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I've been on vacation... has anything happened in Taylor's life lately?
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Here' more of what we've learned about Taylor Swift's appearance on the New Heights podcast:
- hundreds of millions of views for this ep and hundreds of thousands of new subscribers to the show
Taylor Swift's debut on New Heights:
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) August 15, 2025
• 379M views on Instagram
• 61.6M views on X
• 34.5M views on TikTok
• 15M views on YouTube
• 1.3M live viewers
• Episode stream crashed
• Passed 3M followers on Instagram
• 400K+ new YouTube subscribers since
• Most concurrent… pic.twitter.com/zIRYCgK8UT
And was Taylor Swift hinting that she would be performing at the Superbowl halftime show? Fans are convinced she provided all the clues during her appearance on the New Heights podcast. See https://www.today.com/popculture/music/taylor-swift-super-bowl-60-halftime-show-theories-rcna225365
***Older Update below***
Here's what we learned from Taylor Swift's appearance on the New Heights Podcast:
- At one point there were 1.3 million people watching the live stream. Then it broke YouTube for a little while.
- After all the speculation, Taylor's the new album (title: The Life of a Showgirl) will be released on October 3rd.
- The album was recorded in Sweden while Taylor was in Europe on the "Eras Tour". *More on the album at https://www.taylorswift.com/
- Orange color theme... what's the deal there? Orange represents what Taylor's inner life was like during the big Eras tour. (paraphrase)
- What will the album be like, though? Taylor describes the album as bangers and upbeat.
- this album won't have multiple collector editions like some of her other records. The album is 12 tracks and that's that.
- Sourdough Bread was talked about a lot.
- Taylor talked about how she cried when she finally got back the rights to her master recordings.
More here https://www.nfl.com/news/biggest-updates-from-taylor-swift-s-appearance-on-travis-jason-kelce-s-new-heights-podcast and also here https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swifts-new-heights-podcast-live-stream-crashes-1236489031/
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Yesterday at 12:12 on Aug the 12th, Taylor Swift announced her twelfth album. If you're not a super-fan-swifty© here's what happens: people scour the background and every frame of the video looking for clues. Will Taylor Swift return to Country music? Is it going to be a complete left-turn musical style?? Will it be similar to her last album?
Some of the clues are:
- in the background there are modern art books - does that indicate a new artistic direction?
- the color orange shows up and fans are saying that orange is usually associated with jazz or electronic music. Could it be that?
Fans get serious about all the symbolic stuff. All we really learned from the announcement is that her album will be called "The Life of a Showgirl".
Everything else is speculation (yes, including the theory that Taylor may go Modern Jazz).
No release date for this new album yet. Buuuuuttttttttttttt...
The Australian version of Marie Claire Magazine did some investigating: People on Reddit think it'll come out on Friday (August 15th). Marie Claire says "there’s solid evidence she’ll drop the new album before August 30." That's because the Grammy Award eligibility deadline is August 30th.
BTW, this was a commercial-within-a-commercial because the album announcement was part of a promo for the Kelce Bros podcast (New Heights). The Taylor episode is out today (Wed 13 Aug) at 7p Eastern.
Podcast link https://lnk.to/newheightshow
Video link https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNPbaYMuypd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Article https://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-new-album-the-life-of-a-showgirl-return-to-country/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
