TAYLOR SWIFT HAS announced her 12th studio album, titled The Life of a Showgirl.

It followed 24 hours of intense speculation, with social media accounts associated with Swift hinting at a “new era” and sharing orange-themed photos – a colour long-associated with her next album.

In a departure from her usual announcement style, Swift shared the news in a preview for an episode of her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights, which she’ll be guest starring on.

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The album cover was blurred in the preview.

Swift did not give the official release date for The Life of a Showgirl.

Her last album, The Tortured Poets Department came out in April 2024, during a break from the record-breaking Eras Tour.

Spanning 149 shows in 51 cities across five continents, the Eras Tour had a large cultural and socioeconomic impact.

The latest album announcement marks a return to the release rhythm of her career before the pandemic.

Since 2021, she’s re-recorded and released four of her earlier albums.

Swift said recently that she will not release re-recorded versions of her self-titled debut album or Reputation, her sixth album, as she was able to buy back her first six studio albums.

Fans fiercely backed the singer after she opened up about the sale of her masters, as well as the rights to all her music videos and artwork, by her record label in 2019. She said she tried to purchase them herself at the time but that the conditions were undesirable.

Since then, she’s released re-recordings, known as Taylor’s Versions, of four of the “stolen” albums: Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989.

Each album came with previously-unheard bonus tracks – “from the vault”.