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Let the show begin: Taylor Swift’s latest album, "The Life of a Showgirl," was released at midnight.

Fans wasted no time decoding the lyrics, which blend glitz and glamour with humanity and humor.

"The Life of a Showgirl," Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album , is here with 12 new songs for Swifties to decode.

Swift’s latest era was released at midnight Friday, Oct. 3, some six weeks after she announced the new album on fiancé Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights.

Swift has said "The Life of a Showgirl" is meant to embody her "Eras Tour" — a singular global phenomenon, a canonical event in the history of pop performance that, in its over three-hour runtime, was a sensory explosion. On these 12 tracks, she’s approximating glitz and glamour with humanity and humor. She spends

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