{"id":103702,"date":"2025-10-05T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103702\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:38:09","slug":"sarah-breen-im-no-swiftie-but-after-listening-to-the-life-of-a-showgirl-i-may-be-converted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103702\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Breen:\u00a0I\u2019m no Swiftie \u2013\u00a0but after listening to &#8216;The Life of a Showgirl&#8217;, I may be converted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFans lose their minds whenever Taylor Swift releases new music, and it\u2019s no wonder: her songs are like a Christmas Day EastEnders without the misery\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fans gather in Melbourne at a listening party for Taylor Swift\u2019s new album, \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019, which was released on Friday. Photo: AFP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Taylor Swift launch.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Fans gather in Melbourne at a listening party for Taylor Swift\u2019s new album, \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019, which was released on Friday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On August 12, Taylor Swift revealed the cover and title of her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. The following day, Dublin Airport\u2019s official Instagram account posted a picture of Dubby the hare, the airport\u2019s mascot, in a sparkly orange jacket with the caption \u201cSparkles, departures, the life of a ShowHARE\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Why is Dublin Airport\u2019s mascot a hare? What does he have to do with Taylor Swift? Who thought that caption even made sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans lose their minds whenever Taylor Swift releases new music, and it\u2019s no wonder: her songs are like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,7250,337,973],"class_list":{"0":"post-103702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-madonna","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-taylor-swift"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}