doesnt really matter if she drops music i dont care for cus i heard this at 7 and immediately swore a blood oath. im in this cult for life https://t.co/7zJqW7rXrx
About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore including four new songs is out on Friday and available to pre-order and save now at https://t.co/bWaNOQ6OmT ❤️🔥
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
As a lapsed Star Wars fan I really think it’s all just the Rise of Skywalker. It was not only calamitous but nonsensical, insulting and because it was the climax of the trilogy it made people feel like their yearslong emotional investment in the sequels had been a waste of time.
My simple take is that the franchise badly needs to get back to feeling huge, emotional, romantic, tragic and genuinely larger than life again. The spin-offs and “underworld” shit is cute but it only fully lands if there’s a central mythic story holding everything together
Young kids connection to Star Wars is the Sequels. DLF has spent 7 years pretending they don’t exist. They torpedoed the third film in the sequels trying to make angry gen X men happy. They’ve spent the better part of a decade trying desperately to appeal to angry gen X men
Tonight all these lives converge here
The mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears
Where fraternal souls sing identical things
And it’s beautiful
It’s rapturous.
It is frightening.
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I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait.
If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain...
The Life of a Showgirl is out now.
https://t.co/VetltwlcoJ
Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott