Taylor Swift is giving Us the primary glimpses of The Lifetime of a Showgirl.
Forward of the document’s Friday, October 3, launch, the 35-year-old pop star has been dropping Easter eggs and lyrical teases in regards to the album’s tracklist.
Shortly after saying her twelfth album, Swift created a Spotify playlist titled “And child, that’s present enterprise for you” with songs she wrote with Max Martin and Shellback. The quote additionally appeared a number of instances all through Spotify’s activation in New York Metropolis, main followers to invest whether or not it’s going to seem on one of many new songs.
Different followers observed that Apple Music began capitalizing random letters within the lyric liners of 2017’s Popularity. When unscrambled, the letters spell out, “They don’t make loyalty like they used to,” which Swifties consider to be one other lyric from the album.
Swift cowrote everything of Showgirl with Martin and Shellback final yr.
“It was one thing I used to be engaged on whereas I used to be in Europe on The Eras Tour,” Swift mentioned on an August 2025 episode of fiancé Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast. “I might do three reveals in a row, [and then] I’d have three days off. I’d fly to Sweden, [then] return to the tour. I used to be bodily exhausted at this level within the tour, however I used to be so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating.”
She continued, “It meant the world to me to have this artistic expertise, the place [Max Martin, Shellback and I] knew that we needed to carry the perfect concepts we’ve ever mentioned. I additionally know the stress I’m placing on this document by saying that, however I don’t care ’trigger I like it that a lot, and I’m so pleased with it.”
Swift gushed that The Lifetime of a Showgirl was born from “probably the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place” of her life.
Swift beforehand collaborated with Martin and Shellback on her LPs Purple, 1989 and Popularity earlier than becoming a member of forces for Showgirl. She additionally credited the late George Michael on the observe “Father Determine.” Michael, who died in 2016, additionally has a 1987 tune titled “Father Determine.”
Michael’s former companion Kenny Goss informed TMZ in late September 2025 that Swift used an interpolation of the 1987 single on her album. Goss additionally informed the outlet that he believed the late singer would have permitted of the inclusion.
Hold scrolling to see which lyrics might be featured on The Lifetime of a Showgirl:
‘Oftentimes it doesn’t really feel so glamorous to be me’
The primary lyric was shared at Spotify’s pre-release activation in New York Metropolis, the place followers noticed the quote written in lipstick on a mirror and on high of a stage marquee. The road was later included on billboards in NYC, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Swifties have since found that iTunes lists this lyric on the Showgirl tune “Elizabeth Taylor.”
‘Everybody’s unbothered ’til they’re not’
One other lyric was unveiled through a billboard shared in São Paulo, Brazil, and later changed the “doesn’t really feel so glamorous” one contained in the NYC exhibit.
‘You wanna take a skate on the ice inside my veins?’
A London billboard teased the chilling lyric, which was additionally written on a serviette on the Spotify pop-up.
The Lifetime of a Showgirl might be launched Friday, October 3.
