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“And, baby, that’s show business for you,” Taylor Swift wrote online to debut the album cover for her new LP The Life of a Showgirl , officially out now (Oct. 3, 2025). As Swift wrote on her Instagram, the album is produced by previous Swift collaborators Max Martin, Shellback , along with Swift herself. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl marks the follow-up to the singer’s 2024 LP The Tortured Poets Department .

In the official Rolling Stone review (which earned five out of five stars), editor Maya Georgi said of the album, “With her 12th studio album, the musician shoots into a fresh eche

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