Oct. 3, 2025

🚨 BONUS 1AM EPISODE: TAYLOR SWIFT BREAKS THE INTERNET!! LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL DROPS FOR ALL!

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🚨 BONUS 1AM EPISODE: Album dropped at midnight ET - we stayed up so you didn't have to (but you did anyway)!

💿 12 TRACKS OF POP PERFECTION: Max Martin & Shellback reunion - flew to Sweden between Eras stops!

😭 "ELDEST DAUGHTER" DESTROYING FANS: "10 seconds in and my whole life changed" - early reactions pouring in!

🎯 TARGET MIDNIGHT CHAOS: 4 exclusive editions - pink shimmer vinyl SOLD OUT - lines wrapped around stores!

🎬 THEATER PARTY STARTS 3PM: 89-minute "soirée" - "Fate of Ophelia" music video world premiere - $12 tickets!

📺 MEDIA BLITZ BEGINS: Graham Norton tonight UK, Fallon Monday, Seth Meyers "TAY/kover" Wednesday!

💎 ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S SON APPROVES: "Rare positive role model" - assistant says they would've been friends!

🎵 GEORGE MICHAEL ESTATE "DELIGHTED": "Father Figure" interpolation approved - "George would have felt the same"!

✨ SABRINA CARPENTER DUET: Title track collab - first duet for both artists on album closer!

🧡 ORANGE EVERYWHERE: DoorDash 12% off, KitchenAid mixer, Uber $12 off with SHOWBIZ code!

📝 WILD LYRICS REVEALED: "You wanna take a skate on the ice inside my veins?" - Times Square billboards!

🏈 TRAVIS "DANCING THROUGH HOUSE": Calls "Opalite" favorite - says album good for working out!

📊 GUINNESS WORLD RECORD: 1.3M simultaneous New Heights viewers - biggest podcast audience ever!

🚪 ORANGE DOOR EASTER EGG: Final Eras show exit revealed as album hint - "entering new era"!

🎓 STUDIED IN COLLEGES: Michigan State analyzing in real-time - Vermont shop created 9 Swift ice cream flavors!

🎤 ACCENT EVOLUTION PROVEN: Scientists tracked voice changes Nashville→NYC - pitch lowered for authority!

💕 TAYLOR'S INSTAGRAM POETRY: "Mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears" - thanked Max & Shellback!

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Calarucashawk Media. Oh my God, Swift Ease.

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Welcome to an emergency bonus episode of Taylor Swift Today.

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I'm your host, Ali, and it is currently chex clock

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one am Eastern Time, and the Life of a Showgirl

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is officially out.

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I couldn't sleep.

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I had to stay up for this, and I've been

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following all the live updates, so you didn't have to. Though.

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Let's be real, I know most of you are awake

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right now too, streaming like your life depends on it. First,

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I need to apologize if any of this info is

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rushed or if I get anything wrong. We're recording this

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in real time at one am because we had to

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capture this moment. We'll be back Sunday with more fan

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reactions and deeper analysis, but right now, it's all about

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the excitement of this historic night. The album dropped exactly

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at midnight Eastern Time, twelve tracks of pure pop perfection.

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Taylor reunited with Max Martin and Shellback for this album,

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The masterminds behind We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

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twenty two, Shake It Off, Blank Space, Don't Blame Me,

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and Delicate. She literally flew back and forth to Sweden

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between aristour stops because, as she says, jet lag is

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a choice. Social media is exploding. One user posted okay

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ten seconds in, and my whole life changed. People are

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losing it over eldest daughter, with multiple fans saying I

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fear I was correct about eldest daughter. I am ruined,

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and eldest daughter has me with watery eyes. The Max

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Martin and Shellback production is getting massive praise, with fans

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screaming Max Martin, the virtuoso you are in all caps.

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Taylor just posted on Instagram with a photo dump of

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her in shimmery showgirl outfits.

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The caption is cryptic poetry.

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Tonight, all these lives converge here, the mosaics of laughter

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and cocktails of tears, where fraternal souls sing identical things.

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And it's beautiful, it's rapturous, it is frightening. She ended

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with I can't tell you how proud I am to

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share this with you, an album that just feels so right.

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A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends,

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Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait.

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The New York Times review dropped right at midnight, and

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they're calling it a confident, dazzling at times, elegant at times,

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cheeky at times sensual pop explosion, and her eiras tour

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Victory Lap. They're especially praising how the album examines both

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her relationships and her fame in a deeply personal yet

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relatable way. Elizabeth Taylor apparently has thumping rock vibes that

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can understandably be reserved for the uber famous showgirls in

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the room.

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Can we talk about the chaos at Target stores? Tonight?

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Select stores stayed open until one am for midnight releases.

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They had four exclusive editions, It's Beautiful, It's Frightening, Its Rapturous,

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and the Summertime Sprits Pink Shimmer vinyl with gold Shimmer

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poem written by Taylor and never before seen photos. The

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purchase limit was for per customer and people were camping

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out for hours. The pink and pale yellow purlescent vinyl

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with gold shimmers sold out on pre orders and limited

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quantities were available in store only. Let me break down

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this incredible track list. We've got the Fate of Ophelia,

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which is getting the music video treatment in theaters and

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literary Swifties pointed out that in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia drowns

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in Act four, scene seven. Is that why Taylor kept

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mentioning forty seven throughout promotion? She thanked Jason for screaming

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for forty seven seconds and joke the Eiras tour was

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in forty seven thousand countries. Elizabeth Taylor is track two

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and Christopher Wilding, Elizabeth Taylor's son, told TMZ he views

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Swift as.

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A rare, positive role model for you young girls.

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Elizabeth Taylor's former assistant Tim Mendelssohn said, I think she

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would have loved Taylor Swift.

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I think they could have been friends.

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He called it a huge tribute to Taylor and said

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he's excited for people to discover Elizabeth's activism and humanitarian work.

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Father Figure, on track four interpolates George Michael's nineteen eighty

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seven hit. His estate said they were delighted when Swift

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requested approval and wrote, when we heard the track, we

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had no hesitation in agreeing to this association between two

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great artists, and we know George would have felt the same.

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They wish Taylor's success with the album. The Sabrina Carpenter

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collab on the title track is Everything. Swift called it

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a first for both of them as a duet, and

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fans are wondering if Carpenter will get the Lonna Delray treatment.

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Eldest Daughter is the longest at four oh six, with

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the Sabrina collab close behind at four oh one. Travis

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has been gushing about this album non stop. He said

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he been dancing all throughout the house while listening and

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called Opaallite his favorite track. He also said Showgirl is

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a good album to work out too. He described all

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twelve tracks as bangers and said, I keep listening to

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this album and I know she mentioned that it's going

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to be a lot more pop beats and everything, but

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it's just it's still so poetic. The theater release is

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going to be insane. The official release party of A

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Showgirl starts today at three pm Eastern. It's eighty nine

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minutes with the world premiere of the Fate of Ophelia

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music video, behind the scenes footage, lyric videos, and Tailor's

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never before seen personal reflections. Tickets are twelve dollars because

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it's her twelfth album with twelve tracks. The special pricing

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at twelve dollars not thirteen, has taken on larger meeting

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in her Life of a Showgirl Era AMC said you

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can sing and dance during the screenings, but you can't

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stand on seats or block aisles. They're enhancing security and

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do doing bag checks all weekend. It's showing at all

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five hundred forty AMC locations plus thousands more screens, including

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Cinemark and Regal. The listening parties happening right now are legendary.

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One swifty Ben Stafford decked out his apartment with orange

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balloons and teal streamers, printed album art and made T shirts.

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They're serving apparol sprits, cocktails and bites of a Showgirl

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with orange candy and cupcakes with orange icing.

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This is a tradition for them every album drop.

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Graham Norton got early access and is airing the interview

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tonight in the UK at ten forty pm local time.

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She's appearing alongside actors Cillian Murphy, Greta Lee, Jody Turner

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Smith and Dominall Gleeson, with Lewis Capaldi performing. Then Monday,

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she's on Fallon for the seventh time with Carrie Russell

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and the Format performing. Wednesday is the takeover of Seth Meyers,

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where she's the only guest. The Spotify pop up in

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New York revealed incredible lyrics. Oftentimes it doesn't feel so

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glamorous to be me, and everyone's unbothered till they're not.

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We're projected on billboards in Times Square, La Vegas, and

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San Paulo. Other lyrics included keep it one hundred, I

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heard you calling and you want to take a skate

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on the ice inside my veins written on a napkin

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under a wineglass, overflowing with pearls. Door Dash is giving

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twelve percent off orange items. KitchenAid unveiled a one of

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a kind glittery orange mixer. Uber is offering twelve dollars

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off comfort rides with Code Showbiz because showgirls deserve extra

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room and a flawless arrival. They're also doing show Cats

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adoption events in La NYC And Nashville with charm, jewelry making,

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and photo booths. Apple Music launched a dedicated Swifty radio

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station just for the album release. The album is forty

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one minutes total, perfect for endless replays. Taylor said she

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wanted melodies that were so infectious that you're almost angry

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at it, and lyrics that are vivid but crisp and

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focused and completely intentional.

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The way she created this album is legendary.

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She recalled performing a Max Martin medley at the Stockholm

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Era show, dedicating her acoustic set to songs they'd worked

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on together. He knew how high the stakes would be

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if we were to work together again. She said that

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performance is what locked it in. New Heights shared the

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coolest listening hack. If you start rewatching their Swift episode

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at ten thirty one fifty two pm Eastern Time, you

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end up streaming the album at the exact moment Swift

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pulls out the album on the podcast.

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That's dedication to the experience.

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Fun fact, Taylor's New Heights appearance set a Guinness World

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record with one point three million people simultaneously tuned in

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on YouTube. The two hour podcast covered everything from their

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love story to reclaiming her masters. The orange theme is everywhere.

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Taylor said she chose orange because it feels like, kind

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of energetically how my life has felt, and the album

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is about what was going on behind the scenes in

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my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant

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and electric and vibrant. She revealed a major easter egg

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every Eras show ended with her going down the elevator

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lift except the last one, where she exited through an

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orange door. I wanted to give a little subliminal hint

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that I may be leaving the airas tour era, but

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I was also entering a new era.

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Even Caitlin Clark plugged.

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The album at her press conference today, thanking the media

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then adding the album plug, She's proven herself a true

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swiftye more in a moment, a Vermont ice cream shop

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created nine flavors inspired by Taylor's past albums to celebrate

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Michigan State University's society and the individual the Taylor Swift

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Phenomenon course, will analyze the album right away, Professor Emily

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Muhitch said, we will get to apply our interdisciplinary analysis

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to the album and the media reaction right away. The

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study about Taylor's accent evolution is fascinating. Researchers analyzed her

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interviews from two thousand and eight to twenty nineteen and

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found her vowel pronunciation aligned with Southern dialect in Nashville,

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returned to native accent in Philadelphia, and her voice took

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on a significantly lower pitch in NYC. When she was

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more outspoken about social issues, possibly intentional to convey her

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competence to speak with authority.

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Will this break her own records?

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The Tortured Poets Department had the biggest opening week of

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her career and spent seventeen weeks at number one. With

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the theater release exclusive variance and this level of hype,

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the Life of a Showgirl could surpass everything.

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And here's the thing.

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Taylor has said this album won't get the daylux treatment

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like Midnight's three Am edition TTPD becoming the anthology at

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two Am. But she's always known to have a few

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tricks up her sleeve. Could we still get surprised? It's

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Taylor Swift, anything is possible. The fact that she announced

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in May she successfully purchased her masters from Shamrock Capital

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makes this album even more meaningful. It's her first completely

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new album where she owns everything From day one. I'm

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literally vibrating with excitement. The album artwork by Myrt and Marcus,

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showing Taylor seemingly submerged while wearing a jeweled top, is

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being called the most glamorous visual aesthetic of her career.

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Go stream the album right now. Get your theater tickets

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for three pm. Physical copies are at Target if they're

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not sold out. This is history being made. Taylor Swift

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Today now has an official Facebook community. Share your first reactions,

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favorite tracks, and theater experiences.

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We're all losing our minds together.

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Search Taylor Swift Today on Facebook or check out Instagram.

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We'll be back Sunday with full fan reactions, chart predictions,

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and deeper analysis. But right now go listen to the

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life of a showgirl. This is Ali at one fifteen am,

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running on pure adrenaline, signing off, Happy showgirl Day, Swifties,