{"id":859997,"date":"2026-09-25T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:08:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-is-here-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859997\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore&#8217; Is Here: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a> is back for one last twirl under the spotlight for The Life of a Showgirl, dropping four new songs as part of a deluxe version of her 12th studio album on Friday (Sept. 25).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTitled The Life of a Showgirl: Encore, the extended project adds tracks titled \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d \u201cBabylon,\u201d \u201cPink Clouding\u201d and \u201cCleveland!\u201d to the original set, which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a> and opened with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-number-one-billboard-200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">record-shattering 4.002 million<\/a> equivalent album units in the United States in its first week. Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore-album-new-songs-1236345267\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">first announced<\/a> the deluxe just two days prior to its release, writing on Instagram, \u201cAbout a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing \u2026 you gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album,\u201d she continued in her post. \u201cReally we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA couple of days prior, the 14-time Grammy winner had teased that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-countdown-clock-website-clues-1236344546\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">something was coming <\/a>by switching out the letter O\u2019s in her Instagram bio and some of her Apple Music song lyrics with zeros. Those turned out to be clues for \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d which Swift announced prior to revealing the news about the full Encore set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSwifties are now waiting for the VMAs on Sunday (Sept. 27), as the pop star is planning to premiere the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/preview-taylor-swift-patient-zero-video-dakota-johnson-farrell-1236346258\/\">cinematic music video<\/a> for \u201cPatient Zero\u201d during the ceremony. In the meantime, she\u2019s released a teaser revealing that Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson costar in the visual, which she directed. Swift will receive the inaugural Artist Director Honor at the 2026 VMAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tListen to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"c-logo lrv-a-unstyle-link u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-width-100p  u-max-width-100 u-height-26 u-max-width-130px@mobile-max u-margin-t-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" title=\"Billboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-accent-l@desktop u-font-size-1205 a-font-accent-xs@mobile-max u-font-size-15@mobile-max u-line-height-22px@mobile-max lrv-u-text-align-center@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0030@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-a-00 u-padding-t-0125@mobile-max u-padding-b-0063@mobile-max\">Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-button lrv-u-cursor-pointer lrv-u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-background-color-black:hover lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover u-padding-lr-0.875 u-padding-tb-10 lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-align-items-center a-font-basic-fancy-xs u-margin-t-0.188 u-margin-b-0188 u-margin-b-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/preferences.mail.billboard.com\/preferences\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\tSign Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is back for one last twirl under the spotlight for The Life of a Showgirl, dropping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,497,216,498],"class_list":["post-859997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}