"The Life of a Showgirl" follows Swift's 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which was released on April 19, 2024. The album came with a surprise for fans at 2 a.m. at the time, when Swift dropped an additional 15 songs.

Well, Swifties, we weren't clowning this time. After months of theorizing we'd get a new album from Taylor Swift called Karma this year, and that the album color would be orange, Taylor broke the internet when a countdown took over her website — and then she announced her 12th album,