{"id":3690,"date":"2025-09-23T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:07:13","slug":"taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-3oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-3oct\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Taylor Swift \u2013 <em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>, out 3 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2510\/TaylorSwift.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>\u2019s 12th studio album, <strong><em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em><\/strong>, really needs no introduction. This is Swift\u2019s first new album since announcing that she bought back her masters, giving her complete ownership of her musical catalogue and effectively rendering her \u2018Taylor\u2019s Version\u2019 project moot. The album\u2019s cover art was inspired by her behind-the-scenes experience of the Eras Tour: \u201c<em>My day ends with me in a bathtub, not usually in a bedazzled dress,<\/em>\u201d she said. \u201c<em>I wanted to glamourise all the different aspects of how the tour felt. The reason I wanted to have an offstage moment as the main album cover is because the album isn\u2019t really about what happened to me onstage, but what I was going through offstage.<\/em>\u201d The 12 songs include a duet with Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>orange glitter vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, really needs no introduction. This is Swift\u2019s first new album since announcing that she bought back her masters, giving her complete ownership of her musical catalogue and effectively rendering her \u2018Taylor\u2019s Version\u2019 project moot. The album\u2019s cover art was inspired by her behind-the-scenes experience of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,418],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}