The wait is over. Back on Aug. 13, Taylor Swift went on her then-boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights to first reveal that her much-anticipated 12th album — to be titled The Life of a Showgirl, and to consist of 12 pop “bangers” co-written and co-produced with her old 1989 collaborators Max Martin and Shellback — would be arriving on Oct. 3. Now, roughly seven weeks and exactly one engagement announcement later, your English teacher is here to make her Showgirl debut.

As the dozen-track set arrives this Friday — with just one featured guest, in fellow superstar and Eras Tour opener Sabrina Carpenter on the title track, though pop icon George Michael is also invoked via interpolation on “Father Figure” — Swift will also premiering her new film event, titled Taylor Swift: The Offici

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