In this Saturday edition of Business Insider Today, we’re talking about Taylor Swift’s latest album, «The Life of a Showgirl.»
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But first: Taylor’s back.’The Life of a Showgirl’
Taylor Swift is back, baby. «The Life of a Showgirl» takes listeners inside the pop star’s life when she’s not heartbroken, and instead enjoying love (Hi, Travis!) and life.
The 12-track album is «flamboyant» and «catchy», writes Business Insider’s senior pop culture writer, Callie Ahlgrim.
Swift wrote and produced her 12th studio album in Sweden last year. On the project, she reunites with Max Martin and Karl «Shellback» Schuster, the same hitmakers who created the pop anthems «Shake It Off» and «We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.» So, Swifties were just blessed with a real treat.
«‘Showgirl’ is the most brazenly pop-forward, melodically savvy, and structurally polished album that Swift has released in about a decade», Ahlgrim continues.
(BI’s Joe Ciolli, author of the upcoming First Trade newsletter, also has an interesting take about how Swift shares a lot in common with another big trend these days: artificial intelligence.)
For Swift’s part, she describes the album as «melodies that were so infectious that you’re almost angry at it, and lyrics that are just as vivid, but crisp and focused and completely intentional.»
«It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life», Swift explained. «That effervescence has come through on this record.»
Ahlgrim listened to each track on «The Life of a Showgirl», and shared her first-listen reaction. Find out which songs she loves, and which four she thinks you could skip.
