People: The next “era”: Swift announces surprisingly new album

With Taylor Swift, little is left to chance. The US Megastar surprisingly announced a new record entitled “The Life of A Show Girl” – and your fans with a mysterious countdown on her website tuned you on it. On August 12th at twelve minutes after midnight it was clear: there is a twelfth studio album.

The Swifties put the countdown in ecstasy alone. A fan wrote: “Already my favorite album and I haven’t even heard it.” Because Swift is currently considered the largest pop star in the world. The 35-year-old has now achieved such a level of celebrity that every step she takes public is a big message. A new album is a bigger one.

Her promo heated Swift by visiting her friend’s podcast, football player Travis Kelce, and his brother Jason. On social media, she published a section of the episode with the announcement in which she pulls the new album out of a suitcase.

“I wanted to show you something,” says the pop icon there. The video was clicked over a million times in a quarter of an hour. Fans are now waiting with excitement whether she reveals when the album will be released in the podcast that appears in the USA on Wednesday.

“See You Next era”: Notes on the new album

So that’s not enough. The pop star’s social media team also posted a series of pictures from Swift from Swift in red-orange glitter outfits on the stage and wrote as an allusion: “Thinking about when said” See YOU NEXT ERA … “” (“Remember when she said:” See you in the next era “”). Taylor Swift divided her work into “Eras”.

It was not until December 2024 that the singer ended her monumental “Eras Tour”. The concert series, which began in March 2023, played around $ 2 billion (around $ 1.9 billion) with more than ten million tickets sold, which makes it the most sales -strong tour of history. The tour was the “most unusual chapter” of her life so far, Swift himself had written on Instagram.

“The Life of a Showgirl” could act this

The new album could now also build on that, at least the title “The Life of a Showgirl” suggests. Swift is known for her lyrics, which is about friendship, growing up and often love or lovesickness. It is quite possible that she is now musically processed her life during the tour – the “most extraordinary chapter”.

Finally, “The Life of a Showgirl” follows another milestone in Swift’s career. After a year -long argument with her former manager and the label, she recently bought the rights to her first six albums. “To say that my biggest dream has come true, it only expresses it cautiously,” she wrote on her website to the deal.

Duet with Sabrina Carpenter?

Fans already speculate which artists may appear on the plate with a feature. One of the pictures that posted “Taylornation” shows Swift together with Sabrina Carpenter (“Espresso”) singing on stage. Another hint? In any case, many fans already long for a duet with the American singer.

The colors of the album cover also seem to be determined. Both Swift’s Instagram channel and “Taylornation” have set a green-swimming photo with an orange castle as a profile picture.

Swift’s eleventh studio album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology” was released in April 2024 and was the global most streaming album of 2024 on Spotify. The streaming provider states that the American has almost 90.4 million monthly listeners. Her music was streamed the most in 2024. SWIFT set several records on Spotify and in the German charts with the album shortly after appearance.

Fans also cheer Swift’s love life

Again and again the icon also causes a lot of attention with its private life. In July, Travis Kelce posted private photos of himself on Instagram with Taylor Swift. He had experienced “some adventures in this offseason”, the NFL player wrote next to the 13 photos that show him with family, friends and in most cases with superstar Swift at his side.

Popstar Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs player Kelce officially made their love in the summer of 2023. Since then, both have been part of the public regularly, but on his Instagram page Kelce had previously had no common photos.

Swift shared her first photo with Kelce last summer after a concert in London – both can be seen in the backstage area with the British heir to the throne Prince William and his children Prince George and Princess Charlotte.