Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore’ Divides Critics: Is It ‘Terrible’ or ‘Superb’?
Critics split over the four-song expansion, with reviews ranging from scathing to praise as Swift says the reissue celebrates U.S. sales records.
- On Friday, September 25, 2026, Taylor Swift released 'The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,' a deluxe edition of her 2025 album featuring four brand-new tracks.
- The original 2025 album 'Showgirl' received disenchanted reviews, with many considering it a bottom-tier album in her two-decade career; Swift doubled down on the era regardless.
- Music editor Roisin O'Connor called the songwriting 'shockingly uneven,' while culture writer Poppie Platt labeled the new tracks 'just as derivative and flat' as the original 12 songs.
- While The Telegraph published a viral takedown with the headline 'I'm a Swiftie and even I think these new songs are terrible,' Swift told Zane Lowe, 'I welcome the chaos.'
- Maintaining her 'mastermind' persona, Swift continues prioritizing personal narrative over critical acclaim, focusing on her marriage to Travis Kelce despite the external skepticism surrounding her work.
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Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' deluxe album has 4 new songs. They range from inspired to indefensible.
Taylor Swift in a promo photo for "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore."Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott; TAS Rights ManagementOn Friday, Taylor Swift released "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore."The "Showgirl" deluxe edition includes four new songs that Swift wrote after the original's release."Patient Zero" and "Babylon" are standouts, but "Cleveland!" is one of her worst songs to date.Precious few music critics would've said that Taylor Swift's "Th…
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore’ Divides Critics: Is It ‘Terrible’ or ‘Superb’?
Critics can’t seem to agree on Taylor Swift‘s latest release, The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. After Swift, 36, dropped the deluxe edition of her 2025 album on Friday, September 25, reviews featuring a wide range of opinions on the pop superstar’s four new tracks started rolling in. The Telegraph published a scathing takedown […]
This Is A Cry For Help
At midnight, Taylor Swift released a four-song update to her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, which came out last October and had the cultural impact of a Skechers sneaker drop. Despite juicing its commercial success with several variants on the physical copies for sale, responses to the album from critics and fans alike have been lukewarm at best. Certainly nobody that I know liked hearing Travis Kelce’s dick compared to a redwood tree. On…
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