You might have noticed some of your coworkers are overly excited this week and counting down the minutes until midnight on October 3. No, these are not diehard cinephiles devoted to the 2004 film Mean Girls (which features a joke about the date). Instead, they’re Taylor Swift fans.

The Life of a Showgirl, Swift’s twelfth studio album, is set to be released late Friday night. (So if the Swifties in the office seem overwhelmed, grant them grace, because this is a big week.)

Here’s everything you need to know about the album—in case you’re cornered by the coffee maker by someone with a friendship bracelet (the unofficial signifier of a Swift super fan).

When and how did Swift announce The Life of a Showgirl?

On August 11, Swift’s website revealed a countdown to 12:12 a.m. ET on August 12.

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