Orange you glad Taylor’s back at theaters?
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Sorry to Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, but Taylor Swift has now laid claim to the October 3 release weekend with a new 89-minute “album release party,” rendering any other attempt to see a movie that weekend null and void. The aptly and succinctly named Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl will premiere at 3 p.m. ET and play the whole weekend. On her socials, Swift wrote that the party — or, sorry, “dazzling soirée” — would include “the exclusive world premiere of the music video” for her first single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” as well as “never before seen behind-the-scenes footage of how we made it, cut by cut explanations of what inspired this music, and the brand new lyric videos from my new album The Life of a Showgirl.”
Before she was too famous to function in normal society, Swift was known to invite dedicated fans over for “Secret Sessions” wherein hand-selected Swifties would get the opportunity to listen to an album early and eat Swift-made baked goods. Which begs the question: Are theaters going to stock up on sourdough? Some fans were hoping that her movie announcement might be the long-anticipated Eras Tour documentary, but it seems we’ll have to keep waiting for that one. Until then, you have two weeks to buy something orange and green to wear to the movies and never again.
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