Are fans…ready for it?

Taylor Swift revealed that her record-breaking Eras Tour was the main inspiration behind her upcoming 12th album Life of a Showgirl while appearing on the Aug. 13 episode of New Heights with boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce.

"This album was about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour," Taylor explained during the podcast, "which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant." 

And while she described her previous album The Tortured Poets Department as a "data dump of everything I've thought, felt or experienced in two or three years," she said that Life of a Showgirl will only consist of the 12 songs and is filled with "bangers."

"It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life," Taylor continued, "so that effervescence has come through on this record."  

As for what else the "Anti-Hero" singer teased about the upcoming release? The album—produced by Taylor, her "mentor" Max Martin and Shellback—will drop on Oct. 3, and its titular track will be a collaboration with pal Sabrina Carpenter. Plus, the rest of the tracklist will include songs called "The Fate of Ophelia," "Elizabeth Taylor," "Opalite," "Father Figure," "Eldest Daughter," "Ruin the Friendship," "Actually Romantic," "Wi$h Li$t," "Wood," "Cancelled!" and "Honey."

"We've never actually made an album before where it's just the three of us," Taylor said of working with Max and Shellback, who previously produced hits for her such as "Blank Space" and "Delicate," among others. "It felt like catching lightning in a bottle, honestly." 

"When I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the show and I was talking to him and I was like, 'I just feel like we could knock it out of the park if we just went back in,'" she added, quipping, "I essentially said I want to be as proud of an album as I am of the Eras Tour and he was like, 'Do you understand how much pressure that is?'"

Fans first started to suspect the announcement of a new Taylor album after New Heights confirmed she would be the guest of their Aug. 13 episode.  

“Such a nice color on you,” Taylor told Travis, who was wearing a baby blue cut-off sweatshirt, in the preview shared to social media. The Kansas City Chiefs star responded with “Yes, I know. It’s the color of your eyes, sweetie. That’s why we match so well.”  

The singer-songwriter excitedly added, “We’re about to do a f--king podcast!”

After the preview was posted, an orange and mint green countdown clock appeared on Taylor’s website, leading up to another snippet of her appearance on New Heights posted to social media at 12:12am ET on Aug. 12. 

"So I wanted to show you something," Taylor teased to the camera, unlocking a mint green briefcase with “T.S.” written in orange. "This is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl."

While it’s been over a year since Taylor released her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, she has certainly kept busy.

The “Anti-Hero” singer wrapped up her massively successful The Eras Tour in December 2024 and in May 2025, she bought back the master recordings of her first six albums after a years-long battle to own her masters.

"To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it," Taylor penned in a letter posted to her website to announce the news. "To my fans, you know how important this has been to me - so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released 4 of my albums, calling them Taylor's Version. The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music." 

"I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to,” Taylor continued, "but have never owned until now."

For more from Taylor's personal interview on New Heights, keep reading. 

As the couple's love story goes, Travis Kelce landed on the Taylor Swift's radar when he shared his frustrations in failing to give her a friendship bracelet with his number on it at Eras Tour's Arrowhead Stadium stop on a July 2023 New Heights podcast episode.

Well, according to Taylor, Travis "didn't even reach out" to her management to set up a possible meeting in the first place.

"He thought because he knows the elvator lady, that he could talk to her and just talk to her about getting down to my dressing room," she quipped in an August 2025 New Heights episode. "He really was just like, 'I know a guy. I can figure this out.'"

As for the friendship bracelent, Taylor said she's still "never seen the original."

The Grammy winner admittedly fumbled on asking the Kansas City Chiefs tight end a football question during their first date.

"I legitimately asked him what it was like when the Chiefs played the Eagles in the Super Bowl and he looked across the field," Taylor recalled, "and saw his brother standing five feet away from him on the field."

Two years later, Taylor realized it was an "insane question" to ask since the brothers were never on the field at the same time due to their  positions. Still, she said Travis kindly and patiently explained the game to her during their date.

"He was like, 'Actually, I'm on the offense and my brother is on the offense. I'm only on the field the same time as the defense,'" she recounted. "I thought everyone was on there at the same time."

“A huge green flag,” Taylor noted, “is that Travis has had the same friends since he was probably 4 years old. And he's incredibly good at maintaining friendships and he’s so loyal and his friends are equally loyal.”

And after bonding with his pals in the NFL box at Arrowhead Stadium, she added, “They’re the funniest most hilarious group of people.”

And Taylor’s game day behavior impressed Travis, too.

“You wanna talk about green flags?” he quipped. “The first game she went to, the Bears game, she literally went through the front door of the stadium, though general admission."

”That move immediately convinced him she was down to become part of Chiefs Kingdom: “I was just like, ‘Oh, she’s just in it. She’s down for the ride. She’s here for the fun.’”

Another thing Taylor appreciates about her NFL star boyfriend? The fact that he didn't judge her for her lack of football knowledge.

"You're so nonjudgemental about people and you weren't judgmental about the fact I knew nothing about the world you were in," she told Travis. "I didn't know what a first down was. I didn’t know what a tight end was."

And while Travis responded, "I am forever thankful for you diving into the football world whole-heartedly," Taylor noted she did more than dive in.

"I became obsessed with it," she said. "My friends were like, 'Who body snatched you?'"

Travis detailed the exact moment he knew he wanted to date Taylor, telling her on his podcast, "If I would have never gone to that show and been mesmerized and just been captivated, and then left with such a desire to want to meet you, I would have never went on here and told everybody how butt hurt I was.”

Explaining how he was "so engulfed in the curiosity" of Taylor, the athlete continued, "You see how crazy you can get an entire stadium going, And then I get you in a room and it’s like I’ve known you forever.”

It was a sentiment shared by Taylor, who responded, "I felt the same exact way about you.”

“Whatever Andy Reid says, we’re gonna stand by,” Taylor responded. “That’s what happened.”

She revealed that her dad Scott Swift has been longtime friends with the Kansas City Chiefs coach, so Andy has been coming to her concerts for years.

Noting that her dad “is the most social man who’s ever been born,” Taylor explained that she’s “always had a really positive vibe” when interacting with Andy.

“I didn’t really know what the sports were that he was doing but I knew that that was my dad’s friend Andy Reid,” she added. “I now know that he is the most iconic, legendary coach of all time.”

"I'd say all my hobbies could be categorized ashobbies you could have had in the 1700s," Taylor quipped. "I like to sew—I specialize in children's purses and baby blankets. I love to paint. I love to cook."

In fact, she admitted that she has a "different baking obsession every six months," with sourdough being the one that's "taken up my life" during the episode's recording.

"I'm always baking bread and texting my friends like, 'Can I send you some bread?,'" Taylor added. "I'm on sourdough blogs. There's a whole community of us, and I didn't know it."

Speaking about her love of baking, the "Blank Space" singer shared she's been working creating a new variety of sourdough bread for Jason and wife Kylie Kelce's young daughters Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett and Finnley.

“There’s one I've been workshopping for the girls because they love everything rainbow: Funfetti sourdough," she revealed. "Because they love sprinkles. We put sprinkles in everything when we hang out."

Bread aside, Taylor also bonded with Jason's girls through her cats Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benajmin Button.

"It was actually really a great challenge, because as soon as I got the kids around the cats, it was my goal to prove to them that they weren’t poisonous,” she shared. "And there’s no better way to prove that than to just hand them Benjamin, my rag-doll cat, who lets humans hold him like he’s a baby.”

Taylor bought the master recordings of her first six albums—Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation—in May 2025 after a years-long battle to obtain them.

Before striking the deal with Shamrock Capital, the "Bad Blood" artist had her mom Andrea Swift and brother Austin Swift handle the negotiations "rather than send lawyers or management in a big crew."

"They told [Shamrock] the whole story of all the times we’ve tried to buy it," Taylor tearfully recounted, "all the times it’s fallen through, all the times we had gotten plans together and figured out something we thought was gonna work and then it didn’t at the last minute."

"There's dos and don'ts," she noted. "I'm never going to plant an Easter egg that ties back to my personal life. It's always going to be towards music, something I have coming up."

And while she jokingly admitted that the practice have become "a little Zodiac killer," Taylor said she'll keep dropping clue as long as fans enjoy them.

"I want Easter eggs to be a certain thing where if you are a part of the fandom and you want to experience music in a normal way, then then you don't even see these," she said. "If you know, you know."

According to Taylor, the idea of having Travis join her on stage all started out as a joke.

"It was a 'wouldn't it be funny if' kind of thing," she explained. "But the fact that when when we were talking about it, I saw that little twinkle in [his] eye.'"

But for Travis, it was anything but a joke. As he noted, "I was serious in a terrifying fashion."

The "Cruel Summer" hitmaker recorded her 12th studio album with producers Max Martin and Shellback during the European leg of her Eras Tour. According to Taylor, she would fly to Sweden to record whenever there was a multi-day break in between shows.

"This album was about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour," she explained, "which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant." 

That's why Taylor said the album is filled with "bangers." 

"It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life," she added, "so that effervescence has come through on this record."  

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