"The Life of a Showgirl" will be Swift's 12th studio album. It follows Swift's 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which was released on April 19, 2024. That album came with an extra surprise for fans when Swift dropped an additional 15 songs at 2 a.m. that same day.

Longtime Swiftie and Eras Tour opener Sabrina Carpenter can now call herself a Taylor Swift collaborator since it was revealed Wednesday night that the “Manchild” singer is featured on the final track of Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

Taylor Swift debuted the tracklist for her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, and the first song already appears to have a storied literary history. The first song on the LP, out October 3, is titled “The Fate of Ophelia,