Everything We Know About Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (So Far)

Taylor Swift didn’t rest for long after wrapping her global Eras Tour. After just eight months of downtime, the pop superstar all but broke the internet by revealing at 12:12 a.m. ET Tuesday (Aug. 12) that she’d be embarking on a brand new era with the release of an album titled The Life of a Showgirl, which will mark the 12th studio LP in her discography.

What was almost as eye-popping as the announcement itself was the way she shared the news. In lieu of her more recent method of unveiling new albums during award-show acceptance speeches — like she did for 2022’s Midnights at the VMAs and 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department at the Grammys — Swift instead chose a much more casual route of spreading the word this time. Joining boyfriend Travis Kelce on his New Heights podcast, the 14-time Grammy winner simply revealed the project’s existence and title in a clip posted to the show’s social media accounts, just one day before the full episode’s release.

“So, I wanted to show you something,” she said in the video, pulling a blurred-out vinyl from a “T.S.” brief case as the Kansas City Chiefs tight end beamed beside her. “This is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl.”

When the podcast episode finally dropped, Swift also shared more news in an Instagram announcement, captioned, “And, baby, that’s show business for you.”

Fans, however, are still clamoring for all the information they can get on the LP, which will mark Swift’s first full-length since 17-week Billboard 200 chart-topper Tortured Poets. And while only time will tell how the famously cryptic, Easter-egg-dropping musician will continue sharing new details and snippets from Life of a Showgirl, Billboard is keeping track of all of them as they come.

See everything there is to know — so far — about Swift’s 12th studio album below.