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HAVE YOU BEEN LONGING FOR TAYLOR SWIFT? We enter the era of the Orange Showgirl in October The world stood still for a moment on 12 th August, when Taylor Swift announced her 12 th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl A t precisely 12:12 a.m. EST on 12 th August, the world’s biggest pop star announced her latest, 12 th album, live on the New Heights podcast that’s co-hosted by her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason. The new al- bum will be dominated by the colour or- ange and appropriately entitled The Life of a Showgirl. Swift’s team had posted a series of pic- tures featuring the colour orange four days ahead of the announcement, hint- ing at the arrival of a “new era”. Her web- site also featured an orange countdown that ended at midnight — and at that very moment the site collapse due to the weight of traffic. In her podcast ap- pearance, Swift produced a mint green briefcase sporting the initials ‘T.S.’ and opened it to reveal the name of the al- bum. The release date was only revealed a day later as being 3 rd October 2025, with four themed deluxe CD editions also re- leased, each with its own artwork aes- thetic: “Sweat and Vanilla Perfume” (or- ange), “It’s Frightening” (dark red), “It’s Rapturous” (purple) and “It’s Beautiful” (white). Swift also announced a collabo- ration with Sabrina Carpenter on the ti- tle track The Life of a Showgirl, while she also touched on an old combination by confirming that the album had the same producers as her Red, 1989 and Reputa- tion albums. Her podcast appearance provided an op- portunity to speak candidly about many
Opsednutost hlebom Svift je otkrila da bi se njeni hobi- ji mogli svrstati među one koje je imao neko u 18. veku. Voli da šije, slika, kuva i svakih šest meseci ima „opsesiju pe- čenja druge vrste jela“. Naravno, Tre- vis je odmah dobacio da je zbog toga „najsreć niji čovek na svetu“. – Kiselo testo sada gospodari mojim životom. Zapravo, o hlebu pričam 60 odsto vremena. To mi je postalo veo- ma, veoma važno... Ma, čak sam i na blogovima o kiselom testu! Postoji ce- la zajednica! BREAD OBSESSION Swift revealed that her personal inter- ests could be categorised as “hobbies you could have had in the 1700s”. That’s because she likes to sew, paint and cook, and has “a different baking obses- sion every six months”. Travis, of course, immediately quipped that this is why he’s “the luckiest man in the world”. “Sourdough has taken over my life. I’m really talking about bread 60% of the time now. It’s become a huge, huge factor. I’m on sourdough blogs; there’s a whole community of us!”
aspects of her life. Enjoying the time with her boyfriend, she casually discussed how they met, but also the personal re- percussions of the Eras tour — a mara- thon 21-month tour that included 149 concerts and yielded more than two bil- lion dollars and record titles, but also rep- resented “constant physical excursion”. Preparations for her three-hour perfor- mances included running on a treadmill while singing the entire set list. Taylor re- vealed that she’d been in a constant state of physical discomfort, including foot pain and multiple blisters, and had recov- ered in the tour’s aftermath with the help of acupuncture and physiotherapy. She nevertheless stressed that the new album had been inspired by everything that had happened behind the scenes on the Eras tour, to which her boyfriend added that he sees the project unfolding, saying “it’s so fun, and unfortunately has only 12 hits. It’s a lot more upbeat; a lot more fun pop excitement and a complete 180 from a lot of the songs on Tortured Poets for sure”. So, if you love Taylor Swift, who’s un- doubtedly the biggest star of our time, mark the date of 3 rd October, though the album can already be preordered.
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