Taylor Swift Releases Four New Songs on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore: Stream

Taylor Swift has released an expanded edition of her 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl, titled The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. This new version includes four brand-new songs: "Patient Zero," "Cleveland!," "Pink Clouding," and "Babylon." According to Stereogum, these tracks were written with collaborators Max Martin and Shellback after Swift visited them in Sweden to celebrate the original album's success.

The new album is the latest in a series of expansions of the original LP, which already had multiple variants. Pitchfork reports that since the release of Showgirl, Swift has been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry, and also released a song called "I Knew It, I Knew You" for Toy Story 5.

Swift will also be receiving the inaugural "Artist Director Honors" award at the MTV VMAs on Sunday, where a video teaser for her new single "Patient Zero" will be featured, starring Swift, Colin Farrell, and Dakota Johnson.

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