Taylor Swift reveals the image millions of people have been waiting for

Thursday, 14 August 2025 10:31

She also announced the album's release date is just a few weeks away.

After almost 24 hours of intense fanfare Taylor Swift has revealed the cover and release date for her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.

It shows Swift, 35, lying in a pool of water dressed in a rhinestone-encrusted bodysuit and with her face partly submerged.

She also announced the album's release date is October 3, 2025, just 50 days away.

Details about the new album hit Swift's official website at 9am AEST after another online countdown like the one she used to tease the album announcement yesterday.

Photos from the site show Swift decked out in classic showgirl attire, from jewelled headdresses to feathered sleeves.

She also released four limited edition deluxe versions of the CD for pre-sale: the Sweat and Vanilla Perfume Edition, It's Frightening Edition, It's Rapturous Edition and It's Beautiful Edition.

The Life of a Showgirl will feature 12 tracks with titles like Elizabeth Taylor, Father Figure, Eldest Daughter and CANCELLED!.

The titular track will also feature popstar Sabrina Carpenter, who opened for Swift on the Australian leg of her mammoth Eras Tour in 2024.

Taylor Swift poses for The Life of a Showgirl

Here's the full The Life of a Showgirl tracklist:

The Fate of Ophelia
Elizabeth Taylor
Opalite
Father Figure
Eldest Daughter
Ruin the Friendship
Actually Romantic
Wi$h Li$t
Wood
CANCELLED!
Honey
The Life of a Showgirl (Feat. Sabrina Carpenter)

Fans were surprised to discover the tracklist matched that of a leaked vinyl alleged to be an early copy of Swift's 12th album which circulated online earlier this year.

Swift's album cover reveal also coincided with her appearance on New Heights, the podcast her boyfriend Travis Kelce co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce.

There she revealed a physical copy of The Life of a Showgirl vinyl, which she pulled out of a briefcase emblazoned with her initials.

Swift's new album will drop less than a year after she wrapped up her global Eras Tour, which ran from March 17, 2023 until December 8, 2024.

She played 49 shows across 21 months and five continents, and recorded her largest ever when she performed to 96,000 fans at the MCG in Melbourne.

Less than six months after wrapping up the tour, Swift hit another milestone when she bought back the master recordings to her first six albums.

It meant she had control over her entire catalogue for the first time and would no longer need to re-record her self-titled debut album or her sixth album Reputation.

Some fans had hoped that she would release previously unheard 'vault tracks' from those albums as bonus content with her latest record but so far those theories appear to be unfounded.

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