Taylor Swift will release a new studio album: 'The Life of a Showgirl'

BarcelonaTaylor Swift is shaking up the music scene again with the announcement of her twelfth studio album, The life of a showgirlThe announcement was made through a countdown on its website and a surprise appearance in a promotional video for the podcast. New heights, hosted by her boyfriend, American football player Travis Kelce. There's no official release date yet, but pre-orders for the album are now available through the artist's website.

The news was preceded by a countdown that culminated at 6:12 a.m. (Catalonia time), at which point Swift appears in the video opening a briefcase with her initials on it. From there, she pulled out a vinyl record with a blurred cover and announced the album's title. Although pre-orders are now available, a release date has not yet been announced. The vinyl record can be purchased online for $30 (€25.85), a CD with a poster for $13 (€11.20), and a cassette tape for $20 (€17.23).

So far, it hasn't been confirmed who produced the music for the new album, but there's a possibility that it's the work of Max Martin and Shellback, producers who have previously worked with the artist. Swift has shared a Spotify playlist with twenty-two of her songs produced by them. Fans speculate that, for this project, the singer may have dispensed with her usual collaborator, Jack Antonoff, with whom she had co-produced the albums. 1989(2014),Reputation(2017),Lover(2019),Folklore(2020) andEvermore(2020).

The new project comes at a key moment for the artist, who in May recovered the rights to his first six albums, putting an end to a long dispute with his former record label. His latest album, The Tortured Poets Department (2023), managed to break the record for plays in a week on Spotify with one billion listens. And his latest tour, The Eras Tour, was also a huge success and became the highest grossing film of all time. swiftflation, a play on words between the artist's surname and inflation, is a term used by some economists to define the economic impact that concerts generate in the cities where they are scheduled.