Back To ‘Life’: Taylor Swift Announces New Album

Taylor Swift in Brazil, November 2023 (photo: Buda Mendes / TAS23 / Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

She’s back! Taylor Swift has announced a new album, The Life of a Showgirl, and has begun taking pre-orders for it on her web site, but it seems more information will have to wait until her appearance tomorrow (Aug. 13) on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast.

The news follows a day of teases on social media, culminating in the release of an image of Swift holding the upcoming album’s blurred cover. So far, no other details have emerged about The Life of a Showgirl, which is the follow-up to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department. Pre-order pages for vinyl, CD and cassette versions do not list a release date, and say only that the items will ship before Oct. 13.

— New Heights (@newheightshow) August 12, 2025

In late June, Swift gave her first public performance since the fall 2024 conclusion of her Eras Tour at Nashville’s 1,200-capacity Brooklyn Bowl, as she hopped onstage during a Kane Brown-led benefit for an impromptu version of her hit “Shake It Off.”

She had been off the road this year while working on new material and completing the acquisition of the rights to her entire music catalog, which were controversially sold to a third party in 2019.