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The Life of a Showgirl is Taylor Swift's infectious, irreverent 12th studio album.

Taylor Swift is in love. She’s also baking sourdough bread, and settling scores against her most venomous adversaries, and, as ever, looking to the past through sparkly tears – perhaps life was easier when she was eight or nine. Perhaps it was even better before she was born, she muses, in the sugary sonic worlds of vintage pop.

The Life of a Showgirl , Swift’s infectious, irreverent 12th studio album, doesn’t hide that it has something to prove – “You’re only as hot as your last hit, baby,” Swift croons on Elizabeth Taylor , a schmaltzy ode to the iconic actress that sideswipes her own relationship with fame.

In Swift’s case, economists are still working out the total impact of her “last hi

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