Taylor Swift Stays Onstage: The Showgirl Gets an Encore
Four new songs, one changed ending, and a deluxe edition that behaves like a real album. Taylor Swift Released September 24, 2026 55 minutes 16 tracks At a glance Album The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore Artist Taylor Swift Release date September 24, 2026 Runtime 55 minutes Track count 16 (twelve on Disc 1, four on Disc 2) A second act, not a rewrite The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore is sixteen songs and fifty-five minutes, split across two "discs": the twelve-track album as it first appeared, then four more from the same sessions. Nothing here has been rethought. The mood is the same mood, the collaborators are the same collaborators, and the songs arrive in the same order until they don't. And yet the record is worth hearing end to end, because those four additions at the back change what the album does when it finishes. The album's page describes this as an expanded edition and places the original Life of a Showgirl as Swift's twelfth full-length — the one t...