The show(girl) must go on! If your router’s been down for 48 hours, let me be the first to share that tortured poet Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl , coming out in October. On the back of a 21-month, billion-dollar Eras Tour and her first-ever podcast interview , the album is promised to be a “rapid-fire,” “upbeat” miscellany that also includes a cover of George Michael’s “Father Figure.”

TLOAS has been teased with a theatrical, behind-the-Broadway-curtain shoot, our showgirl found offstage—befeathered, boa-ed, and bejeweled bralette-ed—after her audience has filed out into the night. In the weeks before release, we can only guess at the type of showgirl Taylor will be—though it is difficult, without lyrical clues, not to draw a through line

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