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Taylor Swift shares inspiration behind new album 'The Life of a Showgirl'

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E. Kristhoff Cagape

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<p>Taylor Swift shared the inspiration behind her upcoming studio album <em>The Life of a Showgirl.</em></p><p>In an interview on the <em>New Heights</em> podcast, the global pop star relayed that the album tells the story of her life offstage.</p><p>&quot;This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during [the<em> Eras</em>]<em></em> tour,<em></em> which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant,&quot; she said. &quot;It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervescence has come through on this record.&quot;</p><p>The singer shared that she created the album alongside music producers Max Martin and Shellback whom she considers her mentors. They previously worked together in hit tracks like &quot;We Are Never Getting Back Together,&quot; &quot;Blank Space,&quot; &quot;Shake It Off,&quot; and &quot;Delicate.&quot; The last time they have worked together was on Taylor&#x27;s <em>Reputation</em> album.</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;ve never actually made an album before where it&#x27;s just the three of us. There&#x27;s no other collaborators. It&#x27;s just the three of us making a focused album were it felt like catching lightning in a bottle,&quot; she said. &quot;These guys, they are just geniuses in different avenues, in different ways.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DNUBdFRh7CY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=="></a></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DNUBdFRh7CY/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A226806.5%2C%22ls%22%3A43244.800000000745%2C%22le%22%3A43251.800000000745%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="746" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>Taylor recorded the album in Sweden with the music producers in between breaks during the<em> Eras Tour</em>.</p><p>The &quot;Blank Space&quot; hitmaker relayed that <em>The Life of a Showgirl</em> will only have 12 tracks which is far from what she envisioned for her previous album <em>The Tortured Poets Department.</em></p><p>&quot;With<em> Tortured Poets Department</em>, I was like here’s a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here’s 31 songs. This is 12. There’s not a thirteenth, there’s not other ones coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,&quot; she highlighted.</p><p>&quot;I also wanted it to be every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn&#x27;t take one out and it be the same album, you couldn’t add one and be… It&#x27;s just right,&quot; she added.</p><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNUKvV3BWpw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=="></a></div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-4" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNUKvV3BWpw/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A4%2C%22os%22%3A243738.80000000075%2C%22ls%22%3A43244.800000000745%2C%22le%22%3A43251.800000000745%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="665" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-4" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>She further described that the tracks in the album feels like puzzle pieces that fit perfectly together.  </p><p>&quot;That focus and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. I tend to write lots and lots of music, so it&#x27;s a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes, I wanted to do an album that was so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together like a perfect puzzle that these 12 songs for my 12th album, I feel like we achieved that and I’m really happy about that,&quot; she said.</p><p>She went on: “I tend to write lots and lots of music, so it’s a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes, I wanted to do an album that was so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together like a perfect puzzle that these 12 songs for my 12th album, I feel like we achieved that and I’m really happy about that.&quot;</p><p><em>The Life of A Showgirl </em>will be released on October 3.</p><p>The 12 tracks are as follows:</p><p>&quot;The Fate of Ophelia&quot;</p><p>&quot;Elizabeth Taylor&quot;</p><p>&quot;Opalite&quot;</p><p>&quot;Father Figure&quot;</p><p>&quot;Eldest Daughter&quot;</p><p>&quot;Ruin the Friendship&quot;</p><p>&quot;Actually Romantic&quot;</p><p>&quot;Wi$h Li$t&quot;</p><p>&quot;Wood&quot;</p><p>&quot;Cancelled!&quot;</p><p>&quot;Honey&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Life of a Showgirl&quot; ft. Sabrina Carpenter</p>