{"id":61782,"date":"2025-08-12T05:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61782\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:39:06","slug":"taylor-swift-announces-new-album-after-suspenseful-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61782\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift announces new album after suspenseful countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Taylor Swift has announced a new studio album called The Life of a Showgirl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The announcement comes after an official countdown was put up on the singer&#8217;s official website an orange glittery backdrop with the words &#8220;expires August 12 at 12:12am ET [Eastern Time].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">As soon as the announcement was made on the website, a snippet on the podcast New Heights \u2014 which her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce host \u2014 was uploaded to Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">While on the podcast, she opened up a suitcase with the letters T and S and pulling out her new album out of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;This is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl,&#8221; she said while pulling up an album that has been blurred in the Instagram reel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">When the countdown had finished the singer&#8217;s official website had crashed for just over a minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Fans have taken to X to share their excitement about the upcoming album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">This will be the singer&#8217;s 12th album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A date for the album&#8217;s release has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has announced a new studio album called The Life of a Showgirl. The announcement comes after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6979,5871,64,63,134,136,49867,2897],"class_list":["post-61782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-album","tag-announcement","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-swifties","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}