Taylor Swift has opened up about her forthcoming album Life of a Showgirl and revealed she found inspiration after a string of ‘dramatic’ events on The Eras Tour
Taylor Swift has revealed her Life of a Showgirl album was inspired by “dramatic” events. The global megastar, 35, today confirmed the release of her latest album following weeks of speculation.
The pop star appeared on a podcast with her boyfriend, Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce, and his brother Jason, which over 1.3 million people tuned in for the live event. But while Taylor is notoriously private and rarely gives interviews, the Bad Blood songstress offered an insight into the record, which will be released in October.
Her new record, which she wrote on her Eras Tour and recorded to in Sweden, will feature 12 tracks, including a duet with Sabrina Carpenter. Speaking about the album, Taylor said: “This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant.” It comes after Taylor Swift announces Sabrina Carpenter duet and The Life of a Showgirl release date.
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She went on to add: “It comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in, in my life. So that effervescence has come through on this record. As you said, bangers, we were just like, there’s no other songs coming. There’s no other songs coming, with The Tortured Poets Department, here’s everything I’ve thought, felt and experienced in two or three years.
“This is 12, there’s not a 13th, there’s not another one coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time. I also wanted it to be every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, you couldn’t take one out and it be the same album. It’s just right.”
Speaking on the New Heights podcast, she added: “That focus and that discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. I tend to love to write lots and lots of music, so it’s a temptation to release lots of music.
“But lots of times, I’ve wanted to do an album that’s so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together like a perfect puzzle, that these 12 songs for my 12th album, I feel like we’ve achieved that and I’m really happy with that.” Reflecting on the writing and recording process, which saw her complete three shows, head to Sweden and then hit the road again, Swift commented: “I was basically exhausted at this point in the tour, but I was so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating.”
Her boyfriend, Travis, joked that she was “literally living the life of a showgirl,” hence the reasoning behind the name of the record. She went on to say: “And one of the things about this record is like, it’s a record I made with my mentor, Max Martin and Shellback. And the three of us have made some of my favourite songs that I’ve ever done before.”
She explained that she worked with Martin and Shellback on her Red album for a string of hits taken from the record. “We’ve made songs that I’m so proud of,” before explaining that there were no other collaborators on her latest album, which she says felt like “catching lightening”.
But she also used the podcast to explain that it made her fall in love with Travis, joking that he used it as a personal dating app and soon realised “he’s the good kind of crazy.” He famously gushed over Taylor before the pair had even met, with Taylor commenting that the clip felt as though “he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, ‘I want to go on a date with you’.”
Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter said she was “freaking out” about her collaboration with Taylor. Sharing the news on her Instagram Story, Sabrina wrote: “I know someone who’s freaking out and its me.” Sabrina was recently the opener for a leg of Taylor’s Eras Tour, and she previously heaped praise on her idol.
She told Rolling Stone magazine last year: “I hold her to such a different echelon. I could never compare my life, my career, my trajectory to anything close to what she’s done.” The Life Of A Showgirl is Swift’s first album since regaining control of her back catalogue and purchasing the rights to all of her concert films, music videos, album art and photography, as well as her unreleased songs.
The US popstar re-recorded her first six albums and released them as Taylor’s Version, following a dispute with retired talent manager Scooter Braun. Braun acquired the back catalogue when he bought Swift’s former label. Her master copies were then sold in a deal with Shamrock Capital, before Swift purchased them from the company in May.
Swift has released new versions of Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989, but is yet to release her debut self-titled album or 2017’s Reputation. Speaking about acquiring her master recordings, Swift said: “A lot of record deals are set up in a way that artists don’t own their master recordings. Owning your master recordings means that you have complete control and power over distribution, licensing, and essentially the way your legacy is shaped.
“My music has been sold a few times. The first time it was sold, it really ripped my heart out of my chest. I started basically defiantly re-recording my music because I wanted to own it. And this was the only way I thought it was ever going to happen. Re-recording my music, it was so exciting to get to have that opportunity. But I still thought about not owning my music every day. After the Eras tour, I had a meeting with my team and we decided this might be a good time to approach the current owners of it.”
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The Life of a Showgirl will be released on October 3.
Source: Mirror
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