Taylor Swift Made ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ While on the Eras Tour: ‘I Was Physically Exhausted’

Taylor Swift was hard at work on The Life of a Showgirl while she brought her massive Eras Tour to Europe. In her New Heights podcast interview on Wednesday, the singer revealed that she was flying to Sweden during breaks of the run to make her 12th studio album.

“I would be playing shows. I would do like three shows in a row. I’d have three days off,” she explained as the Kelce brothers freaked out. “I’d fly to Sweden, go back to the tour, and was actually working on this. I was physically exhausted at this point in the tour, but I was so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating.”

Swift wrapped her Eras Tour in December 2024 after a whopping 149 shows across the world. She spent the summer of 2024 touring in Europe, including eight shows in London in June and August.

“This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant,” she said elsewhere on the podcast. “It just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life. And so that effervescence has come through on this record.”

Earlier in the episode, Swift unveiled the track list for the record on her social media. “And, baby, that’s show business for you,” she wrote on X, revealing the release date of Oct. 3.

Swift also shared the album cover for the record, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, which sees the singer floating underwater with the title displayed in an orange font.

The Life of a Showgirl features 12 tracks, including the title track, which features Sabrina Carpenter. Also featured on the record — co-produced by Swift with Shellback and Max Martin — are tracks such as “Eldest Daughter,” “Actually Romantic,” “Wi$h Li$t,” and opening track, “The Fate of Ophelia.”

The Life of a Showgirl is the 12th studio album from Swift, who last released an album in 2024, The Tortured Poets Department. 

From Rolling Stone US.