11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Taylor Swift, Malibu, and More | Pitchfork
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, Max Martin and Shellback, reuniting with the ...
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Taylor Swift Talks The Life of a Showgirl, Engagement, Super Bowl, and More on Fallon: Watch | Pitchfork
October 7, 2025 - Over the weekend, Swift dropped a deluxe version of The Life of a Showgirl, featuring acoustic versions and demos from the album. She also premiered the music video for opening track “The Fate of Ophelia” at screenings of The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, a theatrical release that compiled together lyric videos and behind-the-scenes footage. Watch the video below. 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.”